Posted on 01/28/2023 8:05:55 AM PST by Round Earther
About 8:24 p.m. Officers confront Tyre Nichols at a traffic stop. Officers stop Mr. Nichols at the intersection of East Raines Road and Ross Road and push him to the ground. As officers wrestle with him, Mr. Nichols can be heard saying, “I didn’t do anything.”
The Memphis Police Department initially said that Mr. Nichols had been stopped on suspicion of reckless driving. However, the Memphis police chief, Cerelyn Davis, said in an interview with NBC that the department had not been able to confirm why Mr. Nichols had been stopped.
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“the department had not been able to confirm why Mr. Nichols had been stopped.”
If only he had actually stopped. He’d be alive today.
Story is behind a paywall
Timeline.
Black on black violence doesn’t fit the narrative.
Memory hole it!!!!
Who gets stopped by the police for an alleged motor vehicle offense and ordered out of the car? What happened to: "License, registration and insurance, please."
Get out, put your hands behind your back, keep your mouth shut and you might get out alive. DO NOT FIGHT THE COPS ON THE STREET. In court you may win. On the street, not so much.
The only exception to asking for license and registration would be a felony stop.
That would be determined by looking at the license plate of the car and checking on the computer to see if the car was stolen or the owner of the vehicle had outstanding warrants.
But—if those two came up negative then you are correct—they should be asking for the driver’s license, vehicle registration and vehicle insurance.
Of course if the driver refuses to provide those all bets are off...
The police started the whole thing in a confrontational way. They didn’t even tell him why he was being stopped. So apparently Tyre got scared and ran. That’s no excuse for beating him to death.
Who would want to be a police officer today ?
This is a generality of course BUT
when many good cops are leaving the quality of those applying
for positions is going to decline
Come to think of it; the same can be said for the ‘woke’ military.
Five large men should be able to very quickly subdue a thin man like Nichols without mercilessly beating and kicking him to death. The failure to have emergency personnel treat him immediately is also inexcusable. Those EMT’s should be arrested and prosecuted, or at the very least fired and never able to work again in that capacity.
Prosecute the officers to the fullest extent of the law.
It’s pretty apparent that we are not getting all the facts
I’m sure the MSM is turning over every stone looking to see if any of the five officers were Trump supporters. That idiot Van Jones was on CNN blaming this on racism. The left can’t allow the images of five rogue BLACK police officers beating down a black officer be the real story so they have to somehow add a white racism narrative to this.
I had 50+ encounter with Chicago patrol cops. Zero problem with police brutality.
Yup, although my uphill neighbor is an LEO. Perhaps if this were a bigger town he wouldn’t be. Even though it is run (into the ground) by dems, it could be slightly worse than it is now.
I agree the officers were way out of line.
That said it would be helpful to know the full context of the traffic stop.
From a poster at another website:
“I can’t vouch for this, but there is someone claiming that they know a Memphis cop who said that the victim had slept with one of those cop’s wife and it was payback that went too far.”
“many good cops are leaving the quality of those applying
for positions is going to decline”
Yup—this is what is happening, particularly in the US third world big cities.
Most good cops have moved to the leafy suburbs where the locals are friendly and the perps are mostly teens who partied a little too hard.
You can see it in the body language of the cops in the suburbs—very friendly, very relaxed.
I disagree. All Tyree needed to do was NOT resist orderes by cops. Chicago cops are some of the most corrupt. I was stopped 50+ times in 37 years working in Chicagom. I was always polite and the cops became friendly after observing my behavior.
He did stop when the cops surrounded him. The charge of reckless driving so far appears to be something that came up AFTER the stop and beating.
There is so far nothing to substantiate this charge.
That’s been circulating on Twitter.
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