#Tyre Nichols

[whenweallvote]

During a traffic stop in Memphis, five police officers pulled Tyre Nichols from his car, pepper sprayed him, tased him, and beat him into critical condition.

He died after fighting for his life in the hospital for three days.

One year after his death, the Memphis City Council committee voted yesterday to replace police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis who was in charge of the department and the officers.

Tyre Nichols should still be here.

[allthegeopolitics]

Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 40 years for a former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty Friday to federal civil rights violations in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead guilty in the killing that sparked outrage and renewed calls for police reform. Three former officers still face trial in federal court next month, and two of their former colleagues could testify against them.

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[kyrsteniopsis]

According to CREW, a nonpartisan group, beyond this promise of police immunity (which is already happening as we've seen time and again), Trump has plans to militarize the police against "people experiencing homelessness, 'wag[e] war' on drug dealers, crack down on border crossings and ramp up the use of the death penalty. Many of these plans would represent an unprecedented expansion of presidential power and could lead to a slippery slope of weaponizing the federal government against civilians and infringing their civil liberties."

If you want to sit this election out (and I would encourage that you don't), the least you can do is know what the stakes are.

More lives lost to police violence and yet more vulnerable people like Sonya Massey dead.

Yes, the Democrats aren't perfect, blah blah blah. I'm tired of this one-sided argument. Go yell at a tree, be an adult, and vote on behalf of people who aren't as privileged as you are.

[africanamericanreports]

Three former Memphis police officers were convicted of witness tampering in the 2023 beating of Tyre Nichols but were acquitted of the most severe civil rights charges related to the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023.

[follow-up-news]

A second former Memphis police officer changed his plea to guilty on Friday in connection to alleged civil rights violations that ended in the beating death of Tyre Nichols. A change of plea for former officer Emmitt Martin was entered in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Mark Norris in Memphis, with prosecutors saying they'll ask for a 40-year-sentence. The former police officer pleaded guilty to using excessive force and witness tampering. Back in November, another former Memphis officer, Desmond Mills Jr., changed his plea to guilty to federal charges of excessive force and obstruction of justice. The defendant agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and face up to 15 years behind bars.

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[mistfunk]

Mistigram: just because February is over you might think that I could give the #BLM tenor of my Black History Month posts a rest. Well, you'd be mistaken. From the new MIST0223 artpack collection, here's a #teletext portrait by @atonalosprey of the late Tyre Nichols, beaten to death by five Memphis police officers at a traffic stop this January. We must demand better.

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[ausetkmt]

Everything we know from Tyre Nichols' autopsy | News | fox13memphis.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An official autopsy report from the medical examiner’s office not only confirms Tyre Nichols’s brutal beating, but it also goes into detail of how bad that damage was.

 The report ruled Nichols' death a homicide due to blunt force injuries to the head.

"The decedent was a 29-year-old man who was struck multiple times during a law enforcement encounter," the autopsy reads.  This is the full autopsy for Tyre Nichols.

Nichols died at 1:41 p.m. on Jan. 10, 2023, in police custody, three days after video captured five now former Memphis Police officers beating him with his hands held behind his back. 

According to the autopsy, the 29-year-old Nichols had blunt force injuries to the head and neck, including bruises on the brain tissue.

The report also states that Nichols had rotational/torsional injury of the brain, meaning that Nichols' brain suffered injuries from a rapid change of the rotational velocity of the head - something that can occur from taking a direct hit to the skull. 

While at the hospital, Nichols' brain was found to be bleeding, one brain hemorrhage, and he developed acute kidney injury and liver failure, the autopsy states  

There was also subscapular and subgaleal hemorrhages or bleeding in the space between Nichols skull and scalp, the report shows. 

Attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, representing Nichols' family, released the following statement after the report was made public. 

"Video of this killing stunned the world, and we are once again stunned to see it put into words by the medical examiner. Tyre suffered blunt force injuries to the head, neck, torso, and extremities by Memphis Police. The utter brutality of the deadly beating that Tyre suffered is once again highlighted in these official autopsy results - no part of this young man was spared as he was tortured to death by these officers." 

In an exclusive interview with FOX13, attorney Ben Crump told us why this report only strengthens the case for trial.

