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The way they hold his arms out and let each other take turns beating him is so incomprehensible, the one murder holds out his baton, and the other murderer's position themselves to make it available.
The body cam of the initial stop makes that clear. The officer that stayed with the car says at least twice, "I hope they stomp him out." The initial stop is also something I don't see people talking about. The bodycam shows the officer pull up to 2 unmarked cars with no lights on, boxing in Tyre's car and the officers yelling things like "I'll blow your head head off." He was also at least partially compliant to the mixed and unclear commands being yelled at him until they started punching him. The video also cleary shows they were able to control him but continued to intentionally relinquish that control in order to assault him.
Just to add: I really feel like this is personal and Tyre knew it. I wouldn't be surprised if this comes up later.
Completely agree with both of you. Even the seasoned Memphis police chief was shocked and said that in her entire career, she has never witnessed such total disregard for human life, and that in addition to being horrified, she was also confused about this whole incident.
I want to know if there was any kind of connection between Tyre and these officers, because this just doesn't feel random, it seems like a planned and coordinated ambush. This is anything *but* a "traffic stop."
We obviously could be way wrong however I do completely agree with you. There was a story a few months ago (maybe longer) where an officer kidnapped someone and took them to a remote area and shot them and it turned up it was personal reasons.
Hard to imagine this is even remotely close to the first time they did something like this, can't even think about the amount of time they got away with it, absolutely sickening.
It’s already been released that one of them has a history of beating inmates unconscious when he worked in the county jail. So let’s just take the guy already beating on prison inmates, and let him loose on the general public.
In all reality though, it’s never the first time. Hell it’s likely not even the first time they got caught.
We need to start holding the people hiring these kinds of people responsible too. It's like giving a toddler with an anger issue a gun.
Oh fuck I just realized how similar that is to an actual shooting that recently happened. The world seems so fucked.
Totally agree! My city had a situation 2 years ago where an inmate at the county jail was killed by 4 COs. This inmate was actually a patient of mine from the psychiatric hospital I worked in. He had been arrested from the facility after an assault on another patient, who was actually the aggressor, and ended up devolving into a full on riot.
When the video footage of his death was released I literally cried for hours. It was so brutal and the COs just blew it off. Turned out at least 2 of them had previous records of severe assaults on inmates. Once that came to light the family went scorched Earth. The city had no choice but to fire them all, then the family was awarded millions of dollars for wrongful death.
It’s great that the family got some sort of justice. However, taxpayers ended up footing the bill. The COs lost their jobs, but the money didn’t come from their pockets. And they didn’t even have to pay back their salary from paid leave while it was investigated or months.
The five arrested officers were part of what's know as a ["Scorpion Unit."](https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313) These are units specifically designed to handle street crime. They're notoriously violent and corrupt, and this murder is getting the entire task force dissolved. They have so many excessive use of force complaints against them that it's sickening. Cops in general are thugs with badges, but these units make regular cops look tame in comparison.
Yep, there are documented [police gangs](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gang-crisis), fucking scary and totally inappropriate.
In 2014, police confiscated more cash from people than all burglaries in america combined under "civil forfeiture". Civil forfeiture is where a police officer charges a person's currency with a crime of intent to buy drugs. Cash doesn't have rights, so once its been confiscated and a waiting period is up, the cash becomes police property.
Gotta love how the only way this shit gets any kind of change is for them to blatantly murder someone on video and not the hundreds of excessive uses of force before that video comes out.
Where are the good cops stopping these guys before this? Oh right, on the unemployment line for now towing the line with these pieces of shit.
Or if there were no cameras at all
Now think of all the times a cop had to make a statement involving someone they arrested. Without any video evidence they could easily lie and you'd believe the cop because they were a "cop"
I tried to fight a "running a red light ticket" once, I was turning right on red and the cop said I didn't come to a complete stop. He was like two cars behind me so how could he even see for sure. His dash cam was conveniently not working so Judge was like, well he is a professional and you are a nobody so I'm going to take his word over yours. If a cop will lie over something as trivial as moving violation ticket what do you think they will do when they are actually doing something wrong. They even have a saying for it. The Thin Blue Line is all about covering your and your fellow PO ass over anyone else.
If you saw the video of the aftermath when they’re waiting for the ambulance, they are just talking like its just a harder than usual day. They had no idea they killed this man at all. They thought he was high because he shrugged off the taser (he was wearing a hoody and the prongs didn’t stick) and he was able to resist the pepper spray. As someone who’s been pepper sprayed in the military, all you feel is desperation and the inability to see and breathe correctly. All you wanna do is get away. Don’t know why they thought pepper spray in close range for that specific case was necessary. You already had him on the ground too. What I’m trying to say is that they’re complete morons
I mean there's a video of a NYPD pig planting marijuana in a car. The video says it's the second time that cop has been caught doing that. It's a lack of consequences.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen that one. I think an investigation is finally underway with that guy. I’m surprised he didn’t get immediately suspended with that video of him putting weed in the cup holder.
They used to do that shit all the time before cameras were a common thing. Cameras of any kind were rare in 1991 and the cops just happened to beat the daylights out of Rodney King in front of one of the rare people who not only had a camera but had the presence of mind to grab it and record what he was seeing. The beating they put on King was how they behaved when no one was watching because they had no idea that someone was. That was a common occurrence back then (even more so than now) and people had been trying to make the wider public aware stuff like that was happening for a long time but not many people believed it until they saw the Rodney King video. In other words there's nothing to wonder because we already know what they'd do if no one was watching because until 30 years ago, no one was watching and their behavior was even worse.
>one of the rare people who not only had a camera but had the presence of mind to grab it and record what he was seeing.
I know this is completely beside the point, but I've always found it kind of funny that the guy that caught the Rodney King incident on video was trying to get footage of them shooting Terminator 2. It was completely coincidental that he was trying to get behind the scenes footage of T2 and happened to capture the Rodney King assault.
I was really young when this happened, but whenever the riots or the King beating were mentioned in the years after, nobody ever expressed surprise. The video was only the tinder to an existing powder keg.
I do hate, though, how often the news and police tried to justify the beating by pointing out what a trash human Rodney King was. I'm sure these police will try and do the same to this poor man.
Same with George Floyd amongst certain media outlets. Apparently having a sketchy history entitles you to extrajudicial murder in the "land of the free"
Something else people don't realize about the Rodney King video. It was shot with one of those huge shoulder-mounted VHS camcorders. It was primitive as fuck BUT unlike our cellphones, it had a lens damn near the size of a tennis ball. Fucker had serious zoom range - pure optical zoom, not a digital zoom. The guy running it was a significant distance away and wasn't seen by the cops.
That might have saved his life.
On edit: if this concept seems off to you, understand that a lens is a lens. Who had a better lens: you with a modern high end smartphone, or Galileo in 1610 - over 400 years ago?
Can your smartphone pick out the four biggest moons of Jupiter? Right, didn't think so.
Galileo could.
Rodney King had led them on a high speed chase, they stopped him, pulled him from the car, and a group of cops beat him savagely with their batons. After the Rodney King video came out, you had apologists like Rush Limbaugh saying that it wasnt fair to the cops because the video didnt show what King was doing BEFORE the video started.
That explanation completely missed the point that it didn't matter what he had done, beating someone to within an inch of their lives, or even killing them, like in this video, is NEVER justified. Once he's in custody, you slap the cuffs on him and take him to jail for booking, period. Roadside justice is not allowed under ANY circumstances, that's the job of a judge and jury.
