Posted on 01/26/2023 12:06:02 PM PST by grundle
It sounds to me like he DID have a reason to be scared! Look at his picture, he wasn’t a large person. Every single one of the 5 cops was much bigger than him.
All were driving unmarked cars. He may not have even known they were cops. The story I hear is they pulled in front of his car and cut him off and then mass descended on him, which made him run.
In Memphis a lot of people drive 20 mph over the speed limit.
If you have to go through there on the interstate DO NOT try to drive the speed limit. At least 10 mph more.
One time I tried to see how fast a gasoline truck was going down I-40. I was on my motorcycle. Once I hit 90 mph I got scared and it sped away.
BTW Nichols did not have a criminal history. He moved to Memphis to work at FedEx.
In Atlanta everyone drives fast. If you’re doing the speed limit on I285 you get run over.
I still haven’t heard of the cause of death yet, whether it was related to the beatings (direct trauma), induced by them(heart attack due to stress), or unrelated(congenital problem or drugs).
The beating sure sounds out-of-bounds, though.
My understanding it was a traffic stop that he refused to stop at, then was pepper sprayed and ran off. It was about 100 feet (or less) from his parents home, where I believe he lives.
Still, traffic stops shouldn’t end in death.
commit second degree murder while their bodycams record the crime
Which means they were NOT in plain clothes - or least some of them were not.
Atlanta has been that way for years. Even on Sunday afternoon.
I don’t know what happened just read the lead in - but nothing really deserves a ‘savage beating’. These are supposed to be trained professionals. Five cops should be able to restrain one scrawny kid and put him in cuffs without pummeling him for 3 minutes.
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