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A Timeline of Tyre Nichols’s Lethal Police Encounter
NYT ^ | 1/27/23 | lexander Cardia, Jason Kao, Christoph Koettl, Eleanor Lutz, Anjali Singhvi and Robin Stein

Posted on 01/28/2023 8:05:55 AM PST by Round Earther

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To: Steely Tom

Look at how those officers were dressed. If they had pulled you over and immediately began dealing with you in an aggressive manner, would you assume they were real cops?


41 posted on 01/28/2023 9:24:25 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: entropy12

Your experience isn’t relevant in this matter. NO ONE deserves what those cops did to that man. They murdered him because they could. That’s what’s relevant.


42 posted on 01/28/2023 9:25:01 AM PST by carton253 (Jesus is everything.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Between macing themselves during the encounter I couldn’t help but notice, the one cop with the asp had to take several ‘fat boy’ breathers when the mace got to him. And he is the officer strutting and literally bouncing all over the scene as the beating is happening. Hi adrenalin activity beating an unarmed man to death.


43 posted on 01/28/2023 9:26:03 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: aumrl
Who would want to be a police officer today ?

Exactly. Nobody.

A sensible person would not want to get anywhere near such a situation. You may want to serve, you may be a good person, but who wants a job where facing violent situations is a requirement of the job? Who wants to have media and politicians itching to campaign against you? Who wants the Feds as your dark Lord and political master?

The response will be: Well, just be a good cop. You will have nothing to worry about.

My answer to that is: Yeah, right. There are much better jobs out there, where you face none of these risks.

44 posted on 01/28/2023 9:27:17 AM PST by PGR88
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To: entropy12
Watch the initial stop carefully.

At one or two points in the timeline after they removed him from the car, you can hear one cop yelling at him to lie face-down on the pavement while another cop is grabbing him and turning him onto his back.

It may turn out for these cops that their best defense in court will he to claim that they aren’t guilty because they’re retarded baboons.

45 posted on 01/28/2023 9:29:13 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: entropy12

If you’re white, that’s not shocking. The black men are the ones murdered by cops day after day.


46 posted on 01/28/2023 9:31:09 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: TheDon

If five police officers can’t subdue one belligerent man without killing him, there is something very wrong with their training.

Why should their department procedures be the only standards they are judged by? Aren’t there any legal standards for police work? Can a police department have any standards it wants?


47 posted on 01/28/2023 9:32:48 AM PST by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: Alberta's Child
Who gets stopped by the police for an alleged motor vehicle offense and ordered out of the car?

I did once by a black state trooper.

48 posted on 01/28/2023 9:36:05 AM PST by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: carton253

My experience of being stopped 50+ times by corrupt Chicago cops has some relevance. I am not even a US born white person. I was born in south Asia with a brown skin.

However I do agree that thin man Tyree could have been subdued in less than 5 minutes by 5 burly cops. Tyree must have said something to the cops to cause them to go postal.

I was on a jury in solid republican Dupage county in Illinois. The accused man was a frail 70+ year old dude. The charge was possesion of illigal drugs and assaulting the cops. The 3 cops involved were in court. They were each over 200lbs, and young. I voted guilty on drug possession charge because the conficated evidence was right there in court. But I refused to vote guilty on assault charge. All other jurors voted guilty on all charges. We kept voting again and again and the result was same. After 10+ votes, I just got tired as it was already very late evening and I relented with the majority of jurors. I have regreted that vote ever since.


49 posted on 01/28/2023 9:36:24 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: cgbg

This is what happens when qualifications are disregarded and diversity drives hiring.

Hoodrats just changing gang colors and everyone is surprised they still act like hoodrats


50 posted on 01/28/2023 9:37:52 AM PST by slapshot ( - Get woke go broke-)
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To: napscoordinator

You need to look at the stats.

The number of black men killed by cops is stunningly small.


51 posted on 01/28/2023 9:40:14 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Alberta's Child

yeah

this thing is not adding up


52 posted on 01/28/2023 9:41:33 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: entropy12

NOTHING could have been said that would justify what those cops did. They MURDERED him.


53 posted on 01/28/2023 9:43:32 AM PST by carton253 (Jesus is everything.)
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To: aumrl

California enacted SB 960 allowing illegal aliens to become police officers.


54 posted on 01/28/2023 9:46:39 AM PST by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: Round Earther

I haven’t watched the video carefully yet, but a part I did see shows the suspect on the ground and surrounded by cops. Still, one of the cops is leaning towards him and continually spraying pepper spray into his face.


55 posted on 01/28/2023 9:49:18 AM PST by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: cgbg

To be honest, one death by cop is too many.


56 posted on 01/28/2023 9:50:34 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: entropy12

Initially he DID comply. He got loose and fled when it became apparent the cops were in full “kick ass” mode.

That said, if he had rolled over on his belly and been cuffed - or TOLD to roll onto his belly instead of being to to “get on the ground” when he WAS on the ground, things would not have escalated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0M8uu65Epw

But they had enough men that one man could have done nothing but hold an arm, and one hold each leg, and another cuff his hands behind his back. If I had been the guy, I would have been in fear of dying.

Sometimes cops are bad. This is NOT like George Floyd! This was insane. They got frustrated and went into judge, jury and executioner mode. And that MUST be punished!


57 posted on 01/28/2023 9:52:01 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: napscoordinator

Perfection is just not going to exist in the real world.

If you are uncomfortable with that then go join Antifa or BLM and riot to your heart’s content.


58 posted on 01/28/2023 9:53:25 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Round Earther

Reason for the traffic stop : driving while black! Oh wait.


59 posted on 01/28/2023 9:54:53 AM PST by deener
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To: Alberta's Child

The laws are different in every state. Police CAN and DO ask people to get out of their cars. Sometimes pulling them out if they refuse.

Have you never watched COPS, LIVE PD, On Patrol LIVE?

On Patrol LIVE is currently running NEW content LIVE on PHILO with a REELZ rider. You need BOTH.

I have NEVER missed an episode of all three!

REAL reality TV.

Body Cam and other shows like it are good also.


60 posted on 01/28/2023 9:56:52 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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