“The findings of the autopsy confirm what we saw in the video of Tyre Nichols being savagely beaten and brutalized by the MPD officers,” said Crump.

“It further underscores why we must have accountability because the tragedy to many in the community is how many instances of this brutality happened and they were not captured on video?”

Crump said these findings are the same as what his team saw from an independent autopsy done back in January.

WATCH: Ben Crump talks as Tyre Nichols' autopsy report released

Crump said for Nichols’ family, four months later, it’s still a tough pill to swallow: “This is something you’ll never get over – your child taken from this earth and this savage manner, the fact that he was so close to home, the fact that his last words were calling out for his mama, saying ‘I just wanna get home, I just wanna go home’, those are the words that will haunt everyone that saw that video forever.”

Nichols also suffered intramuscular hemorrhages to the head and neck. The report notes "extensive hemorrhage of the right temporo-parieto-occipital scalp".

The 29-year-old was taken to the hospital 27 minutes after emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene. 

Nichols' toxicology report shows that his BAC was 0.049 (less than the legal limit to drive in the State of Tennessee) and he had THC in his system. Other drugs, administered at the hospital, were also found. 

Other injuries Nichols suffered included blunt force injuries of the torso and other extremities as well as injuries from status post cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation, the autopsy shows. 

Tyre Nichols right eye is described in the report as being severely swelled and purple. Both eyes were reported to have bleeding underneath them. 

Cuts of different lengths were noted on Nichols' cheeks and lips. 

The report also noted bruising on the brain tissue in the regions of Tyre Nichols' brain which are considered a key areas for language comprehension and production, cognitive process of decision-making. 

Tyre Nichols suffered more bruising and cuts over his body, including to his neck, shoulders, buttocks, pectoral muscles, forearms, upper arms, knees and thighs. 

The autopsy noted "extensive ischemic necrosis" of the liver, a condition which can be caused by blunt force trauma. 

Nichols' body is described in the report as being "well-developed (and) well-nourished" with no track marks on his arms and no scars on his wrists. 

Five former Memphis Police officers have been charged with aggravated kidnapping and second-degree murder, among other charges, in Nichols' death. 

Officers charged in Tyre Nichols' murder plead not guilty

Five former Memphis Police Department officers who authorities charged are responsible in the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7 - a case that emotionally jolted the Memphis community and the nation - make their initial court appearance this morning.

Another officer, Preston Hemphill, was fired after an internal investigation by MPD but was not charged criminally in Nichols' death. 

A lieutenant present at the scene that night retired prior to his internal hearing. 

Three Memphis Fire Department employees were fired after an internal investigation into their actions on the night of Nichols' death. 

Crump said he wants legislation to go just beyond Memphis, even on a national scale.

So far, Memphis city council has passed six ordinances that are aimed towards police reform.

[whitesinhistory]

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[commiepinkofag]

September 10, 2009 Atlanta's Police Vice Squad and paramilitary 'Red Dog' unit illegally raided the Atlanta Eagle Bar

Settlements from lawsuits filed by victims of the raid reached over 1 million.

Per a court order, the APD created a one-hour training video which all officers have to watch and answer an accompanying set of questions.

The 'Red Dog Unit' was disbanded and replaced with another unit — currently named 'Titan'.

The Titan Unit "will have to be more aggressive," Police Chief Rodney Bryant told a House committee. But, Bryant also assured lawmakers "in no way" would it "replace what Red Dog was." — 2021

'Red Dog' was at one point was led by Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis, who then created the 'Scorpion Unit' in Memphis — the 'Scorpion Unit' subsequently responsible for the murder of Tyre Nichols.

Police falsely imprisoned Atlanta Eagle bar patrons, employees in raid, rules citizen review board

Among the many racist and homophobic slurs used by police that night, an officer was heard saying, “Raiding a gay bar is fun, we should do it every week.” ['alleged']

The owner of the Atlanta Eagle stated that the city's actions following the ruling have been "nothing more than a slap in the face of the gay community".