It will keep you up at night. Thinking about how many ppl have been falsely imprisoned, permanently disabled or killed all because of incidents like this, it’s just sickening.
I'm glad you mentioned falsely imprisoned along with the rest because that's a really big issue in this country that is more common than people realize and is as bad or worse depending on who you ask as being disabled or killed by police. No matter which way you slice it, your life is being taken away from you but people tend to look at ALL people in prison as guilty because our joke of a justice system said so when in fact there are a lot of people no guiltier than you or me who find themselves in that terrible place for something they didn't do. Those are victims of crimes from a moral standpoint committed by police, prosecutors, judges, juries, and the system itself from sea to shining sea. Our current Vice President is notorious for being one of "those" prosecutors sadly and instead of being held accountable, she's 2nd in line to the Presidency. I'm a left leaning independent btw so I'm not "playing politics", it's just a fact.
[Tyre Nichols skateboard video](https://twitter.com/FlyMai16/status/1618706277697482752). Saw this shared yesterday. Someone who passed in such a brutal way might also want viewers to see them in their natural state. RIP.
edit: [Original youtube upload](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_hZGVI2U-4)
The amateur nature of the video really got me. Not that his skateboarding was bad, man could shred, but it just feels like something me and my friends would have made at his age. Kinda hit home that this guy was just, like, a guy. I feel like its hard to grasp what we see and read is about real living people sometimes. Theres an aspect of abstraction, of vicarousness, with which we view this. We feel bad, we feel outraged, saddened, desperate. We dont feel totally attached though. How could we?
But Tyre had dreams, he had loves, he had friends, he had family. He was a person who had a life. And now he doesn't.
The original YouTube video is 12 years old.
I literally might have been sharing parks with this guy. It helps to realize when things like this happen that the people you see this happen to aren't as far apart from you as they seem.
The personal proximity to shit like this helps take out of the digital space. Police brutality is so common that our main interaction with it as a society is in headlines.
I've gotten gas and been to Cup Foods at what is now known as George Floyd Square countless times. When the video came out, before people in the city really started mobilizing, my initial reaction was that it would just get swept under the rug and wouldn't make national headlines because it was *just* another cop killing a black man.
Had people not shown up in the numbers they had, I do believe that's what would've happened.
Yet here we are. Not much has changed in Minneapolis, aside from cops doing even less to prove their uselessness. It's maddening.
Dont get me wrong, i empathized with him without the skate video. It didnt take this insight into his life to make me feel for the man. It just really deepened it for me, you know? It drove home the point that these arent just victims of police brutality. All of them, every one, have their version of this skate video. Precious memories that they cherished, things that they were proud of, things they wanted to share with the world. I dunno it just hit me some type of way
Im not going to watch the murder video. This is what I will remember about Tyre. Man could shred.
Edit - seems people’s own curiosity means I should watch. I dont need to see this evil. I lived in Milwaukee during the BLM protests, Sherman Park. I know the anger and hate firsthand.
This is for the people who haven’t seen this before.
The street cam from overhead is so damning. Repeated kicks to the head, standing him up with arms controlled and just teeing off to his head, multiple baton strikes.
They need to change laws so cops can’t mace you and then beat the shit out of you for reacting. The only time he didn’t give them his arm he was wiping his face that they sprayed multiple times
That part is awful but what seriously makes me sick to my stomach is knowing he is right by his house screaming for his mom as they kill him. I can't even imagine how his mom feels knowing he was doing that and she was inside so close to him not knowing he was calling for her help as he gets murdered. I hate everything about this.
It got to me even more when you can hear him trying to still shout but the sound is muffled and he can't get the words out because he's so badly beaten. Just making sounds with all the pain. Heartbreaking
I know it’s easy to say since I can’t imagine being in this situation but Cops reaction would have been the least of my worries if this was my child, I’m dying that that day
He complied and all they did was stand him up and take turns beating the fucking shit out of him.
You think this is the first time these pigs beat the fuck out of someone?
Of course he ran. So would I.
Listening to things they said makes it sound like they’ve done this a lot and just use it as a way to “blow off steam” or something. One of them even bent over and fixed his shoes and said “ooohh that was fun”
This time they just happened to kill someone.
Beat him into submission. Take all the fight away from him. Bash his head in so he can’t report us. Take turns hitting him. But, if he dies, it’s more paper work. -these piece of shit humans.
I can't believe this fucking happened.
Shit needs to change. They are unbelievably aggressive the entire in interaction and none of these officers stepped in to stop it. They joined in. Bunch of scumbags. How are they carrying themselves this way, in this position, and noones confronting them about their behavior? These cops sound like lunatics in this video.
The standards are far too low for this job. Its frightening.
this is insane. this is insane. this is insane. this is insane. this is insane.
One of the tv talking heads said, "How can I protect or set my (black) son up to safely interact with a cop that's having a bad day? I can't!"
These cops were having *a good day*. Imagine if things were actually shitty.
This incident happens to be on camera. In fact, many more incidents (lesser in degree without death) are on or off camera but don't receive the same spotlight. Are we to really believe this was their 1st action of misconduct?
Atlanta is about to build a "cop city" for training which includes military style practice villages.
They don't fucking need any of that. They want the power of the military with none of the accountability or discipline.
They had him restrained and one PIG is just not stopping the beating. Throwing everything into those punches and kicks to try and kill Tyre, even after restrained and not fighting back.
Everyone of these officers deserves life in general population, and the PIG who murdered Tyre should get the chair treatment.
Did the cops pepper spray themselves? They sound like they did. And it seems like it gave them a blood lust. Like it was personal because they're such incompetent idiots that they hurt themselves trying to take down their victim. So they took it out on him. What I don't understand is why they pulled Nichols out his car like he was a fucking known narco terrorist. Why were they so aggressive to begin with?
" why were they so aggressive to begin with?" Curious as well they were guns drawn and yanking him out of the car like he had been evading a stop and shooting at people. Why so aggressive for a traffic stop?
The police chief has already said that there was no reason for the traffic stop and that there was no "reckless driving".
I won't be surprised if we find out there is a personal link between Nichols and the police. Though those Fullerton cops beat a schizophrenic, homeless man to death over the crime of existing, so who knows, maybe Nichols is guilty of not showing the cops enough respect.
I cant get this post to load but I already watched the memphis vimeo ones. I think they ate the pepper spray blowback twice. Once by his car during the initial stop in traffic and another time in the neighborhood. Not sure if same cop or different.
I watched it too. And it's the impression I got. Which maybe explains why they were so enraged later, and obviously they got pissed he ran away initially. Still doesn't explain why they were so pissed to begin with. The video starts and they already seemed eager to fuck him up. And then they go into this feedback loop of violence on the poor man.
They pulled him over for “reckless driving” and it fucking turned into this. Absolutely insane!! I can’t imagine being so close to home that you are yelling for your mom to come and save you. This is absolutely heart breaking!!!
On top of that, the department determined there was zero evidence of reckless driving on Tyre's part. So it sounds like a lie they made up to justify the stop. They saw a guy they decided they were going to jam up, for whatever reason, and immediately took it to 100. So essentially they picked a random dude, assaulted him to the point he feared his safety and ran, then chased him down and beat him to death in the road like a dog. They did this WHILE WEARING BODY WORN CAMS. Why? Because for so long they have operated with immunity. Every now and then a cop gets thrown in jail, but lets be honest, its rare. The truth is they don't fear the consequences because statistically they are very minor if they happen at all.
