Posted on 02/08/2023 1:30:46 PM PST by Morgana
One of the five Memphis police officers charged with brutally beating a black man to death took photos of his bloodied body and sent it to at least six people.
Newly released documents revealed the lengths of misconduct the Memphis police officers displayed after they stopped Tyre Nichols for allegedly driving recklessly - a claim for which no proof has been provided - before mercilessly pepper spraying him, tasing him, and then beating him to death when he tried to escape their assaults.
The files show that Officer Demetrius Haley - who first forced Nichols out of his car - shined a flashlight in his victims face after he had been handcuffed and propped limply against a squad car, then took a photo with his personal cellphone.
Haley then sent that image to six people, including a pair of police officers, department employee, and a civilian acquaintance.
The documents were part of a review of the violent arrest, which found the officers involved behaved in a 'blatantly unprofessional' manner, even 'bragging' about the beating after it took place.
By taking and distributing the photos, Haley blatantly violated police protocol requiring confidentiality in arrests.
It also flew in the face of rules prohibiting officers from using personal cellphones during interactions.
Those violations were the least of their infractions, however, which started when Nichols was forced out his car without being told why, or later that he was being arrested.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The dept apparently lowered its hiring standards, and IIRC the “cops” had gang ties
+1
And so very important! I wonder how many people were killed in Chicago this past weekend?
It’s everybody’s problem when the cops decide they can do what they want.
Where’s the “George Floyd” outrage here? This incident is far worse than that one.
As they say in England, “Was that an automobile Tyre, a lorry Tyre, or a bus Tyre?”
Demetrius Haley’s future does not look good during his upcoming time in prison. Cop killing an innocent black man will not set well with the other inmates.
You’re a pitwit.
Yeah, we know you belong on stormfront, thanks for sharing.
Of course when Conservatives call for the cops to be found guilty, they’ll say that, ‘they are only saying that because the cops are black’, you watch.
But they didn’t want any body cam video ... nasty stuff.
She was an ex, why did the cop care? Unless, Tyre was WHY she was an ex.
Yep. I posted the same thing on another thread about a week ago and was chastised/penalized by the moderator for it because there were a few virtue-signaling FReepers that were offended by my comments which were essentially the same thing I will state below.
In no way was this murder justified or acceptable, but when you make former gangbangers into cops, you get “street justice” (’hood justice, ghetto justice, gang justice, etc.)
Again, I said it before and I’ll say it again, this was not some innocent and non-affiliated dude from the ‘hood that was arbitrarily or randomly singled out for a beating. He was from the ‘hood and did something verboten by ‘hood standards and received ‘hood justice as a result.
I don’t agree with it, but I don’t make the rules in the ‘hood either, and sure as heck fire don’t agree with turning gang bangers into cops. Not a good idea.
“We need a police force that more closely matches the culture of the neighborhood”. Pardon the generic quote. It looks like Memphis got what they wanted.
This was definitely personal. They targeted him and then wanted to send him a message. This is horrifying.
This is conspiracy and premeditated murder. Pure and simple.
A couple?
So far seven officers on the scene plus these two new ones plus a department employee. Ten bad eggs in one department?
That is not a couple of bad officers. This is a police department where the culture is down right criminal.
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