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'They're just as guilty': Tyre Nichols' stepfather calls for charges against paramedics who failed to aid 29-year-old for 20 MINUTES before finally tending to him as he slumped on the ground - as two more cops suspended
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 28, 2023 | Keith Griffith

Posted on 01/28/2023 3:15:17 AM PST by Morgana

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To: exPBRrat

They were telling him to “Get on the ground!”

But he was already on the ground.

Did they really mean, “Lie face down on the ground” or “Lie down on your belly”?

If so, might they have said that instead?

They seemed perfectly willing to go into verbal intimidation mode, more or less immediately, but not willing to be specific about what they wanted him to do.

Then at some point with Tyre continuing to turn his head around like an owl, protesting verbally, but not quite physically, multiple officers went into physical intimidation mode. But they obviously never effectively restrained him. So the physical violence, again, seems to have been intended to motivate him to become mentally and physically submissive, and then voluntarily assume a face-down or belly-down posture on the pavement.

Instead he got scared, physically escaped their tender physical ministrations, and ran.

For that he had to die?


21 posted on 01/28/2023 5:06:32 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: exPBRrat

He was young and had never planned out in his mind how to conduct himself if one or more seemingly roided-out police officers were to stop him and jump ugly with him for no apparent reason.

He had never happened upon Chris Rock’s sage advice. And wow did he pay a price for choosing unwisely.


22 posted on 01/28/2023 5:12:07 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: rellic

Agreed.


23 posted on 01/28/2023 5:17:29 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: exPBRrat

“If Tyre just pulled over and cooperated he would still be alive. What was he running from?”

assuming that’s true, it’s still not a death sentence offense by being beaten to death ...


24 posted on 01/28/2023 5:21:44 AM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: exPBRrat

When I see the unmarked cars and the aggressive manner of the police officers from the first moment of their interaction with the guy, I wonder if perhaps he suspected they weren’t police officers, but were there to carjack him.


25 posted on 01/28/2023 5:25:42 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child

I agree that there has to be something missing here. I have also heard that he may have been dating one of these guys ex girlfriends.

Who knows? There has to be some other reason why 5 large guys could not cuff one smaller man without feeling the need to beat and brutalize him.


26 posted on 01/28/2023 5:32:06 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Morgana
A non-threatening citizen who doesn't fully cooperate with the police, does not give police the right to shoot him or beat him to death.

Jackbooted thug cops need to be prosecuted, jailed and when appropriate - executed.

27 posted on 01/28/2023 5:33:05 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: exPBRrat

We have no way of knowing what you say is true. We also have no way of knowing why 5 men used this kind of force on an unarmed man.

Was there another reason these guys were after this guy?


28 posted on 01/28/2023 5:34:31 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Morgana

They’ll be getting some supervisors too. Chief is safe, of course, she learned from Atlanta.


29 posted on 01/28/2023 5:36:48 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Alberta's Child
I wonder if perhaps he suspected they weren’t police officers, but were there to carjack him.

That's been happening in downtown Memphis lately.

30 posted on 01/28/2023 5:44:15 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: exPBRrat
If Tyre just pulled over and cooperated he would still be alive. What was he running from?

I don't blame him for running -- he was close to his mother's house. And they were brutalizing him. He almost made it.

31 posted on 01/28/2023 5:47:45 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: zipper

The kid didn’t have a record. He was a FedEx employee (had a real job).


32 posted on 01/28/2023 5:48:42 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: JesusIsLord

“Jackbooted thug cops need to be prosecuted, jailed and when appropriate - executed.”

Look up 18USC242. If the Feds want to they can charge these cops and if they’re convicted ask for the death penalty.

And get it.

L


33 posted on 01/28/2023 5:51:03 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Morgana
Ah! How all the race baiters (Crump Sharpton et al) gravitate to Memphis just as the Rats they are.
34 posted on 01/28/2023 6:03:18 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Ikeon

Most important: 6) Understand that the cops enjoy hurting and killing people. They are out looking for an excuse.


35 posted on 01/28/2023 6:06:47 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Ikeon
I know what you are saying but that doesn't give the police the right to beat you to death. The physical part of the confrontation should have ended when the guy was subdued and cuffed. Everything the cops did after that was wrong. I'm 100% for law enforcement. My family has been in law enforcement over 40 years but that was not law enforcement.
36 posted on 01/28/2023 6:08:25 AM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: kenmcg

The media wants their big story in the middle of winter, and democrats need a distraction. So they’re going to pour gasoline on it.


37 posted on 01/28/2023 6:10:02 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: AppyPappy

That’s my suspicion. Perhaps the “Scorpions” are on the take.


38 posted on 01/28/2023 6:12:15 AM PST by CTyank
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To: DannyTN

It’s pronounced am-bah-lance
forming a P is just too time consuming


39 posted on 01/28/2023 6:13:46 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: sumuam

Well maybe if these people started doing their damn jobs. Really the don’t give a shit attitude of everybody we put in uniforms is what’s causing this. They don’t care. People die. And they still don’t care.


40 posted on 01/28/2023 6:16:07 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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