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Tyre Nichols - guyofthetiger - 01-28-2023 This guy was killed by 5 police officers in Memphis. All are black including the police chief. The officers were arrested and charged with second degree murder. I watched the video and they beat him to death. This makes the police look bad and there will be protests. Some are claiming it was racist even though only blacks were involved. IMO the officers violated many protocols and let anger supersede reality. This will take a while for police to overcome. RE: Tyre Nichols - GMDino - 01-28-2023 (01-28-2023, 04:03 AM)guyofthetiger Wrote: This guy was killed by 5 police officers in Memphis. All are black including the police chief. The officers were arrested and charged with second degree murder. I watched the video and they beat him to death. This makes the police look bad and there will be protests. Some are claiming it was racist even though only blacks were involved. IMO the officers violated many protocols and let anger supersede reality. This will take a while for police to overcome. I did some tweets wondering why these officers were arrested and charged faster than say, almost every other officer involved in a job related death. But I did not watch the video so I'm going to assume it was pretty brutal for this to happen so quickly. RE: Tyre Nichols - Dill - 01-28-2023 (01-28-2023, 04:03 AM)guyofthetiger Wrote: This guy was killed by 5 police officers in Memphis. All are black including the police chief. The officers were arrested and charged with second degree murder. I watched the video and they beat him to death. This makes the police look bad and there will be protests. Some are claiming it was racist even though only blacks were involved. IMO the officers violated many protocols and let anger supersede reality. This will take a while for police to overcome. Yeah, Guy, the news media are treating us to a range of responses and diagnosis to this. On the liberal side many, like Van Jones and Al Sharpton, see this as a problem of police culture informed by racism. But the response by Memphis' black female police chief looks decisive--fire the officers involved immediately and arrest them for manslaughter. Release the video as soon as possible, if that is what the family wants. Such action, signaling justice might be trending in this case, may prevent the kind of rioting which followed Rodney King, George Floyd, and others. We'll see. On the right, diagnosis runs quite a different direction. On Tucker last night a black conservative blames the whole mess on black men raised without fatherly authority and a police department run by a woman. Tucker thinks there is obviously no racism involved because it was blacks killing a black. Hannity sees it otherwise. Racism IS the cause, he says, but by that be means "REAL" racism--i.e., Blacks and liberal civil rights activists who still "see racism everywhere." Both Tucker and Hannity showed segments of the beating, but spent most of their time on impending protests and an Antifa flyer calling for people to gather and attack police buildings in New York. "Who is behind Antifa?" Tucker asks. "Why don't we know?" A Hannity guest laments the difficulty of hiring police officers now days, given the public criticism of police for killing unarmed men and women. An ex-policeman, his focus was mainly on flagging the lack of leadership on the site of the beating, and raised questions about the wisdom of a "scorpion squad." Unarmed Ashli Babbit was "murdered" by Capitol police (as she was breaking through a door at the head of a violent mob in the Capitol seeking to execute Pelosi and Pence) and no one suspended the killer or released his name. Double standards and liberal hypocrisy. It will be interesting to see how these narratives develop, complicate, and conflict in the wake of the video release and, eventually, the trial of the killers. RE: Tyre Nichols - Nately120 - 01-28-2023 (01-28-2023, 01:37 PM)Dill Wrote: On Tucker last night a black conservative blames the whole mess on black men raised without fatherly authority This is rich coming from a show that legally claims that no one should take it seriously, yet has more influence over white people than their own fathers likely ever had. Sounds like white folks have a primary issue within the home if they look towards a someone like Tucker to form their realities. RE: Tyre Nichols - samhain - 01-28-2023 Saw the video. it's a shocking level of violence for a pretty extended period of time. Idk all of the details, but I wonder what caused these officers to escalate things to that level. Reckless driving doesn't seem to warrant that kind outburst. I don't get it. It doesn't seem like he was a dude that was overly difficult to subdue. Why would that many officers just snap like that all at once? They had to know someone would eventually see the video. RE: Tyre Nichols - Housh - 01-28-2023 I can’t even watch these vids anymore Glad to see they all were immediately charged with murder RE: Tyre Nichols - Vas Deferens - 01-29-2023 (01-28-2023, 06:11 PM)samhain Wrote: Saw the video. it's a shocking level of violence for a pretty extended period of time. Steroids. It’s a huge problem in most police force’s in the country, especially large ones. These dudes need to be tested on the reg. RE: Tyre Nichols - Leon - 01-30-2023 just awful. God give the family strength though this time. RE: Tyre Nichols - Belsnickel - 01-30-2023 I follow an influencer who is a former cop and very much a defender of police actions. I don't necessarily agree with him all of the time but I appreciate his point of view. Even he was talking about how the charges were the correct thing to do. These cops were absolutely in the wrong. I do want to comment on the discussion around the racism commentary occurring in this situation, though. There have been people discussing the actions of these cops being rooted in racism and, as a result, mockery occurring from some segments because the perpetrators and the victim were all black. What is missed in this discussion is that racism is a systemic issue that produces these sorts of mentality. Because the officers were in a position of authority that power dynamic exists as a result of these racist attitudes and policies. That all being said, these officers will also likely be victims of the racist systems in this country as there is zero doubt that they will face harsher reactions from the courts and the public than white officers would face. RE: Tyre Nichols - CKwi88 - 01-30-2023 (01-30-2023, 09:04 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I follow an influencer who is a former cop and very much a defender of police actions. I don't necessarily agree with him all of the time but I appreciate his point of view. Even he was talking about how the charges were the correct thing to do. These cops were absolutely in the wrong. Can't wait to see the media's portrayal of these officers when compared to an officer like Chauvin. RE: Tyre Nichols - CJD - 01-30-2023 You know a police murder is bad when even conservatives are calling it a murder. RE: Tyre Nichols - GMDino - 01-30-2023 (01-30-2023, 03:33 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Can't wait to see the media's portrayal of these officers when compared to an officer like Chauvin. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sixth-officer-relieved-duty-tyre-nichols-death-memphis-police-say-rcna68192 Quote:A sixth Memphis police officer has been relieved of duty after the traffic stop that led to Tyre Nichols' death earlier this month, police said Monday. RE: Tyre Nichols - GMDino - 01-30-2023 (01-30-2023, 04:22 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: You know a police murder is bad when even conservatives are calling it a murder. For the most part. There are still excuses being made. Whitlock blamed the fact that the police chief is a black woman. Quote:During an appearance on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Jason Whitlock, host of the “Fearless” podcast, said the actions of the five Memphis Police Officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols were a reflection of the breakdown of the family. Tucker himself says white people are the real victims.
RE: Tyre Nichols - Dill - 01-30-2023 (01-30-2023, 04:55 PM)GMDino Wrote: For the most part. There are still excuses being made. That's been a talking point of black conservatism for decades-- Black men need to step up and control their women. Stop all the whining about "racism." |