Posted on 01/27/2023 7:53:14 PM PST by Morgana
The Memphis Police Department has released harrowing bodycam footage of five police officers fatally beating Tyre Nichols following a traffic stop for purported reckless driving.
The video released on Friday night shows Nichols, 29, crying out for his mother multiple times during the brutal January 7 assault, which took place just a few blocks from his home.
'Mom! Mom!' screams Nichols as he is pinned to the ground by multiple officers, pepper sprayed in the face, kicked and punched in the head, and struck with a metal baton.
The video shows police rained at least nine blows down on the FedEx worker while screaming profanities throughout the nearly four-minute altercation.
Even after paramedics arrived, a handcuffed Nichols remained slumped over on the pavement for nearly half an hour without significant medical intervention.
All five officers involved in the killing were charged with second-degree murder, with the district attorney saying that though they all played different roles, 'they are all responsible.'
Still, police across the nation were bracing for potential violent unrest as protesters gathered to voice outrage in response to the graphic and highly disturbing footage.
WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND DISTURBING CONTENT
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Then it would be suicide by cop?
“Maybe a military police holding cell in an Antartica weather station. Maybe.”
Why? Because with all the “global warming” Siberia is too warm these days?
Maybe Siberia’s out. Probably like the old Miami Beach now.
So let the prisoners drift by on the broken off Arctic icebergs with the polar bears. Compete for fish with them.
The 5 of them could have a circular firing squad and me done with it
thanks. as well they should
He was on his way home from working at fed ex. Here they do drug screens while hiring.
Also most fed ex jobs require good health and lifting tests.
Definitely no felon history allowed.
DM = Daily Mail...I get it.
Thanks.
Under one of the stills, there’s a note that there were at least 8 cops during the first beat down...and one was a white guy we didn’t see in the 2nd beat down.
I get a better count in the 2nd beatdown looking at the overhead cam video starting @ about 4:24 Looks like 7. No emts on site yet...
Which ones are the white cops again?
Yes, there had to be a white cop who started it all and egged on the poor victimized black cops.
How does he get away from three cops to begin with?
If these cops are convicted of murder, then publicly execute them to restore confidence in the system.
That being said, people often find themselves in situations where they pray a cop comes along. Anyone stranded on the side of the road in a sketchy area at night is grateful to have a cop come along, and anyone needing immediate first aid after a traffic accident is as well.
Don’t lump the militarized cops in these urban areas with the cops many of us deal with.
Not necessarily. What happens when you get several cops on you is that they'll shout conflicting orders, one yelling to put your hands up and the other yelling to put your hands behind you. Then they attack, yelling "Stop resisting!" and beat the crap out of you. And I think it's on purpose, so that later they can testify that you were non-compliant.
Yeah, those are not cops.
That’s a gang who simply got paid to wear badges.
I don’t understand why we are still hearing about racism....black on black and still we hear about racist!!!
Soros money in action and not just in the states he’s a hard core one world order loco.
That's a good one.
Why not? They are the same ones that enthusiastically enforced every covid 'mandate', no matter how silly.
Cops are NOT on our side, by and large.
Here in northeastern NJ I saw no involvement of cops in COVID mandates; if laws are passed they have no choice but to enforce them (that is a problem with the concept of a police force itself). My main problem is when there is selective enforcement (for example, ignoring theft and such while targeting the normals who do pay their tickets - just for revenue).
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