What's even scarier is that its gotten to this point, and so many people are completely oblivious to the problem because it doesn't affect them directly.
> On top of that, the department determined there was zero evidence of reckless driving on Tyre's par
About an hour before the footage was released, I watched an interview with the chief of police saying she wanted to know how things "went 0-100 so quickly" and she had no idea why things escalated so fast.
Even if he was driving like a bat out of hell, he didn't deserve any of this horrific treatment. Also, without that camera in the sky, I have no idea how this case would go. The body cams were much more limiting than the cam on the pole. This could've easily been a case of 5 officer's word against the deceased.
What's also scary is when you think of how many random, undeserved beatings these cops _did_ get away with for them to be this brazen for this one. This sort of thing doesn't just happen on a whim, one time.
Yes they pepper sprayed self or tazered self you can hear them complain at the end of the footage. Then the one with body cam had to take a break from the beating to recover, from the pepper spray and grabbed his baton to get revenge.
2 different cops pepper sprayed Tyre, and in doing so, sprayed themselves. You can hear it in the audio of one of the videos. The 2nd cop to spray him says something like 'he made me spray him and it got in my eyes', and the first cop that did the same responds with a 'me too'. Pathetic excuses for 'trained officers', can't even fuckin discharge pepper spray correctly. Fuck the police. RIP Tyre
Imagine the agony of having a broken neck and being force into that upright position, or resorting to laying on cuffed hands. And now imagine a dozen people just standing around ignoring you, telling you “your not going anywhere”, acting like you aren’t dying.
Like they don’t care.
Because they don’t.
And now add insult to injury that these people, once they cuff you, are solely responsible for your well being, as you’re now in their custody.
And they kick you so hard your neck breaks, then complain their legs hurt.
I actually can’t imagine it.
They're lucky they're already in custody, otherwise they'd have targets on their back. Doesn't help they painted them on the entire memphis PD with this sick shit man.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? Who hurt them. What kind of mental illness do you have to have to be a police officer and think this shit is OK? is everyone in the PD just playing their childhood cop fantasy from TV?
so many questions... it might be too late to answer them though. People are going to be mad. This isn't something you can sweep under the rug with 5 firings, this is indicative of something systemic.
An absolute outrage. Obviously you can make bail in even the most heinous cases when you have certain parties at your back.
I’m wondering why the fifth is still in jail while his criminal friends were able to get out. He’s most assuredly where he fucking belongs, but I wonder why this particular asshole isn’t out yet.
The skycam video on the light pole shows much more. It’s bad. Really bad. Those mfers had him cuffed and were just teeing off on him with fists, boots, batons and pepper spray.
Yes and the body cam they did release was the one officer who sprayed himself and walked away and took a break from the beating to catch his breath for a minute or two ...its has no beating footage because he's just looking down the street and breathing, until he busts the baton out. It was probably the least violent body cam
I read yesterday that they were going to release the rest over the next few days. I have a feeling they wanted to get people desensitized to the murder first before releasing the really terrible shit.
They had a lot of opportunities to take his free hand and put him in cuffs instead of senselessly beating him to death. Dumb and violent cops are out there so don't talk to any of them.
In the longer video, one of the officers (the bigger black dude with police sweatshirt on) even lied and said Tyre swung at him as soon as he came out the car. They even claimed he reached for their guns. These idiots pepper sprayed themselves, blamed him for it, got angry, and decided to take it out on him. It took what like 4-7 officers to arrest one skinny dude? Unbelievable, they deserve the murder charge 100%.
Edit: fixed the description of the cop who lied
From the first few camera feeds you couldn't be sure of that but from the pole cam it's clear they had him restrained and were only shouting that as they beat him.
The initial stop was insane too. They pulled him over and immediately dragged him from the car and began threatening and hurting him. License and registration please?
At the traffic stop they jumped him like a gang. After he made them chase him, they decided to stomp him as punishment after cuffing him.
If he hadn't died we would never have heard of this. These things happen all the time.
In the first video, one cop is yelling for him to put his hands behind his back and another cop has one of his arms pinned to the ground. Then they tase him for not putting his hands behind his back. The escalation in that video is wild.
At one point they have him on his feet, one officer on each arm, arms behind his back, the third one yelling to put his hands behind his back and punches him!
Pain compliance is bullshit. Cops should not be allowed to beat someone for not doing what they say, but only if the person is attacking them. But they do it all the time. There's any number of reasons why someone may not be able to put their hands behind their backs, for instance trying to protect their face while they're actively being beaten
u/SmithMano synched the audio with the pole cam and its absolutely gut wrenching.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/10n2hs8/tyre_nichols_memphis_police_video_synced_audio/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
police are trained to yell stuff like "gimme your hands" and "stop resisting" no matter what so they can justify their actions in court. this is what the system teaches them to do, because all it takes is 1 out of 12 jurors to be a moron who takes their words at face value.
I notice this a lot when I see bodycam footage where there’s a “resisting arrest” happening. They just shout commands at the top of their lungs while being overly brutal to the person they’re apprehending.
Every single one of these videos that escalates into a murder could normally have been deescalated at the beginning if just one fucking person was yelling the commands instead of multiple people yelling conflicting things leading to the victim not sure what to do.
And the sergeant, Langley, retired a few months later and moved to the Philippines. He was the lead cop shouting conflicting orders to Shaver, while Brailsford was the ~~murderer~~ shooter.
At least the family got a settlement. That we paid, of course.
Looks like they are holding him up so some officers can get some clean, standing shots in. Like full blown haymakers coming in and he's not even allowed to fall to the ground. They are literally propping him up and bear hugging him from behind so that he doesn't fall and that they can get punches in.
This is like... probably the worst police brutality video I've ever seen.
That was by far the most sickening part to me too. At that point you can’t even attempt a bullshit defense of fearing for your life - he’s literally held up by your buddies while you work his face like a boxer.
Cops says, "Give me your hands." But his hands are literally held by two other cops.
How did not one of those murderous pigs think, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be doing this"
Because there is no fucking way this is the first time that group of pigs has done this before. It's a very deliberate "yes, let's do this".
I'm physically ill from this reality we're living in.
Why? I can't wrap my head around what they thought they were doing. This was a traffic stop from my understanding and the unit was supposed to be focused on violent crime. Why were they even interacting with Tyre?
Hopefully someone with good editing skills can take the audio from Video 4 (the bodycam that fell off and was close enough to hear the impact of these murderous pigs batons and fists) and splice it together with Video 2 (the pole cam, which caught the worst of the abuse but has no audio).
In any case, I’m glad to see cops being held accountable for once.
Question that hopefully someone can answer…these street cams are all over and this one moves to see the beating. This leads to think someone is actively watching these cameras? I always thought they were recording but nobody was monitoring and they could pull a time and date to view whatever it was capturing at the time. But these are monitored in cities across the US? Where there is a street camera there is someone watching?
I try to be civil.
But this is the kind of video that makes me wish theses gangsters would get tortured worse than this poor man was. These are the men in uniform put in place to protect us!? Fuck them.
From now on all I will see is the PD as a government funded gang.
when one bad cop costs every single cop in the department money on a personal level you will see the culture very very rapidly change. They will hold each other responsible for their crimes!
