Weirdly enough, the death penalty doesn’t exist in Mega-City One save for a few cases. Dredd executed a Sov-City judge whose actions resulted in the deaths of many citizens and infrastructure and in another case he executed a Mega-City One judge for treason. Which is a bit odd given the fascist system depicted in the comic book, but there you are.
This is the full video of Don Lemon’s interview with Tyre’s mother and stepfather, along with Attorney Benjamin Crump, this morning on CNN. Yes, it’s long, but you should watch the whole thing. I am in awe at his mother’s grace, dignity, passion, compassion, and strength.
The video of the attack(murder) has been released. It’s out there if you want to see what happened.
Or, another analgy.
Let’s say you live in a community policed by a corrupt and violent organization. Every day, you and your peers are subject to threats and acts of violence and degradation by members of this organization.
One day, some of the members go too far, they kill someone in a way they can’t cover up, in a way that no union rep or lawyer can twist around to justify.
These particular members are fired, and may be found criminally liable, but most likely will face far less punishment than if a group of violent people that wasn’t paid by the government had done the same thing.
You demand they do something, and they ask what else they are supposed to do, they fired those who went too far and got caught.
Oh, maybe that was less of an analogy…
I was gonna say, that is the world we live in, to an extent.
OK, I’ve skimmed through the videos, which is all I could handle. For me, the pole camera was the worst, mostly because it’s easiest to tell what’s going on. The worst of it was starting around 1:45 and goes for a couple minutes. The body cam videos are in some ways less disturbing because you can’t easily tell what’s happening, but also way more disturbing because they have audio.
If you really must watch, I think it’s best to start with the pole view (Video 2) to orient yourself. But I’m not really sure you gain anything by watching it in the first place.
City of Memphis (vimeo.com) (this link is to the Vimeo page - nothing starts playing immediately, so you will still have a chance to reconsider)
I watched the videos, and the “error” I saw was when the cop pepper sprayed himself. That’s an error.
It is beyond the pale to call the beating of Tyre Nichols an “error”.
Video #3 is the clearest I’ve seen of the bunch.
I watched Video #1 and there wasn’t much to it. Tye ran off and the beating clearly happened elsewhere.
I watched Video #2 which looked like a high-mounted camera (from a street corner maybe) and there was no sound but it was horrific. It looked like a movie where a mobster has his thugs “work a guy over”. Except it was happening for real, and these were supposed to be people enforcing the law and protecting the peace. He was being held up because he was basically knocked out, as people punched him, hit him with a baton, kicked him. It was horrible. I didn’t watch any other videos, I don’t want to see anymore.
This was not someone losing their temper or just using excessive force in an arrest. They beat someone who was held down, beat someone who had to be held up to be upright, even ran over to kick him again after he lay on the ground unmoving. It was ruthless and calculated and coldblooded.
Yes, they full-blown held him up and punched him.
I’m:
- Imagining that they can marry the audio to that light pole video
- More than a little nauseated right now
My wife and I … just watched a snuff film together.
The lack of medical attention and how long that went on was horrifying.
Don’t think I’ll watch it. One of these days America will have had enough? Question mark.
I watched it. This is the reason to protest. It’s not a protest of the response to this beating, it’s a protest of the beating itself. This should not happen, period. The right thing isn’t firing the people responsible, the right thing is creating a culture where this doesn’t happen.
This.
I watched a couple of minutes of video 2. Couldn’t bring myself to watch anymore than that.
This wasn’t an “error” or an “arrest gone wrong”. This was a straight up deliberate gang beating. I heard somewhere earlier tonight, probably on msnbc, that these five officers were all hired within the last 5 years. Between 2017 and 2020. For my own curiosity, I’d be very interested to know what sort of background checks were done on these guys before they were hired.
Yes, of course. In most of these Blue Murder cases, it turns out that the cops in question already had long records of things that they should have been fired for, but weren’t. Let’s fire all those other cops with long records of misconduct, before they kill someone. And if that’s the entire police force, then yes, let’s fire all of them. Because cops like this are worse than no cops at all.
The whole thing is awful. The first video has the cop who is hoping they stomp his ass, which they then go on to do. Rotten to the core. The whole fucking lot of them.
I watched all four videos and I expected more outrageous conduct than I saw, unfortunately this is normal police behaviour. US police are the real thugs, the real gangs, and had Tyre Nichols not have died this wouldn’t even be on the news.
Just another normal traffic stop in a big city. Go ahead and be outraged, but be outraged about all of the stops like this that happen every day without consequenses. The police knew there wouldn’t likely be any, that is evident by their actions. A couple of these cops may get convicted of various offenses so they can be held up as an example, but it will not alter any of the normal police practices.
Overwhelming force, as much as possible and as much as is available, to neutralise the percieved threat. That is the standard practice that will not change.
The videos after the most horrifying part support what you say. From the bodycams with sound (not the pole camera), after they had beaten the shit out of Nichols and he was handcuffed and propped up against the car, presumably the adrenaline was wearing off and they had time to consider what had happened. But they appeared to have no concern that they had done anything wrong.
A certain Candace Owens is saying (on twitter) it was his own fault for resisting.