Posted on 01/28/2023 12:25:29 AM PST by Morgana
Memphis cops on Friday night released footage showing the events leading up to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Horrific footage showed the moments he was stopped by police, him fleeing, then the vicious beating when they caught up and the lack of medical care.
Five officers involved in the January 7 incident have been charged with second-degree murder, and fired from the force.
CJ Davis, the well-respected Memphis police chief, said she had never witnessed anything so devastating in her policing career.
Meanwhile Benjamin Crump, an attorney representing the Nichols family, said Nichols was treated like 'a human piñata'.
The four clips - three from body cameras, one from a surveillance camera attached to a post - have shocked and angered America.
Here DailyMail.com breaks down the footage from start to finish - from the moment he was pulled over to him slumped next to a cop cruiser as EMTs watched on.
At 8:20pm on January 7, Nichols, who was born in Sacramento and moved to Memphis in February 2020, was driving home from a suburban park, where he had taken photos of the sunset.
He was driving along East Raines Road in south eastern Memphis when he encountered the police. One officer said he was 'cutting through traffic'.
'So we just try to get him to stop. He don't stop,' an officer told his colleagues, in the body camera footage. 'Hit the siren. Stop stop stop.
'Then he drove around, swerved like he gonna hit my car. 'So then I'm like - *******.
'He pull up to the red light. Stop at the red light. He put his turning signal on. 'So we jump out the car. '**** went from there.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What if he had just cooperated with the officers?
Yes sir, No Sir, How can I be of assistance Sir, Hands on the steering wheel sir, but....no, he didn’t do any of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflGwyWcft8
You really think the police don’t look at you as the enemy and want to kill you?
Because those pig devils dragged him out of the car.
If that’s the case, then which ever cops did that need to be charged with murder as well, if they already aren’t.
The thing that is puzzling, though, is that reports are from what I read, that the EMTs were just standing around laughing as well. If they had really wanted to help the guys, I would expect different behavior from them, like being agitated, pacing, arguing with the cops, etc.
Didn’t know that.
I know...you are right on about the “response.”
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