Review finds widespread wrongdoing in Atlanta Eagle bar raid [2011] Two officers from Atlanta Eagle raid in trouble again; complaints allege groping, body search [2011]

The officers named involved in the Atlanta Eagle raid were: Sgt. John Brock, Sgt. Willie Adams III, Sgt. Kelley Collier, Officer Melonie Mague, Officer Robert Goodwin, Officer Stallone Davis, Investigator Bennie Bridges, Officer Jeremy Edwards, Officer Dimitri Jaques, Officer Dione Meredith, Officer James Menzoian, Officer Cayenne Mayes, Officer Christopher Dowd, Officer Craig Condon, Investigator Herman Glass, Investigator Timothy McClain, Officer Brandon Jackson, Officer Marlon Noble, Officer Stephanie Upton, Officer William Porter, Officer William B. Walters, Officer Vincente Marcano, Officer Darnell Perry and Officer Jared Watkins.

14 years after the notorious raid…

The Eagle reopens in a new location, after closure during the Covid epidemic.

[memphisfoodnotbombs]

Join us in a moment of silence as we remember Paul Young:

Decided to retain Cerelyn “CJ” Davis who:

- Trained with the “Israeli Defense Forces”

- Is responsible for the MPD killing of Tyre Nichols

“I feel good about CJ and her ability to lead… I feel comfortable with her” - Paul Young

#JusticeForTyreNichols #TyreNichols #JusticeForTyre #MemphisPoliceDepartment #MemphisPolice #CJDavis #PaulYoung #BlackLivesMatter #Memphis #MemphisTennessee #MemphisTN #CeaseFire #CeaseFireNow #FoodNotBombs

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Wilfred Reilly and Robert Cherry

Published: Feb 14, 2023

The senseless murder of Tyre Nichols, by five black Memphis police officers, was an undisputed tragedy. But it’s important to judge it in context.

For many on the American political left, the explanation for what happened was simple: white supremacy. Despite the officers involved being black, this was still held up as evidence of the continued victimisation of black men by police officers who too often resort to violence whenever they interact with ‘people of colour’. Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, George Floyd and other BLM martyrs, of varying degrees of actual innocence, have been cited in support of these claims, and have been used to fuel the ‘Defund the Police’ narrative.

This take is wrong. We shouldn’t demonise policing and policemen simply because the annual number of problematic killings is above zero. According to the Washington Post’s excellent database, about 25 unarmed black Americans were killed by police gunfire annually from 2015 to 2018. The figure is only at 25 because of an atypical 37 killings in 2015. Over the past four years, in fact, the number of unarmed black Americans killed annually by police gunfire stands at 12. In contrast, far more police officers are shot and killed in the line of duty each year – 314 police officers were shot and 58 were killed in 2021 alone.

While the left highlights the fact that black Americans are killed by police at two-to-three times the rate that would be expected from their share of the population, it neglects to mention the most glaringly obvious reason for this. Black Americans are a far younger, more urban and more working-class population than are white Americans. Largely as a result of this, they are disproportionately perpetrators of violent crimes. They therefore come into contact with the law more often than other sections of US society. According to recent figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), black Americans are at least five times as likely as whites to commit murders and nearly three times as likely to commit violent crimes overall.

Moreover, the homicide problem in specifically black communities has grown significantly since the killing of George Floyd in 2020 – with the annual number of murders surging to over 20,000 and black-perpetrator homicides passing the 10,000 mark in both 2020 and 2021. There are now significantly more black (60 per cent) than ‘white and other’ (40 per cent) homicide victims annually, despite the fact that black Americans make up only 12 to 13 per cent of the US population. This entirely new level of blood-letting is the true crisis faced by black American citizens living in struggling neighbourhoods – not the phoney risk of ‘genocide’ at police hands, as BLM claims.

None of this excuses terrible police work, such as that which cost Tyre Nichols his life. However, as Bob Maranto and I have noted, perhaps the most serious problem with the BLM-inspired ‘defund the police’ narratives is that they utterly ignore potential changes to policing that might actually work. Over the past two decades, well-documented police-community coordination in major cities has been effective at reducing the number of black men killed by police, and even the share of black men engaged in violent behaviours.

Over the past decade, many police forces have begun to dramatically revamp their use of force and rethink citizen-interaction policies. Sometimes this has been prodded by federal intervention – particularly after the 2015 Department of Justice investigation into policing techniques in the troubled city of Ferguson, Missouri. As leading criminologists like David Kennedy and Thomas Abt have pointed out, police forces working with community groups have had success targeting a small number of the most ‘at risk’ men in high-crime neighbourhoods. The technique is simplicity itself: offer these potential offenders (and potential victims) strong positive incentives if they begin to turn their lives around, but harsh penalties if they do not.

