Posted on 01/28/2023 3:15:17 AM PST by Morgana
The stepfather of Tyre Nichols has called for criminal charges against the paramedics who appeared to stand by after he was savagely beaten by police, while two deputies who responded after the altercation also face investigation.
Released on Friday, video of the January 7 incident in Memphis shows at least 10 cops and two paramedics milling about casually for nearly 20 minutes as Nichols lies on the ground critically injured. He died in hospital three days later.
'Everyone -- the fire department, paramedics that came out that stood around and didn't do anything -- they're just as guilty,' Nichols' stepfather Rodney Wells told ABC News following the release of the video.
'Everyone that was active in the whole scene, the whole video, should be charged,' he added. Five Memphis cops have already been charged with second-degree murder.
Meanwhile, the sheriff of Shelby County, which includes Memphis, said that after viewing the video, he is suspending two deputies who responded to the scene following the beating, which began with a traffic stop.
Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said in a statement: 'Having watched the videotape for the first time tonight, I have concerns about two deputies who arrived on the scene following the physical confrontation between police and Tyre Nichols.'
Bonner said he had launched an internal investigation into the two deputies, adding that they had been relieved of duty pending the outcome of the probe.
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the killing and beating were way too much and they didnt seem to care they all had body cams.
otoh, blacks taking care of their own problems...thats a positive thing. one less thug that terrorize the neighborhood..
btw... Whos got. "tyre was a well known drug dealer"?
ehats fedex have to do eith it?? breanna was an emt... fired for stealing drugs and a mule for her b.f. but she was an emt...
Are they?
Been on a scene where we sand around waiting for the person to lose consciousness.
Can’t treat someone who refuses care. And she has refused care.
As soon as they stopped him, they began screaming at him. They never even asked him for ID - they just pulled him from the car, and then the ass beating began. He freaked out and ran off. The fat asses were upset they had to run, so they beat him to death. You can see it on video when the cop with the ASP loses his s4!t runs over, yells to the others to give him room and cracks the guy in the skull and then beats him repeatedly with the ASP.
There's at least four cameras that show them working this guy over for no reason.
you can also see where the guy is leaned against the car with a split wig and slumps over. They sit him up and slumps over the other direction. They just left him there against the car bleeding from his skull.
I don't care how much someone supports the police - this was beyond uncalled for....
Who stoked the cops into beating a man to death? That’s where it starts. That’s what needs to stop. Instead of worrying about the reaction the next time the cops kill somebody maybe worry about why we all know there’s going to be a next time.
He had a good job. He had a clean record. He wasn't a deadbeat gang member.
I don't know what your dangling reference to "breanna" is. His mother's name is RowVaughn Wells. Citation needed.
There’s a don’t give a shit attitude about people being murdered everyday by thugs released and out of prison. Media totally ignores it.
Well if they were totally ignoring it you wouldn’t know about it. And really the two are not mutually exclusive. We can understand that murdering cops are a problem AND that some bad guys shouldn’t be released.
Well if they were totally ignoring it you wouldn’t know about it. And really the two are not mutually exclusive.
Sorry, that doesn’t wash with me. I don’t see cops carjacking old ladies, men or women, or stabbing them in their garages, beating elderly people to death in their own homes, to steal a few dollars. (well, they do that so it’s always a “burglary”, instead of being racial as it really is. Cops also didn’t jump me in the FQ, or kill a friend of mine in the 1980s, attack my grandmother, or beat my uncle over the head when he was closing up his small, Latino market, or invade my elderly father’s home.
All five of those guys sure did.
Umm, you’re on a thread where cops literally beat a man to death. So actually yes you do see it.
So here’s my thinking....was there a shortage of cops there? Are these guys really trained cops? Or were they hired in the midst of a cop shortage?
Perhaps these guys really were thugs and not cops.
hmmmm.....from February 2022:
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/02/15/memphis-police-seek-to-add-300-officers/
Like I said, were recruitment efforts negligent in some way? Were these guys even qualified?
A 29 year old, fully employed black man with no criminal record is unlikely to be a drug dealer. That would make him a statistical anomaly and/or a criminal genius.
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