Authorities released body camera footage Friday night of five Memphis police officers beating driver Tire Nichols during a traffic stop.
Five former Memphis police officers were charged Thursday with second-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of a black driver.
Officers, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith – were fired Friday after driver Tire Nichols died following a violent confrontation during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.
Tire Nichols
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A video of police beating Tyre Nichols was released Friday night as Antifa and BLM fueled the riots.
Businesses in Memphis closed in anticipation of violent riots.
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CNN’s Commie Van Jones blamed Tire Nichols’ death on a beating.
Van Jones blames it on racism.
Via CNN.
Black people are not immune to anti-black messages
One of the sad facts about anti-black racism is that blacks themselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. The universal message of society is that blacks are inferior, unworthy and dangerous. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown that these ideas can infiltrate the minds of blacks as well as whites. Self-hatred is a real thing.
Because of this, a black store owner may view customers of his own race with suspicion, while treating his white customers with respect. Black people can harbor anti-Black sentiments and can act on those sentiments in harmful ways.
Black police officers often hang out in police departments that consider certain neighborhoods war zones. In these departments, a few officers are disciplined for dispensing “street justice” in certain units—often populated by black, brown, or low-income people—where there is a tacit understanding that the “rules” simply don’t apply.