Body-cams and the Tyre Nichols killing

 

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/on-the-news/tyre-nichols-video-memphis-releases-police-body-cam-footage/A8527C8B-5764-405C-BE77-9271DF89A27F

 

I trust everyone has seen the body cam footage of the horrific inhuman treatment Tyre Nichols. The importance of body cam recordings in this case are critical in showing how this killing of another black man being stopped by unmarked police vehicles for no apparent reason. We only see one body-cam in the initial stop turned on. One officer had his camera fall off and one officer did not turn his camera on. But one can see the brutality in the first stop by officers from a special crime unit named the Scorpions.

Tyre managed to escape the beating from the first three officers at the traffic stop, only to be tackled at another location closer to his home. The five officers who beat Tyre at the second location, just 1000 yards from his home, were fired and charged with second degree murder. Questions surrounding the other police officers who were there are still unanswered as of today. We did learn that the one white officer (Preston Hemphill) at the first traffic stop is heard saying in the video, “I hope they stomp his ass” was relieved of duty Jan 7^th and the other officer there has not been identified yet, or charged.

Today we leaned from the Globe, the Memphis Fire department dismissed 2 EMT technicians and 1 Lieutenant. An investigation determined that all three violated “multiple policies and protocols”.

And just a few hours ago we learned that the police reports filed by the officers that were there don’t match what was captured on video.

I suspect there is much more information the cops know and aren’t releasing the information. One thing is very clear to me is that the black police chief is going to lose her job and many high-ranking officials will as well. Every officer that was there should be charged criminally for not intervening. How a group of vigilante cops can operate with no supervision is criminal.

And today our FPD issued a statement on the Tyre Nichols death.

https://patch.com/massachusetts/framingham/framingham-police-disturbed-video-tyre-nichols-death?utm_term=article-slot-1&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter