You would never see a white treat a white criminal like this it is so sad that Willie Lynch still lives in the heart of black people. A horrible video shows in former Memphis Police Officers’ eyes – Tyre Nichols life didn’t mean crap. There were kicks to the head, multiple punches to the face, tasers, pepper spray or mace, and body blows with a metal extended baton. To talk about this is Houston NAACP President Bishop James Dixon, president of the Harris county Afro-American Sheriff’s Deputies League Smokie Phillips, Judge Mike Fields, and criminal defense attorney Oliver Brown.
It took 26 minutes for a stretcher to appear at the spot where Tyre Nichols was slumped over on the ground after a Memphis police officer was first seen appearing to kick him in the face.
That was according to one of the four videos authorities released Friday night capturing the brutal assault on 29-year-old Nichols, who was pulled over during a Jan. 7 traffic stop and was dead three days later.
The footage showed four vantage points: Three videos were from officer body-worn cameras and one was from a police surveillance camera mounted on a pole. The videos depicted Nichols being punched, struck with a baton, seemingly kicked in the face, and sprayed with an irritant. They also captured him crying out for his mother and saying he was trying to go home.
And they appeared to show the police’s aggressive, chaotic, and at times inconsistent demands of Nichols — like demanding he provides his hands while his arm was being held and he was being pulled to his feet. They also appear to show police punching him as he is being held.
New York City’s police commissioners and top officials at law enforcement agencies across the country expressed shock and anger at the treatment of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police.
Reacting after body camera and other video was released Friday evening, NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said she and her department were outraged.
“The disgraceful actions depicted in the released video are an unequivocal violation of our oath to protect those we serve and a failure of basic human decency,” Sewell said in a statement.
Other police chiefs, sheriffs and mayors also weighed in. Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz called the officers’ actions horrific. “What happened to Tyre Nichols should not have happened,” he said.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said in a video that he was ashamed and angry. “As law enforcement, we take an oath to protect and serve. The actions that day broke, violated and tarnished that oath,” he said.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said he was disturbed and heartbroken.
