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5 Police Officers Involved in Tyre Nichols Beating Death Charged with Murder
The 5 police officers involved in the beating death of Tyre Nichols have each been charged with second-degree murder ... as the public awaits the release of video from the fatal beating.www.tmz.com5 COPS CHARGED WITH 2ND-DEGREE MURDER... After Fatal Beating
all booked into the Shelby County Jail in Memphis Thursday on a variety of charges -- including second-degree murder, official misconduct, official oppression and aggravated kidnapping.
Tyre Nichols
What a bunch of idiots.Oh this is just classic...what do you suppose blacklivesmatter would say...let's check it out.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols
January 27, 2023
D’Zhane Parker, a Board member for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation released the following statement regarding the video footage released of the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police Department:
“Tyre should be alive today. He mattered to everyone except those upholding state-sanctioned violence and a dangerous cycle of white supremacy. Tyre was overwhelmingly loved by his community, family, and friends. He’s described as a Mama’s boy who looked forward to his Mama’s homemade chicken with sesame seeds. He loved skating since he was 6, and used photography as a creative outlet. Experiencing sunsets was a major part of what he adored about experiencing life.
Today, our community is grieving another beautiful Black life stolen by state-sanctioned violence. There continues to be a consistent failure of our current public safety model to protect Black lives and communities. We are tired of traffic stops becoming death sentences. We deserve a system that prioritizes holistic, health-centered, community-driven approaches that will help advance true public safety. We continue to be devastated by the current system that prioritizes punishment, harm, and criminalization.
Five police officers brutally beat Tyre to death. Although the media has spent a great amount of time drawing attention to the fact that the police officers are Black, as if that is important, let us be clear: ALL police represent the interest of capitalism and impel state-sanctioned violence. Anyone who works within a system that perpetuates state-sanctioned violence is complicit in upholding white supremacy. Assimilation into a system that is anti-Black is one of the most dangerous weapons stemming from white supremacy.
This moment affirms what we’ve known all along: Reform doesn’t work. Incremental progress is too slow. Diversifying a police department will not work. No police department, no matter how diverse, can ever overcome the reality that it is a direct descendant of slave patrols. Police will never keep our communities safe. Our call to defund the police includes ending traffic stops for minor traffic violations and removing police from traffic interactions.
We are in solidarity with Tyre’s family as they seek accountability and uplift their demand that the city of Memphis disband the “special” crime unit that murdered their loved one. Black Lives Matter will continue to push for an abolitionist approach to public safety that moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work.”
About Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) creates avenues to center Black life by decolonizing philanthropy. Rooted in the belief that the arts are essential for our liberation, BLMGNF was collectively built by Black people for Black people. We inject simplicity into how we contribute dollars without depleting resources from the organizations we assist. BLMGNF is accountable to Black people and each other, and it is a radical foundation that serves all of us. BLMGNF is a hub for Black liberation.
"moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work."
Where are these places that "work"??
if ever there was a race predisposed to criminality, it is these africans..
sad, because if they give up crime, they are also known to achieve great heights in the world of athletics and sports
becoming scientists and doing intellectual stuff is beyond them, but that's ok ... they more than make up in track and field medals, marathons, rap music and etc
Will this criminal versus Indian store workers get a racial angle when it’s covered on the news? The camera man was asking the thief to pass him a swisher cigar and telling the clerks to just claim it on their insurance. Instead the thief got an @ss whoppin.
Let’s see what the lawsuit from this looks like.
Some thieves have gotten so brazen that they literally think they can roll up and someone won’t snap on them. Good on the clerks for doing what had to be done with the right amount of physical violence necessary. This beating will ruin this punk @ss’s rep on the streets if this doesn’t go to court.I couldn't even listen to the clown talking lol! Little did he know giving instructions hahaha. Dingleberry. That was definitely a can of woopass!