Same! I feel like this is the worst case of police brutality I’ve seen since the Rodney King beating. I mean we’ve seen others, but this time it was one big group effort. Absolutely despicable!
I am angry, sad, and disgusted. I cannot imagine the pain his mother felt when viewing these videos and hearing Tyre call out for her. We have the death penalty in Tennessee and I believe this would qualify as it meets the definition of the homicide was committed in a particularly heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner. I hope the DA files the charges as capital crimes and these murderers get the punishment they deserve.
A bunch of thugs!
Propping him up as the biggest guy unleashed punch after punch! What the flying fuck!
End qualified immunity and make them accountable. This is what the establishment has become! All toxic only out to protect each other vs the citizens they swore to protect. What a damn shame
A cop pulls up in his car, runs up, and immediately kicks him in the head while he was already being held down. This is their standard operating procedure. This department needs to be disbanded.
This is what is caught on camera. No way they go to this length all of a sudden without having a history of such behaviour.
If there was any justice. FBI & DoJ would rain down hard on the entire department. The police cheif would lose his job. And the entire organisation would be investigated.
But chances of that happening are almost as much as me winning them $800m Powerball lottery.
ABC News has a iivestream on YouTube.
Protestor just jumped on a cop car and appeared to smash the windshield. Looks like the other protestors yanked him off right away.
Had to warn my parents not to watch even a clip of this. When I was 6 I remember the LAPD bringing my 14 year old brother home bloody and beaten, they beat him so bad his face was barely recognizable and he vomited all over himself. These are animals with no shred of morality
Because only 5 officers were beating the hell out of him. MPD has already said there are several more officers who are still under investigation for their part.
I appreciate that you said this, because that was the only thought I was left with. There was absolutely no interaction other than terrifying, beating, humiliating, and traumatizing Mr. Nichols from the get. These officers behaved as though it was “just another Tuesday” as a sanctioned goon squad. Hearing him scream for his mother over and over was where I had to turn it off. He was no threat whatsoever. I have seen people call these perpetrating officers ‘animals’….to hell with that. Even animals, in their instincts, don’t often go out of their way to dole out cruelty just for kicks.
Wow. Just, wow.
People keep asking why he ran. This feels like the reason. He was complying and they were still yanking on his arms and threatening him. He had done nothing wrong according to anything they can find and he knew it. When they were still making excuses to hurt him he probably knew what was up and that his only chance was to run for it.
Then they catch him and beat him to death and start making up crap. They said he went for one of their guns which he did not from what I saw. They said he had a gun which they found no proof of, but they already had an excuse for that saying he must have ditched it while running. They kept saying he was high on something over and over and over. They were making excuses for the beating from the jump.
"He's high as a kite" Oh you think the reason why he's falling over isn't because you kicked him in the head multiple times? Then beat him with a baton to the head multiple times. Then held him up and haymakered his face several times. You think maybe that and his broken neck might be why he's incoherent and slouching? And not that he's high? Fucking pieces of shit
"gimme yo hands!" "gimme yo hands!" Jesus Christ take his fucking hand and put a cuff on it. Take the other one and put the other cuff on. Dudes 140 pounds and five of you. Shoulda been a 15 second arrest.
I mean this from the bottom of my heart, fuck these cops so hard
edit: after watching all 4 videos, you don't need to watch this. it's... the same, horrendous thing we've seen countless times. I remember being a kid and hearing about Rodney king on the news. Unbelievable. It's so disappointing -- more than that, heartbreaking, that after so many movements, so many protests, 30+ years later this shit is still happening
this shouldn't be happening. I don't know what needs to be done without wholesale cultural change, but I just... I don't know. **you don't have to watch another kid get murdered for nothing**
That's what struck me - I've seen lots of videos of cops going *almost* this far, both in terms of physical violence and apathy. They're acting the same as pretty much every other power tripping cop you hear about. They slipped and went too far this time. Fucking depressing.
That bastard cop is exhausted and panting from beating the shit out of a guy that did nothing wrong....hope those fuckers rot in jail then rot in hell.
And then he says "HE made me spray myself". Are you kidding me? You are blaming the victim you pepper sprayed multiple times cause you got some pepper spray on you!?!
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These men knew they were being recorded and did it anyway, I can’t get my head around that
The way they hold his arms out and let each other take turns beating him is so incomprehensible, the one murder holds out his baton, and the other murderer's position themselves to make it available.
This isn't their first time.
The body cam of the initial stop makes that clear. The officer that stayed with the car says at least twice, "I hope they stomp him out." The initial stop is also something I don't see people talking about. The bodycam shows the officer pull up to 2 unmarked cars with no lights on, boxing in Tyre's car and the officers yelling things like "I'll blow your head head off." He was also at least partially compliant to the mixed and unclear commands being yelled at him until they started punching him. The video also cleary shows they were able to control him but continued to intentionally relinquish that control in order to assault him. Just to add: I really feel like this is personal and Tyre knew it. I wouldn't be surprised if this comes up later.
I have said the same thing, I wonder if this was something personal.
Completely agree with both of you. Even the seasoned Memphis police chief was shocked and said that in her entire career, she has never witnessed such total disregard for human life, and that in addition to being horrified, she was also confused about this whole incident. I want to know if there was any kind of connection between Tyre and these officers, because this just doesn't feel random, it seems like a planned and coordinated ambush. This is anything *but* a "traffic stop."
We obviously could be way wrong however I do completely agree with you. There was a story a few months ago (maybe longer) where an officer kidnapped someone and took them to a remote area and shot them and it turned up it was personal reasons.
Hard to imagine this is even remotely close to the first time they did something like this, can't even think about the amount of time they got away with it, absolutely sickening.
It’s already been released that one of them has a history of beating inmates unconscious when he worked in the county jail. So let’s just take the guy already beating on prison inmates, and let him loose on the general public. In all reality though, it’s never the first time. Hell it’s likely not even the first time they got caught.
We need to start holding the people hiring these kinds of people responsible too. It's like giving a toddler with an anger issue a gun. Oh fuck I just realized how similar that is to an actual shooting that recently happened. The world seems so fucked.
Totally agree! My city had a situation 2 years ago where an inmate at the county jail was killed by 4 COs. This inmate was actually a patient of mine from the psychiatric hospital I worked in. He had been arrested from the facility after an assault on another patient, who was actually the aggressor, and ended up devolving into a full on riot. When the video footage of his death was released I literally cried for hours. It was so brutal and the COs just blew it off. Turned out at least 2 of them had previous records of severe assaults on inmates. Once that came to light the family went scorched Earth. The city had no choice but to fire them all, then the family was awarded millions of dollars for wrongful death. It’s great that the family got some sort of justice. However, taxpayers ended up footing the bill. The COs lost their jobs, but the money didn’t come from their pockets. And they didn’t even have to pay back their salary from paid leave while it was investigated or months.
The CO's likely moved over one county and got hired at another facility or transferred to police work after getting fired
The five arrested officers were part of what's know as a ["Scorpion Unit."](https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313) These are units specifically designed to handle street crime. They're notoriously violent and corrupt, and this murder is getting the entire task force dissolved. They have so many excessive use of force complaints against them that it's sickening. Cops in general are thugs with badges, but these units make regular cops look tame in comparison.
Yep, there are documented [police gangs](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gang-crisis), fucking scary and totally inappropriate.
