President Biden, sports stars, civil rights activists and protesters have expressed their outrage at the video showing Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols.
have expressed disgust at the actions of the Memphis police officers, calling the violence “reprehensible,” and “horrific.”“The disgraceful actions depicted in the released video are an unequivocal violation of our oath to protect those we serve, and a failure of basic human decency,” Keechant L. Sewell, the New York City police commissioner, said in a statement.
Eddie Garcia, the head of the Dallas Police Department, also condemned the actions of the former officers, saying they do not represent “the thousands of honorable police officers across this country.” In Memphis, Nichols’s friends and protesters chanted “Justice for Tyre!” at a skatepark on Thursday to honor the
of one. On Friday, peaceful demonstrators in the city shut down the bridge crossing the Mississippi River, briefly blocking traffic on Interstate 55, to demand justice for Nichols and an end to “police terror.”“I don’t have to watch the video to know what happened to him,” said Amber Sherman, a member of the Memphis chapter of Black Lives Matter. “I can see the picture of him in the hospital and know he was brutally murdered.
Nichols’s death has resonated widely both because of the brutality of the beating and the harrowing nature of the video, which shows him screaming for his mother, just a short distance from home.Biden her son’s death would serve as a call to action.Robert Klemko, Emily Davies, Mark Berman, Justine McDaniel, Luis Velarde and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff contributed to this report.
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