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Are We Allowed To Consider Law Enforcement’s Side Of The Tyre Nichols Incident?
By: Eddie Scarry
January 31, 2023
While Ben Crump wants cable news opinions on incomplete footage of a confrontation with police to be the ‘blueprint’ for firing and convicting cops, it might be helpful to get a little more information first.
If Ben Crump, America’s No. 1 attorney in illiteracy, gets what he wants, kiss the right to due process — or what’s left of it — goodbye. If you’re suspected of committing a crime, particularly if you’re a police officer in the line of duty, pray you don’t see his face. It will be all but a death sentence.
Crump last week said that the Memphis Police Department’s response to the death of 29-year-old black man Tyre Nichols is “the blueprint for going forward” in matters of police confronting black suspects. By that, he apparently means firing, arresting, and prosecuting cops based on whatever half-baked narrative Crump puts out with hopes of getting a multimillion-dollar settlement with the city — all before law enforcement has had a chance to release any materials in its own defense.
Here’s what allegedly happened in the run-in between Nichols and the police: He was stopped by multiple cop cars on Jan. 7 for, police said, reckless driving; he was pulled from his car, but while officers attempted to subdue him, he broke free and fled the scene; after police were able to apprehend Nichols a second time, he allegedly continued to struggle and multiple cops appear to have taken turns beating him. Those details are apparent in the videos released by authorities on Friday.
But while Crump wants cable news opinions on incomplete footage of a confrontation with police to be the “blueprint” for firing and convicting cops, it might be helpful — fair, even — to get a little more information beforehand.
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https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/31/are-we-allowed-to-consider-law-enforcements-side-of-the-tyre-nichols-incident/
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All that matters here is the narrative to be pushed - "Cops are bad". And there is no way they will allow facts to stand in the way of that.
It is interesting in regards to the recent protests here in Atlanta against the opening of a police training center. You have a police department working to provide proper training to all police officers to prevent a Memphis event from occurring. And the left tries to block it.
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All that matters here is the narrative to be pushed - "Cops are bad". And there is no way they will allow facts to stand in the way of that.
It is interesting in regards to the recent protests here in Atlanta against the opening of a police training center. You have a police department working to provide proper training to all police officers to prevent a Memphis event from occurring. And the left tries to block it.
The narrative isn't just that cops are bad, it's that they're also racist white supremacists - or the willing tools of white supremacy.
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I guess he missed the part in the video where the two cops were holding Nichols while a third lined up to kick him in the face/head, and waited until he had just the right shot, not once, but twice.
I 'get' that the cops were pumped on adrenaline when they finally got him, but really?
Handcuff the guy and stuff him in the cruiser.
Don't keep beating him as hard as you can after he is controlled.
Were the cops taking steroids?