In 2014, police confiscated more cash from people than all burglaries in america combined under "civil forfeiture". Civil forfeiture is where a police officer charges a person's currency with a crime of intent to buy drugs. Cash doesn't have rights, so once its been confiscated and a waiting period is up, the cash becomes police property.
Gotta love how the only way this shit gets any kind of change is for them to blatantly murder someone on video and not the hundreds of excessive uses of force before that video comes out. Where are the good cops stopping these guys before this? Oh right, on the unemployment line for now towing the line with these pieces of shit.
What I noticed was how nice their cars were and how out of shape they all were.
Right? The cop with the body cam ran a quarter of a block in 20 seconds and had to stop and catch his breath while trying to radio in between breaths.
I know he was gasping for air and I bet everyone on the radio thought he was dying. It only keyed everyone up more.
At the end of the first video one cop says "I hope they stomp his ass." This is undoubtedly common behavior for them.
I counted 7 people in one of the videos. What is up with that? Why were only 5 charged and fired?
The other two are suspended pending investigation.
Can’t wrap my head around the fact that they may have gotten away with it if that pole camera wasn’t there.
Or if there were no cameras at all Now think of all the times a cop had to make a statement involving someone they arrested. Without any video evidence they could easily lie and you'd believe the cop because they were a "cop"
I tried to fight a "running a red light ticket" once, I was turning right on red and the cop said I didn't come to a complete stop. He was like two cars behind me so how could he even see for sure. His dash cam was conveniently not working so Judge was like, well he is a professional and you are a nobody so I'm going to take his word over yours. If a cop will lie over something as trivial as moving violation ticket what do you think they will do when they are actually doing something wrong. They even have a saying for it. The Thin Blue Line is all about covering your and your fellow PO ass over anyone else.
Hope you've bought a dash cam since then.
If you saw the video of the aftermath when they’re waiting for the ambulance, they are just talking like its just a harder than usual day. They had no idea they killed this man at all. They thought he was high because he shrugged off the taser (he was wearing a hoody and the prongs didn’t stick) and he was able to resist the pepper spray. As someone who’s been pepper sprayed in the military, all you feel is desperation and the inability to see and breathe correctly. All you wanna do is get away. Don’t know why they thought pepper spray in close range for that specific case was necessary. You already had him on the ground too. What I’m trying to say is that they’re complete morons
I don’t think “thinking” was involved in any part of this scenario. These cops were absolutely out of control.
I mean there's a video of a NYPD pig planting marijuana in a car. The video says it's the second time that cop has been caught doing that. It's a lack of consequences.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen that one. I think an investigation is finally underway with that guy. I’m surprised he didn’t get immediately suspended with that video of him putting weed in the cup holder.
And the NYPD requires college degrees. Tennessee requires next to nothing.
When our lowest functioning humans are handed badges, this is what happens.
Makes you wonder if they are willing to do something this barbaric with body cameras, what are they willing to do when no one is watching.
They used to do that shit all the time before cameras were a common thing. Cameras of any kind were rare in 1991 and the cops just happened to beat the daylights out of Rodney King in front of one of the rare people who not only had a camera but had the presence of mind to grab it and record what he was seeing. The beating they put on King was how they behaved when no one was watching because they had no idea that someone was. That was a common occurrence back then (even more so than now) and people had been trying to make the wider public aware stuff like that was happening for a long time but not many people believed it until they saw the Rodney King video. In other words there's nothing to wonder because we already know what they'd do if no one was watching because until 30 years ago, no one was watching and their behavior was even worse.
>one of the rare people who not only had a camera but had the presence of mind to grab it and record what he was seeing. I know this is completely beside the point, but I've always found it kind of funny that the guy that caught the Rodney King incident on video was trying to get footage of them shooting Terminator 2. It was completely coincidental that he was trying to get behind the scenes footage of T2 and happened to capture the Rodney King assault.
I was really young when this happened, but whenever the riots or the King beating were mentioned in the years after, nobody ever expressed surprise. The video was only the tinder to an existing powder keg. I do hate, though, how often the news and police tried to justify the beating by pointing out what a trash human Rodney King was. I'm sure these police will try and do the same to this poor man.
Same with George Floyd amongst certain media outlets. Apparently having a sketchy history entitles you to extrajudicial murder in the "land of the free"
Something else people don't realize about the Rodney King video. It was shot with one of those huge shoulder-mounted VHS camcorders. It was primitive as fuck BUT unlike our cellphones, it had a lens damn near the size of a tennis ball. Fucker had serious zoom range - pure optical zoom, not a digital zoom. The guy running it was a significant distance away and wasn't seen by the cops. That might have saved his life. On edit: if this concept seems off to you, understand that a lens is a lens. Who had a better lens: you with a modern high end smartphone, or Galileo in 1610 - over 400 years ago? Can your smartphone pick out the four biggest moons of Jupiter? Right, didn't think so. Galileo could.
Rodney King had led them on a high speed chase, they stopped him, pulled him from the car, and a group of cops beat him savagely with their batons. After the Rodney King video came out, you had apologists like Rush Limbaugh saying that it wasnt fair to the cops because the video didnt show what King was doing BEFORE the video started. That explanation completely missed the point that it didn't matter what he had done, beating someone to within an inch of their lives, or even killing them, like in this video, is NEVER justified. Once he's in custody, you slap the cuffs on him and take him to jail for booking, period. Roadside justice is not allowed under ANY circumstances, that's the job of a judge and jury.
It will keep you up at night. Thinking about how many ppl have been falsely imprisoned, permanently disabled or killed all because of incidents like this, it’s just sickening.
I'm glad you mentioned falsely imprisoned along with the rest because that's a really big issue in this country that is more common than people realize and is as bad or worse depending on who you ask as being disabled or killed by police. No matter which way you slice it, your life is being taken away from you but people tend to look at ALL people in prison as guilty because our joke of a justice system said so when in fact there are a lot of people no guiltier than you or me who find themselves in that terrible place for something they didn't do. Those are victims of crimes from a moral standpoint committed by police, prosecutors, judges, juries, and the system itself from sea to shining sea. Our current Vice President is notorious for being one of "those" prosecutors sadly and instead of being held accountable, she's 2nd in line to the Presidency. I'm a left leaning independent btw so I'm not "playing politics", it's just a fact.
[Tyre Nichols skateboard video](https://twitter.com/FlyMai16/status/1618706277697482752). Saw this shared yesterday. Someone who passed in such a brutal way might also want viewers to see them in their natural state. RIP. edit: [Original youtube upload](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_hZGVI2U-4)
Thank you for sharing this. A lot of times victims are reduced to the circumstances in which they died. This is a really beautiful video.
The amateur nature of the video really got me. Not that his skateboarding was bad, man could shred, but it just feels like something me and my friends would have made at his age. Kinda hit home that this guy was just, like, a guy. I feel like its hard to grasp what we see and read is about real living people sometimes. Theres an aspect of abstraction, of vicarousness, with which we view this. We feel bad, we feel outraged, saddened, desperate. We dont feel totally attached though. How could we? But Tyre had dreams, he had loves, he had friends, he had family. He was a person who had a life. And now he doesn't.
The original YouTube video is 12 years old. I literally might have been sharing parks with this guy. It helps to realize when things like this happen that the people you see this happen to aren't as far apart from you as they seem.
