Memphis: Tyre Nichols died three days after being beaten by police at a traffic stop where he resisted arrest. The biased media and leftists blamed structural ‘white supremacy’ in policing for Nichols’ death, yet five black police officers were involved in the beating and were arrested. Larry Elder explains that police are concentrated in black communities because there is more crime. Blacks comprise 13% of the population, yet commit almost half of all homicides, and most homicide victims are black. Elder stated that the lies of police racism is getting people killed because it is altering the behavior of the police officers and it also alters the behavior of the suspects who resist arrest. He said that virtually all of recorded police killings could be avoided if suspects do not resisted arrest.
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UPDATE: The attack appears to have been targeted as Officer Demetrius Haley — who was fired from his job after the killing — took two photographs of the critically injured Nichols driver on his personal phone, according to a state document. he texted the photo to five people. Read full article here: https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/memphis-cop-demetrius-haley-texted-photo-of-bloodied-tyre-nichols-after-beating/
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Summary by JW Williams
Memphis, Tennessee: Tyre Nichols, 29, an unarmed black man, was pulled over for reckless driving, resisted arrest, failed to follow commands to lay on his stomach, sprang up and fled on foot, and police chased him and struggled to take him into custody, according to an analysis by Police Tribune. The article noted that at one point, there was a sudden shift from the officers holding Nichols and they began quickly striking him. It’s unclear from the video what prompted the sudden change among the officers. A third officer pepper-sprayed the suspect and Nichols began screaming for his mother.
The video showed the suspect continued to twist and fight the officers and Nichols lunged for one of the officer’s holstered guns at two minutes and four seconds into Video No. 3.
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Another officer kicked Nichols in the head several times. The assault increased and two more officers joined in the assault on Nichols.
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Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said there was no video evidence to support the officers’ claims of Nichols’ reckless driving. However, she failed to explain that Memphis police cars are not equipped with dashcams and that bodycam video supported the officers’ version of how the traffic stop initially unfolded.
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The five police officers have been fired, arrested, and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault-acting in concert, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of official misconduct, and one count of official oppression.
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The SCORPION Unit, Street Crimes Operations to Restore Peace In Our Neighborhoods, established in 2021, was permanently disbanded. A former Memphis police officer, who asked that his name not be used due to the sensitivity of the situation, told CBS News the SCORPION unit’s training consisted of three days of PowerPoint presentations, one day of suspect apprehension training and one day at the firing range. The SCORPION Unit made 566 arrests and seizing over $103,000 in cash, 270 vehicles, and 253 weapons after it was created, which some critics found to be excessive and a red flag for problems.
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Many sources in mainstream media, politicians and academia blamed the death of Tyre Nichols on a system of violence based on white supremacy, despite the fact that the officers who beat Nichols were black. Lawyer and commentator Larry Elder countered this premise by asking why police forces should be diverse and reflect the community if race doesn’t matter. He said that the goal should be to have good cops. Mr. Elder said that none of the cops involved in the beating had more than three years of experience. He suggested that the Memphis Police Department could have retention and recruitment problems, due in part to Black Lives Matter discrediting the police. This may have led to Memphis lowering their standards when hiring new officers.
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Mr. Elder said that police target black communities because there is more crime there. Blacks comprise 13% of the population in the US, but commit almost half of the homicides in the US, and most victims are black. In the largest counties in the nation, blacks account for 60% of the shootings and 60% of the robberies.
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 61,000,000 contacts with police in 2020; the police killed 1000 people, which is 0.002%. Almost all of those killed were resisting arrest, usually with a gun or knife.
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Mr. Elder stated that over the past 5 years, police killed 39% more unarmed white people than unarmed black people. But the media is silent on the deaths of white people. Elder quoted the author of a study and said that a young black man, between the ages of 10 and mid-30s, is 13 times more likely to be murdered than a young white man, and almost always the murderer is another black man.
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Elder said that the lies of police racism is getting people killed because it is altering the behavior of the police officers and it also alters the behavior of the suspects who resist, especially young black suspects. He said that virtually all of the police killings could have been avoided if the suspects had not resisted arrest.
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UPDATE: Officer Preston Hemphill, a white policeman, pulled Nichols from his car, Nichols ran away, and Hemphill chased him and tasered him. Hemphill was recoreded saying, “I hope they stomp his ass.” Hemphill was not present at the second location where Nichols was beaten. Hemphill has been relieved of his duties.
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UPDATE # 2: Former Phoenix police officer Brandon Tatum revealed that Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis was fired from her position as Chief of the Atlanta Police Department because she was over a unit that was investigating a crime in which her friend’s husband was suspected of having sex with “50-something kids, minors, I believe it was minors and he ended up going to prison for it. But because she was trying to cover it up, and it wasn’t for the FBI investigation, or the federal government investigation, they would have never found out that this guy did that because she was covering it up.” Davis was fired. Tatum wnet on to say that due to affirmative action, Memphis Police department needed a black face and they hired Davis, who he described as a “degenerate, allegedly”. The same Deputy Chief of Atlanta Police Department who resigned, took the SCORPION Unit model that was used in Atlanta, over to Memphis. Tatum said that from the top down there are problems with Memphis PD. Watch video here: https://youtu.be/38vsWCv7Ikc?t=106
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Police Tribune: https://policetribune.com/bodycam-shows-memphis-cops-beat-tyre-nichols-as-he-resisted-arrest-went-for-cops-gun/
ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/US/tyre-nichols-timeline-investigation-death/story?id=96695791
Information Liberation: https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63570
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The US is too often returning to an us vs them tribalism. People are so blinded by their anger that they see all violent acts being done by the other tribe, not their own, even when they define their tribe by color. This insanity is even in the mainstream media.
I agree with Larry Elder’s take on why the black man was handled so roughly; he ran away. Chris Rock has told his black brothers to just sit still in the car with your hands on the steering wheel and you will live. Those who run away usually are guilty of a previous crime. But here is my question: What did the young man say to the police to “piss them off”? We never hear about that. Same with George Floyd; what drugs were in his system where he could not stop moving?
It shouldn’t matter what this man did. Resisting arrest shouldn’t carry a death penalty. The article says Nichols reached for one of the officers guns. I watched all 4 videos and I didn’t catch that. I’m not saying that it didn’t happen. But for Heavens sake. There were 5 of them and only one suspect. It doesn’t matter to me that all of the officers and the suspect were black. No one deserves to be treated like this IMHO.
Keep calm and quiet and pay attention to what a policeperson says or asks when one is stopped is of paramount importance. Do not argue and do not display an attitude, regardless of your race or that of the policeperson. Be respectful, even if what the police say doesn’t make sense. Try not to drive at night too far from your home neighborhood.