Memorably, in the summer of 2020, the defunding movement proposed replacing police officers with social workers and community ‘violence disruptor’ groups. It was not entirely wrong about the role social workers can play as part of an anti-crime strategy. However, the activists failed to recognise that these groups cannot act independently of the police. Social workers, in particular, cannot effectively respond to serious situations of domestic or family violence alone – since most are young untrained women and these troubling cases often involve serious criminals armed with guns or knives. Independent ‘peace-makers’ are just tax-paying citizens – they have no access to the databases that police officers use to proactively interact with high-risk men, or any real ‘sticks’ to use to force compliance with the law. Social work and community activism can work only as an addition to better-funded and more proactive police departments, not as an alternative to them.

Other practical strategies for improving policing can work, too. As Maranto and I note, New York City – perhaps surprisingly one of the US’s very top police departments – simply fires all officers who pick up more than two or three verified citizen complaints, or demotes them to hated jobs, such as in the departmental motor pool. Maintaining a strong, well-funded Internal Affairs division, and even requiring officers to fill out an awkward 40-plus page report every time they unholster a firearm, have proven to be effective violence-reduction strategies as well. The prospect of bureaucratic tedium really can keep officers in check.

It is also clear what does not work to improve policing – the BLM-promoted strategy of reduced stop rates by lower-funded police departments. As Jason Johnson of the Law Enforcement Legal Defence Fund notes, when arrests recently plunged by 38 per cent in New York City, homicides rose 58 per cent – by more than 100. In Chicago, the equivalent figures were 53 per cent and 65 per cent. In Louisville, Kentucky, stops dropped by 35 per cent, arrests dropped by 42 per cent and murders rose 87 per cent. As Travis Campbell of the University of Massachusetts observes, the response of cities to major Black Lives Matter marches does appear to correlate with a slight decline in police shootings, but also with a remarkable surge of 1,000 to 6,000 more annual homicides nationally.

Given all this, what the horrific Tyre Nichols case reveals is not ‘black white supremacy’ but the flaws in the currently popular woke model of how to fix policing. Race doesn’t seem to have played a huge role in Nichols’ killing one way or another. More significant is the fact that the ‘hired from the hometown’ officers who allegedly beat Nichols to death were recruited under ‘dangerously lowered’ standards – two of those involved in Nichols’ death were sworn in back in August 2020, after Memphis Police Department had decided to attract more minorities by lowering education requirements. These lawmen were assigned to an almost irrationally aggressive anti-crime unit (called ‘SCORPION’), which was established precisely because crime had surged so much in Memphis – and everywhere else – following George Floyd’s killing and the Great Police Pullback. A decent man lost his life as a result.

We know what might save 10 or so ‘black lives’ every year from police shootings. And we know that these approaches might also protect a great many citizens from being knocked over the head with a brick by muggers. Yet too many on the left are happy to mouth inane ‘defund’ slogans and push dangerous policies. In doing so, they are harming the very people on whose behalf they claim to speak.

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The uptick in violence and deaths as a result of police pullback is also known as the "Ferguson Effect," and has been studied.

"BLM" is a brand name, not a mission statement. They don't own concern for black people any more than Xianity owns morality.

BLM's aims are ideological (and financial), not social. Defending what they do - and maybe even more importantly, what they don't do - with "what, you don't think black lives matter?" is as asinine and dishonest as saying, "what, you don't want to make America great again?" or "but it's a religion of peace!" The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is neither democratic nor for the people.

For the record, this is a bait-and-switch equivocaton and deception called the Motte and Bailey.

If black lives mattered to BLM, they'd be talking about things that matter to altering the trajectory of black lives that would benefit from those things: literacy and education, neighborhood crime (esp. black-on-black), young parenthood, fatherlessness, and vocational opportunities, especially those that aren't dependent on college.

[ The correct number is low double-digits. And below statistical expectations. ]

[mysharona1987]

Tyre Nichols mother holds emotional press conference after officers plea...