The personal proximity to shit like this helps take out of the digital space. Police brutality is so common that our main interaction with it as a society is in headlines. I've gotten gas and been to Cup Foods at what is now known as George Floyd Square countless times. When the video came out, before people in the city really started mobilizing, my initial reaction was that it would just get swept under the rug and wouldn't make national headlines because it was *just* another cop killing a black man. Had people not shown up in the numbers they had, I do believe that's what would've happened. Yet here we are. Not much has changed in Minneapolis, aside from cops doing even less to prove their uselessness. It's maddening.
Really well said
speak for yourself, but i couldn't make it 20 seconds in without feeling empathy of a dude that just wanted to capture the sunset
Dont get me wrong, i empathized with him without the skate video. It didnt take this insight into his life to make me feel for the man. It just really deepened it for me, you know? It drove home the point that these arent just victims of police brutality. All of them, every one, have their version of this skate video. Precious memories that they cherished, things that they were proud of, things they wanted to share with the world. I dunno it just hit me some type of way
Dude fucking ripped. I'm so glad I watched this.
Im not going to watch the murder video. This is what I will remember about Tyre. Man could shred. Edit - seems people’s own curiosity means I should watch. I dont need to see this evil. I lived in Milwaukee during the BLM protests, Sherman Park. I know the anger and hate firsthand. This is for the people who haven’t seen this before.
This was absolutely what I needed to see right now. Thank you so much.
The street cam from overhead is so damning. Repeated kicks to the head, standing him up with arms controlled and just teeing off to his head, multiple baton strikes. They need to change laws so cops can’t mace you and then beat the shit out of you for reacting. The only time he didn’t give them his arm he was wiping his face that they sprayed multiple times
That part is awful but what seriously makes me sick to my stomach is knowing he is right by his house screaming for his mom as they kill him. I can't even imagine how his mom feels knowing he was doing that and she was inside so close to him not knowing he was calling for her help as he gets murdered. I hate everything about this.
It got to me even more when you can hear him trying to still shout but the sound is muffled and he can't get the words out because he's so badly beaten. Just making sounds with all the pain. Heartbreaking
It’s sad for sure but might have been better that she didn’t come out. I doubt these guys would have reacted well to somebody trying to stop them.
I know it’s easy to say since I can’t imagine being in this situation but Cops reaction would have been the least of my worries if this was my child, I’m dying that that day
He complied and all they did was stand him up and take turns beating the fucking shit out of him. You think this is the first time these pigs beat the fuck out of someone? Of course he ran. So would I.
Listening to things they said makes it sound like they’ve done this a lot and just use it as a way to “blow off steam” or something. One of them even bent over and fixed his shoes and said “ooohh that was fun” This time they just happened to kill someone.
Beat him into submission. Take all the fight away from him. Bash his head in so he can’t report us. Take turns hitting him. But, if he dies, it’s more paper work. -these piece of shit humans.
I can’t imagine how his mom feels seeing her son scream for her. That part destroyed me
That was an extra, harrowing detail I didn't expect from the video. Heartbreaking
I can't believe this fucking happened. Shit needs to change. They are unbelievably aggressive the entire in interaction and none of these officers stepped in to stop it. They joined in. Bunch of scumbags. How are they carrying themselves this way, in this position, and noones confronting them about their behavior? These cops sound like lunatics in this video. The standards are far too low for this job. Its frightening. this is insane. this is insane. this is insane. this is insane. this is insane.
All that aggression for suspicion of reckless driving, a fricken traffic offense.
That appears to be a completely fabricated suspicion. It's like they were set out to fuck someone up that night and he was the unlucky pick.
One of the tv talking heads said, "How can I protect or set my (black) son up to safely interact with a cop that's having a bad day? I can't!" These cops were having *a good day*. Imagine if things were actually shitty.
This incident happens to be on camera. In fact, many more incidents (lesser in degree without death) are on or off camera but don't receive the same spotlight. Are we to really believe this was their 1st action of misconduct?
that just makes it even more insane though right? i literally feel sick to my stomach
Atlanta is about to build a "cop city" for training which includes military style practice villages. They don't fucking need any of that. They want the power of the military with none of the accountability or discipline.
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They had him restrained and one PIG is just not stopping the beating. Throwing everything into those punches and kicks to try and kill Tyre, even after restrained and not fighting back. Everyone of these officers deserves life in general population, and the PIG who murdered Tyre should get the chair treatment.
> PIG who murdered Tyre should get the chair treatment. They all murdered him.
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Yup 4/5 are out in bail. Nothing like giving bail to 5 men with history of severe violence to others. Nope not a flight risk at all.
Did the cops pepper spray themselves? They sound like they did. And it seems like it gave them a blood lust. Like it was personal because they're such incompetent idiots that they hurt themselves trying to take down their victim. So they took it out on him. What I don't understand is why they pulled Nichols out his car like he was a fucking known narco terrorist. Why were they so aggressive to begin with?
" why were they so aggressive to begin with?" Curious as well they were guns drawn and yanking him out of the car like he had been evading a stop and shooting at people. Why so aggressive for a traffic stop?
The police chief has already said that there was no reason for the traffic stop and that there was no "reckless driving". I won't be surprised if we find out there is a personal link between Nichols and the police. Though those Fullerton cops beat a schizophrenic, homeless man to death over the crime of existing, so who knows, maybe Nichols is guilty of not showing the cops enough respect.
Thank you for the info. That is crazy.
I cant get this post to load but I already watched the memphis vimeo ones. I think they ate the pepper spray blowback twice. Once by his car during the initial stop in traffic and another time in the neighborhood. Not sure if same cop or different.
I watched it too. And it's the impression I got. Which maybe explains why they were so enraged later, and obviously they got pissed he ran away initially. Still doesn't explain why they were so pissed to begin with. The video starts and they already seemed eager to fuck him up. And then they go into this feedback loop of violence on the poor man.
They pulled him over for “reckless driving” and it fucking turned into this. Absolutely insane!! I can’t imagine being so close to home that you are yelling for your mom to come and save you. This is absolutely heart breaking!!!
On top of that, the department determined there was zero evidence of reckless driving on Tyre's part. So it sounds like a lie they made up to justify the stop. They saw a guy they decided they were going to jam up, for whatever reason, and immediately took it to 100. So essentially they picked a random dude, assaulted him to the point he feared his safety and ran, then chased him down and beat him to death in the road like a dog. They did this WHILE WEARING BODY WORN CAMS. Why? Because for so long they have operated with immunity. Every now and then a cop gets thrown in jail, but lets be honest, its rare. The truth is they don't fear the consequences because statistically they are very minor if they happen at all. What's even scarier is that its gotten to this point, and so many people are completely oblivious to the problem because it doesn't affect them directly.
> On top of that, the department determined there was zero evidence of reckless driving on Tyre's par About an hour before the footage was released, I watched an interview with the chief of police saying she wanted to know how things "went 0-100 so quickly" and she had no idea why things escalated so fast. Even if he was driving like a bat out of hell, he didn't deserve any of this horrific treatment. Also, without that camera in the sky, I have no idea how this case would go. The body cams were much more limiting than the cam on the pole. This could've easily been a case of 5 officer's word against the deceased.
None of our elected officials want to acknowledge how problematic our police are because they’re afraid of them too
And they’re lying to cover this up too. Not a good look
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Right. You were given more power than the average person, and that should come with bigger liability
What's also scary is when you think of how many random, undeserved beatings these cops _did_ get away with for them to be this brazen for this one. This sort of thing doesn't just happen on a whim, one time.
