Posted on 01/28/2023 3:49:08 PM PST by Morgana
One of the five Memphis officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols was the president of the Mississippi branch of a scandal-ridden fraternity.
Tadarrius Bean, 24, who was fired over his role in Nichols' brutal beating, served as the head of the Omega Psi Phi's Eta Zeta chapter at the University of Mississippi, according to his LinkedIn.
Although the fraternity boasts its more than 100 year history as a haven for black college students, it has been at the center of several hazing incidents in recent years.
One chapter in Virginia was suspended after members were found beaten and forced to pour hot sauce on their genitals, while two other members in a New York chapter were arrested for paddling a man's testicles up to 200 times.
Bean and the four other officers involved in Nichols' death continue to be scrutinized after a series of videos revealed the extent of their actions when arresting the 29-year-old and ignoring his twitching body as lay dying.
Founded in 1911 at Howard University, a historically black college, Omega Psi Phi champions itself as a fraternity 'on the front line, leveraging its power, influence and more than 100 years of commitment to the uplift of our people and our communities.'
But like many frats, Omega Psi Phi has been plagued with several scandals regarding abuse and hazing towards new members.
In 2019, a Virginia chapter at Old Dominion University was suspended for five years following an investigation into disturbing hazing incidents.
Members of the Tau Lambda chapter were found to have beaten prospective members, forced them to drink hot sauce and pour it on their genitals to simulate having Sexually Transmitted Disease, The Virginian Pilot reported.
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Sadism is addictive.
With our open culture, it is spreading.
So, the masochist said to the sadist, "Please beat me!".....the sadist said, "No!"
My university had several fraternities that were associated with college of studies. I was about to pledge the agriculture frat, Alfalfa Grabba Hoe, until I learned you had to milk a bull to join.
Yes, but not for all society in the form of riots.
Since many? Of the offenders are black there may be less hell raised. Hard to claim racism isn’t it? Justifiably I mean.
The thing that bugs me about hazing is what it says about the recruits, who know what’s coming, but chose to ignore it. Reminds me of all of the Ukrainians flags people display - they know what the end-game will be if Ukraine is somehow successful (nuclear exchange with Russia), but they choose to ignore that too.
boys will be boys until its not funny anymore....
“I have always wondered what it is about these fraternities that make them so attractive and worthy to join, that an applicant would willingly go through these torture and humiliation…”
Frats and soroities are all about buying your friends. I would not give 2 cents for those kind of fake people.
This “fraternity” brands its pledges. Had an acquaintance that was branded twice. And yet because it’s a black fraternity, universities won’t do anything about it.
Navy Divers used to have some pretty kinky hazing rituals for newly minted divers, too. Very sexual, very strange, very nasty, from what I gathered. My first husband was a Navy Diver. He wouldn’t tell me what the hazing was, but I knew a couple of them that dropped various hints over the years, and... some men are very strange people.
This also looks like the electrical engineering symbol for ‘resistance’.
They are certainly not engineers and certainly know zero about ohms.
No, but it would have an obvious double meaning, being a Black Power symbol as well as the symbol for being the End of Things.
He should have been buried behind the frat house.
That is so sick.
There is definitely an undercurrent of homosexuality.
This is what happens when you can’t get good people to want to be cops. You have to take what you can get.
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