5 Black police officers charged over death of Tyre Nichols

I'd usually be of the same opinion but this is different. The Memphis police chief herself has said there is no evidence so far as to the reckless driving that's Nichols had been initially stopped for. The poor chap was set upon for fcuk all reason and is now dead as a result.

The fact that the cops all had their body cams on shows that some cops really feel that they will be protected by the blue wall of silence.

100% agree.

He was killed because he charged at guards with a knife not because of his skin colour.

There were people salivating at the prospect of a hate killing at the time. Disgusting stuff.

doesnt mean anything untoward is happening, 'po white folk are more likely to be rural so are less policed , black people live in deprived urban areas so are likely to have more police. Its like Dublin you can tell if an area is dodgy by the size of the local Garda station....

Just watched an eight minute or so clip on CNN and that was a tough watch.

That was not policing, that was vigilantism.

Tyre Nichols was so calm at the start and the end of the video but for sadly different reasons.

You have a group of so called officers surrounding him like a pack animals protecting a kill, and a voice repeating that "he is as high as a kite".

It is disgusting. May he rest in peace and may some sort iof justice be found.

Should George have been left kill the guard and proceed to kill family members.

No.

Statistics show that white police officers killing unarmed black people in America is incredibly small. Minibus filling small in a country of 340mn.

Police of any background killing innocent people is incredibly small, especially how armed, drug addled and violent American society.

Lots of middle class White activists need a cause and adventure and that ends up with black communities having their shops burnt out. BLM destroyed a generation of black businesses in America. The rich white kids got bored, went home but the damage was done.

Apologies. Misread.

Streets be like that. Gang culture has become community culture.

There is a great video on YouTube, it's a black man in New York dressing down white BLM protesters, aren't they nearly all white, for spray painting his shop window.

I'm not your holiday project, we don't need to be saved by you he says.

It was so very accurate.

They go home to Suburbia, back to College and daddy's firm, talking about their Summer of activism at parties. He is Left picking up glass and rebuilding a life for years to come.

Solidarity dude.

If it was the rare occasion of a white policeman killing an innocent black man the activist class would be mobilising, it's not, nothing in it for them, that was like so 2020.

The fact you don’t see it is worrying. The cops shouldn’t have done it in both cases.

The insane OTT exaggerated mass hysteria about the U.S. cops and how they do their jobs puzzles me.

330 million people, likely 1000s of police incidents per day, millions per year, dealing with so many different types people, weapons, differences, ethnicities and so on..many many dangerous people and dangerous situations being faced day in day out, and people never think of all the good and proper and correct job they do.

No, certain incidents are taken and used to paint the whole system as bent, racist and unfit to serve..

These 5 cops called themselves ‘the scorpions’ apparently. They were a rouge bunch of bad fu*kers who seemed to get off on violence. Poor Tyre was an unfortunate victim of these bloodthirsty monsters. If it wasn’t him that particular night it would likely have been someone else.

America really has to make an example of these 5 cops. They should never be released from prison imo.

That's a horrendous watch but unfortunately too common in America,pure hate by a bunch of goons in uniform,

it wasn't race hate ,

Just pure hate and unnecessary violence for a traffic stop, they sit him up against a car and start fabricating their stories about him grabbing their guns and resisting arrest,

America needs a reset of all of their Police forces not defunding, complete resets and new oversights put in place and remove the need for grand jury's in cases of police brutality

Definitely worse imo. The outraged instant act of physical violence from the start makes this more harrowing. And you probably safely assume it's not the first time these lads done something like this.

Yeah now that the video has been put out next will probably be their service records and complaints ect.

I keep thinking there has to be a lot more to it myself

They didn't just snap and out of the blue do that....there's probably a string of stuff we are not aware of....

Or there's some link and it's not just someone they hadn't previous with in some way....

That poor man.

But what I still cant get over is what the hell these Cops were thinking.

" let's beat crap out of him, kill him even, it will be grand sure"

Did they think they were going to bed and get up next day and life would be normal again?

Read the post...point out what part of it says there is any excuse...

Put it in quotation marks....

By saying they didn't just do it out of the blue I'm saying there may be a history of them operating outside of the law they are supposed to be upholding, maybe moonlighting as dealers/enforcers or as some sort of self appointed vigilantes or as a gang of thugs hiding behind authority etc etc...

By saying there's some link it doest mean I think they were justified in their actions....I just think its possible There could be a link...it seems odd to me they were so aggressive with him seemingly from the get go...I could be wrong but it doesn't mean in any way I think there's an excuse or it's justified.

I'm getting really **** tired of everything being polarised...no one can have an opinion or thought without being bracketed into a camp or a side now ffs

Everyone that asks a question or has a thought other than the ones you sanction isn't necessarily disagreeing with you, there might just be more than one way to interpret what they type.

Try looking before you leap on occasion, it might serve you well.