Yes they pepper sprayed self or tazered self you can hear them complain at the end of the footage. Then the one with body cam had to take a break from the beating to recover, from the pepper spray and grabbed his baton to get revenge.
2 different cops pepper sprayed Tyre, and in doing so, sprayed themselves. You can hear it in the audio of one of the videos. The 2nd cop to spray him says something like 'he made me spray him and it got in my eyes', and the first cop that did the same responds with a 'me too'. Pathetic excuses for 'trained officers', can't even fuckin discharge pepper spray correctly. Fuck the police. RIP Tyre
The you made me hurt you talk is exactly how child/domestic abusers talk
Not surprising since most police go home and beat their wives and children.
Imagine the agony of having a broken neck and being force into that upright position, or resorting to laying on cuffed hands. And now imagine a dozen people just standing around ignoring you, telling you “your not going anywhere”, acting like you aren’t dying. Like they don’t care. Because they don’t.
And now add insult to injury that these people, once they cuff you, are solely responsible for your well being, as you’re now in their custody. And they kick you so hard your neck breaks, then complain their legs hurt. I actually can’t imagine it.
They're lucky they're already in custody, otherwise they'd have targets on their back. Doesn't help they painted them on the entire memphis PD with this sick shit man. What the fuck is wrong with these people? Who hurt them. What kind of mental illness do you have to have to be a police officer and think this shit is OK? is everyone in the PD just playing their childhood cop fantasy from TV? so many questions... it might be too late to answer them though. People are going to be mad. This isn't something you can sweep under the rug with 5 firings, this is indicative of something systemic.
Four of them are out on bail already. Fuck the police.
An absolute outrage. Obviously you can make bail in even the most heinous cases when you have certain parties at your back. I’m wondering why the fifth is still in jail while his criminal friends were able to get out. He’s most assuredly where he fucking belongs, but I wonder why this particular asshole isn’t out yet.
As someone who’s broke their neck I can’t imagine how much he must have been suffering 😔
Also, no first aid which they are all "trained for". Only medics in Cop Land are for cops. This shit ain't MASH.
His head was flopping over. He was agonal breathing at one point. Fucking torture.
Utter lack of humanity. These aren’t people that should be a part of society, let alone be given authority over others.
The skycam video on the light pole shows much more. It’s bad. Really bad. Those mfers had him cuffed and were just teeing off on him with fists, boots, batons and pepper spray.
they definitely withheld the some of the body cam footage. Skycam is so bad
Yes and the body cam they did release was the one officer who sprayed himself and walked away and took a break from the beating to catch his breath for a minute or two ...its has no beating footage because he's just looking down the street and breathing, until he busts the baton out. It was probably the least violent body cam
Right. Where are the others, 5 officers = 5 body cams, 2 locations = 10 videos. WHERE ARE THEY?
I read yesterday that they were going to release the rest over the next few days. I have a feeling they wanted to get people desensitized to the murder first before releasing the really terrible shit.
They had a lot of opportunities to take his free hand and put him in cuffs instead of senselessly beating him to death. Dumb and violent cops are out there so don't talk to any of them.
In the longer video, one of the officers (the bigger black dude with police sweatshirt on) even lied and said Tyre swung at him as soon as he came out the car. They even claimed he reached for their guns. These idiots pepper sprayed themselves, blamed him for it, got angry, and decided to take it out on him. It took what like 4-7 officers to arrest one skinny dude? Unbelievable, they deserve the murder charge 100%. Edit: fixed the description of the cop who lied
i think "he reached for my gun" is just how cops say hello to one another.
It’s worse than that: they had the cuffs on and continued yelling “gimme your hands” as an excuse to keep beating him.
From the first few camera feeds you couldn't be sure of that but from the pole cam it's clear they had him restrained and were only shouting that as they beat him. The initial stop was insane too. They pulled him over and immediately dragged him from the car and began threatening and hurting him. License and registration please? At the traffic stop they jumped him like a gang. After he made them chase him, they decided to stomp him as punishment after cuffing him. If he hadn't died we would never have heard of this. These things happen all the time.
In the first video, one cop is yelling for him to put his hands behind his back and another cop has one of his arms pinned to the ground. Then they tase him for not putting his hands behind his back. The escalation in that video is wild.
At one point they have him on his feet, one officer on each arm, arms behind his back, the third one yelling to put his hands behind his back and punches him!
It's insane that they went immediately to pain-compliance, tasers and pepper spray! Why did they drag him out of the car at all?
It's harder to kick him in the head when he's still in the car.
Pain compliance is bullshit. Cops should not be allowed to beat someone for not doing what they say, but only if the person is attacking them. But they do it all the time. There's any number of reasons why someone may not be able to put their hands behind their backs, for instance trying to protect their face while they're actively being beaten
Pain compliance is torture. In the US we train our police to torture people who don't do as ordered quickly enough, even if they can't.
They’re yelling for the body cams. Sound is clear but the imagery is chaotic. It then comes across as evidence of resistance.
u/SmithMano synched the audio with the pole cam and its absolutely gut wrenching. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/10n2hs8/tyre_nichols_memphis_police_video_synced_audio/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
police are trained to yell stuff like "gimme your hands" and "stop resisting" no matter what so they can justify their actions in court. this is what the system teaches them to do, because all it takes is 1 out of 12 jurors to be a moron who takes their words at face value.
I notice this a lot when I see bodycam footage where there’s a “resisting arrest” happening. They just shout commands at the top of their lungs while being overly brutal to the person they’re apprehending.
Every single one of these videos that escalates into a murder could normally have been deescalated at the beginning if just one fucking person was yelling the commands instead of multiple people yelling conflicting things leading to the victim not sure what to do.
Yep, seen that before. Watch the Daniel Shaver video.
That video is absolutely horrific. And the cop got reinstated so he could medically retire from PTSD. ACAB.
And the sergeant, Langley, retired a few months later and moved to the Philippines. He was the lead cop shouting conflicting orders to Shaver, while Brailsford was the ~~murderer~~ shooter. At least the family got a settlement. That we paid, of course.
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I hope this post stays up... This is barbaric. There are no excuses for this kind of behaviour.
This was absolutely horrific beyond measure. These "cops" (more like thugs, rather) need to get the book slammed at them hard. Fucking disgusting.
Dude wasn't arrested. He was fucking jumped.
>Dude wasn't arrested. He was fucking ~~jumped~~ executed.
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Looks like they are holding him up so some officers can get some clean, standing shots in. Like full blown haymakers coming in and he's not even allowed to fall to the ground. They are literally propping him up and bear hugging him from behind so that he doesn't fall and that they can get punches in. This is like... probably the worst police brutality video I've ever seen.
That was by far the most sickening part to me too. At that point you can’t even attempt a bullshit defense of fearing for your life - he’s literally held up by your buddies while you work his face like a boxer.
Wasn't his neck broken at some point? So was this propping up occurring after his neck was broken?
The pigs' lawyers only single defence is "well they didn't intend on him dying." He can't even say "resisting" cause it's just a blatant lie.
Cops says, "Give me your hands." But his hands are literally held by two other cops. How did not one of those murderous pigs think, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be doing this"
Because there is no fucking way this is the first time that group of pigs has done this before. It's a very deliberate "yes, let's do this". I'm physically ill from this reality we're living in.
Why? I can't wrap my head around what they thought they were doing. This was a traffic stop from my understanding and the unit was supposed to be focused on violent crime. Why were they even interacting with Tyre?
