[Morgana]

In this DM article they break down the whole 5 minute beating of Nichol from beginning to end.

Those officers are going to be Dahmerized in prison.

[heartwood]

Police rehearse their stories, so they are all telling the same one.

[pepsionice]

I would have drug-tested these cops at the end of the shift. Too much energy expended...they were ‘lit-up’ on something.

[Revel]

A big long headline that is designed to start riots. Let me fix it:

“How Tyre Nichols was beaten to death By five black Cops in FIVE MINUTES: Sickening footage shows 29-year-old being pulled over, escaping then being punched, kicked and tazed - as one officer shouts: ‘I’m going to baton the **** out of you’”

[Openurmind]

Here is a perspective. The only reason this is a big deal is because it was caught on video. It begs the question... How many times does it happened and there is no video?

[newnhdad]

Imagine what would have happened if he complied the very start?

[Lean-Right]

Right, wrong, or indifferent, this guy
resisted arrest even though he may have
been innocent. Such resistance will
be met with what ever force required
to neutralize the situation by the cops.
I’m certainly not condoning the police
efforts to bring this citation under
control.
Being a cop is a thankless job,
especially during present political
atnosphere.
This guy’s name came up on the police
computers for a reason. He broke the law.
He wasn’t some poor dude just
driving down the street, minding
his own business.

[Caipirabob]

Welcome to Memphis 2023: Where when Memphis cops aren’t pulling trains on each other, they’re committing gang style murder.

[dennisw]

Just leave whitey, honkies and Caucasians out of this. BTW these five police were on the Scorpion squad that got 500 criminals off the Memphis streets. Memphis is a rough place.

[exnavy]

All these folks are same race, same hood. Keep this crap local.

[fruser1]

Interesting how, once they get the cuffs on, all the cops stop hitting and back off.

Maybe that’s what they were really trying to do all along.

[Maris Crane]

Is it possible that the way Tyre reacted to a simple stop...was ...unusual? Why did he RESIST so much. That is unnatural. A person would just stop fighting the police for a simple stop, unless he had other reactions on his mind.

[EBH]

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.'

So where is this dashcam footage? Any footage I have seen from inside the cruisers does not have any sound? Where's the dashcam?

[Apparatchik]

I’ve often wondered what would happen if you just gave up and handed badges and guns to thugs and street criminals.

Now I know.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

From the description this is 3 Stooges level policing reflecting masterful training, first class recruiting, and awesome leadership. What a disgrace.

[TalBlack]

Looked at the vid. These cops lives are over. Irrespective of what happened before the vid we see, the compliant placating tones the soon to be dead guy used and the fact of five men on him damns them all. All they had to do was cuff him and put him in a car. Even if he is resisting…five guys? Done deal. THEY are the ones who were screaming and out of control, the entire time.

[ConservativeInPA]

These pigs should hang.

[M.K. Borders]

I don't care what the situation your in is, be it bank robbery or jay-walking.

When you are confronted by Police who are in an excited frame of mind. Yes you can tell.

LAY THE HELL DOWN! On your stomach, arms streched forward beyond your head, palms down. Ignore all commands, say nothing. Go limp. If the officer wants your hands behind your back, let him put them there. If the officer wants you up in the sitting or standing position, let him put you there.

If the officer wants to beat you, you will not survive whether you resist or not. So make sure he does not survive either.

[al_c]

Sucks that this guy died … and the cops shouldn’t have done that. But honestly, the beat down of Randall Worcester looked more sickening that this beating. But no outrage over that, I guess.

[Pete Dovgan]

When I was a young child, my parents and grandparents told me that this is what happens to you if you resist arrest. There were no body cams or videos, and the police always would get their story in. I am not black.

Black officers locally tell their kids the same thing my family told me. You resist arrest and they will beat or kill you.

What the police did here on video, when they had subdued him, is basically murder. 50 years ago nothing would have happened to them except a cursory questioning because there were no cameras everywhere.

I believe what you are seeing is not new to our time, or a locality, only seen and recognized because of video and internet. Yes, it’s murder. Yes, it’s been happening a long time. Physically fighting police and resisting arrest is a dangerous game. If you value your life, do what they tell you, so your family doesn’t become millionaires without you.

Anybody have ideas of how to prevent these events in the future, because ‘defunding the police’ is stupid. Perhaps laws that protect police if they are physically assaulted, they cannot be liable for death and damage, or education so that people know that being under the influence and attacking police is essentially suicide? Can this be fixed?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like Memphis hired gang members to be cops.

I am not being sarcastic.