Memphis Police Disband Unit Tied to Death of Tyre Nichols

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The Memphis police chief disbanded the city’s so-called Scorpion unit on Saturday

. They face up to 60 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.

“Nobody tried to stop anything. They have a duty to intervene, a duty to render care,” Brenda Goss Andrews, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, said in an interview after viewing the video. Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, said the family would “continue to seek justice” and those who failed to render aid are “just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.”Cities nationwide hadafter the video emerged, but protests were scattered and nonviolent. Several dozen demonstrators in Memphis blocked the Interstate 55 bridge that carries traffic over the Mississippi River toward Arkansas. Protesters also blocked traffic in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.

Davis acknowledged that the police department has a supervisor shortage and said the lack of a supervisor in the arrest was a “major problem.” City officials have pledged to provide more of them. The officers beat him with a baton, and kick and punch him. The attack continues even after he collapses.During the wait for an ambulance, officers joke and air grievances. They complain that a handheld radio was ruined, that someone lost a flashlight, that multiple officers were caught in the pepper spray used against Nichols.

 

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City defunds the police-police leave-crime skyrockets-city panics-tries to hire more police-no one interested- city lowers hiring standards for police- police now dishing out street justice on the streets. Repeat cycle

the sheriff tried to kill the neighborhood watch capt in coos county Or because he called him out for aiding & abetting the local white crime syndicate & the FBI bust the count jail for torturing people until they sign papers they R guilty of false charges, SORRY we need guns!

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