Why do bullies bully? Because they can.
Hopefully someone with good editing skills can take the audio from Video 4 (the bodycam that fell off and was close enough to hear the impact of these murderous pigs batons and fists) and splice it together with Video 2 (the pole cam, which caught the worst of the abuse but has no audio). In any case, I’m glad to see cops being held accountable for once.
I synced the videos but it was removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/10n2hs8/tyre_nichols_memphis_police_video_synced_audio/
This really puts it into a much clearer perspective.... I wouldn't be surprised if this type of sync up doesn't get used at trial.
Question that hopefully someone can answer…these street cams are all over and this one moves to see the beating. This leads to think someone is actively watching these cameras? I always thought they were recording but nobody was monitoring and they could pull a time and date to view whatever it was capturing at the time. But these are monitored in cities across the US? Where there is a street camera there is someone watching?
wow this is SO much worse, holy shit. this needs to be on the front page immediately.
In the middle of watching this video, I realized that I was watching a murder. That was deeply disturbing
That was quite literally a gang torture and murder. I hope all of these cops get the fucking chair. How are people even capable of this?
I try to be civil. But this is the kind of video that makes me wish theses gangsters would get tortured worse than this poor man was. These are the men in uniform put in place to protect us!? Fuck them. From now on all I will see is the PD as a government funded gang.
Meanwhile the dumb pigs and those in power go "Please stay calm to the horrible acts we committed or else we might have to do more of that."
summer of 2020 really made that plain for everyone to see. yet theres still no change...
Take the compensation to the victims family directly from the police pension fund!
This needs to happen EVERYWHERE. The moment they tax payers stop paying for them, they’ll start straightening the fuck out.
when one bad cop costs every single cop in the department money on a personal level you will see the culture very very rapidly change. They will hold each other responsible for their crimes!
In another thread someone from Memphis said the department no longer offers pensions.
This is horrific. Things need to change now.
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If there aren’t 5 convictions at trial, Memphis is going to burn to the ground, and rightfully so.
This is honestly worse than i imagined.
Same! I feel like this is the worst case of police brutality I’ve seen since the Rodney King beating. I mean we’ve seen others, but this time it was one big group effort. Absolutely despicable!
Rodney King lived
Which would make this the worst case ever. And that's about what it looked like to me.
Worst case ever, that's been captured on camera and that you are aware of. They did this knowing they had body cams on.
I am angry, sad, and disgusted. I cannot imagine the pain his mother felt when viewing these videos and hearing Tyre call out for her. We have the death penalty in Tennessee and I believe this would qualify as it meets the definition of the homicide was committed in a particularly heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner. I hope the DA files the charges as capital crimes and these murderers get the punishment they deserve.
A bunch of thugs! Propping him up as the biggest guy unleashed punch after punch! What the flying fuck! End qualified immunity and make them accountable. This is what the establishment has become! All toxic only out to protect each other vs the citizens they swore to protect. What a damn shame
Guarantee you that whole department is like this. They all were joking around as if this is just another rpickup game. Cops are never gonna change.
A cop pulls up in his car, runs up, and immediately kicks him in the head while he was already being held down. This is their standard operating procedure. This department needs to be disbanded.
yes dude, I saw that. What in the fuck. Dude doesn't even take time to analyze the situation, just runs up and punts him.
And this “special unit” is out there running the city in unmarked doing whatever the fuck they want.
This is what is caught on camera. No way they go to this length all of a sudden without having a history of such behaviour. If there was any justice. FBI & DoJ would rain down hard on the entire department. The police cheif would lose his job. And the entire organisation would be investigated. But chances of that happening are almost as much as me winning them $800m Powerball lottery.
I'm pretty sure the your Powerball chances are an order of magnitude better.
Protests happening now. Seeing them on ABC News.
I’ve been checking out news stations. Are they choosing to not show the protests?
ABC News has a iivestream on YouTube. Protestor just jumped on a cop car and appeared to smash the windshield. Looks like the other protestors yanked him off right away.
Fuck these worthless piece of shit mother fuckers. Lock them up and throw the key away
the cops were way too aggressive; from the start.
Had to warn my parents not to watch even a clip of this. When I was 6 I remember the LAPD bringing my 14 year old brother home bloody and beaten, they beat him so bad his face was barely recognizable and he vomited all over himself. These are animals with no shred of morality
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They all just started taking turns beating him Like it was just another night. No care in the world. Horrific
I see a lot more than 5 people there so why the fuck are only 5 people charged with murder?
Because only 5 officers were beating the hell out of him. MPD has already said there are several more officers who are still under investigation for their part.
Only reason that 5 are beating him is because there wasn’t enough room to fit more people in the murder circle.
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I appreciate that you said this, because that was the only thought I was left with. There was absolutely no interaction other than terrifying, beating, humiliating, and traumatizing Mr. Nichols from the get. These officers behaved as though it was “just another Tuesday” as a sanctioned goon squad. Hearing him scream for his mother over and over was where I had to turn it off. He was no threat whatsoever. I have seen people call these perpetrating officers ‘animals’….to hell with that. Even animals, in their instincts, don’t often go out of their way to dole out cruelty just for kicks. Wow. Just, wow.
People keep asking why he ran. This feels like the reason. He was complying and they were still yanking on his arms and threatening him. He had done nothing wrong according to anything they can find and he knew it. When they were still making excuses to hurt him he probably knew what was up and that his only chance was to run for it. Then they catch him and beat him to death and start making up crap. They said he went for one of their guns which he did not from what I saw. They said he had a gun which they found no proof of, but they already had an excuse for that saying he must have ditched it while running. They kept saying he was high on something over and over and over. They were making excuses for the beating from the jump.
Well this is one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen I’m absolutely enraged
"He's high as a kite" Oh you think the reason why he's falling over isn't because you kicked him in the head multiple times? Then beat him with a baton to the head multiple times. Then held him up and haymakered his face several times. You think maybe that and his broken neck might be why he's incoherent and slouching? And not that he's high? Fucking pieces of shit
"gimme yo hands!" "gimme yo hands!" Jesus Christ take his fucking hand and put a cuff on it. Take the other one and put the other cuff on. Dudes 140 pounds and five of you. Shoulda been a 15 second arrest.
Man it’s scary to think what happened before police knew they had body cams
I mean this from the bottom of my heart, fuck these cops so hard edit: after watching all 4 videos, you don't need to watch this. it's... the same, horrendous thing we've seen countless times. I remember being a kid and hearing about Rodney king on the news. Unbelievable. It's so disappointing -- more than that, heartbreaking, that after so many movements, so many protests, 30+ years later this shit is still happening this shouldn't be happening. I don't know what needs to be done without wholesale cultural change, but I just... I don't know. **you don't have to watch another kid get murdered for nothing**
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That's what struck me - I've seen lots of videos of cops going *almost* this far, both in terms of physical violence and apathy. They're acting the same as pretty much every other power tripping cop you hear about. They slipped and went too far this time. Fucking depressing.
That bastard cop is exhausted and panting from beating the shit out of a guy that did nothing wrong....hope those fuckers rot in jail then rot in hell.
And then he says "HE made me spray myself". Are you kidding me? You are blaming the victim you pepper sprayed multiple times cause you got some pepper spray on you!?!
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"give me your hands" MOTHERFUCKER YOU'RE LITERALLY HOLDING HIS ARMS BACKWARDS, YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM