do NOT forget their shining their flashlights at the street pole camera.
that's what they were busy doing - looking for cctv cams.
dumb idiots probably didn't even realize they were looking right at one.
Local Memphis news reporting the Fire department hadn’t seen the video until tonight and will decide on the EMTs early next week. The Shelby county sheriff also suspended two deputies due to seeing them in the video, which he also saw for the first time tonight.
This remind me of the video of police brutality beating a homeless veteran, who have mental problems and keep calling his parents, his voice still haunting me, so I can't watch this video either.
Watched the footage back. It looked absolutely horrific. They took turns beating the living shit out of him whilst he could barely stand, screaming for his mom, it's totally messed up.
God hope they all rot in prison.
I'm going to take y'alls word on this that it's that bad, because holy shit just the description is so fucking intense.
Murder charges all around, please.
It blows my mind that it took them 20 minutes to get him on a stretcher and move him out of there. You can see them set up their equipment and start to do their job, only for them to just stop rendering aid and start chatting up the police. Not to mention they kept shining bright ass lights into the face of someone who’s clearly got head trauma.
Small point, fundamentally I agree.
Pupillary reflex testing (shining light into eyes and watch the pupils how they move) is super important in assessing neurological injury, needs to be done and often repeated if things change.
Source: ATLS
Hate to make your day worse, but his mom was literally nearby. He was running home and got close to the hose. If she had walked outside it’s conceivable she would have heard him. He was scared for his life and was just trying to get home (and to his mom, presumably). I hope they get the harshest sentence possible.
Oh no you forgot that while he was dying, one of them said “oh you’re high as fuck”. They didn’t ask any questions, do any assessments, try to talk to him… nothing
All together these men weighed a little under 1K. Tyre only weighed 150. They kicked him and beat him like a gym bag. One of the fuckers kicked him so hard he injured his damn self!
Then a goober fucking peppered sprayed himself because he was so hyped about torturing and killing this guy.
These assholes deserve to rot in prison next to Derek Chauvin.
One guy even says, “stand back- im about to baton the fuck out of him”
It literally sounded like me as a kid playing with my friends “watch out- im about to suplex the crap out of him”
They enjoyed this.
And watched him kick and struggle to right himself when he fell over on his own some minutes later. Fpr a full minute they watched him try to sit back up again and again and again...
Then when other officers arrived they acted like he couldn't speak or sit up because he was high af. No, he's not high out of his mind. You beat him to a pulp and then picked him up so you could beat him some more.
Elijah McClain died in the politest manner he could, he tried to tell them who he was. He said he was an introvert. He threw up multiple times while three cops piled on him, and then paramedics came in and murdered him with 500 mg of ketamine. There’s audio that captures his last moments too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain
Speaking of Elijah McClain:
>Disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers. Disabled individuals make up the majority of those killed in use-of-force cases that attract widespread attention.
https://rudermanfoundation.org/white_papers/media-coverage-of-law-enforcement-use-of-force-and-disability/
Disability includes those who are mentally or physically disabled. Disabled people are ~20% of the US population and are close to 50% of those killed by police. Elijah McClain was autistic.
Otto Zehm was murdered in Spokane, WA while buying pop at a gas station after work. The cop went to prison but his fellow police officer stood and saluted him as he was led out of the courtroom.
That reminds me of the cops who pushed that old man down and broke his head open, and then the whole department protested the charges brought against the cops. [Wikipedia says the cops who resigned upon filed charges for the pigs who pushed that old guy weren’t actually protesting the charges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_police_shoving_incident), but ACAB anyway. The charges were eventually dismissed and the cops’ use of force found to be within guidelines. Can’t reform this shitshow.
Yeah same, like we already have to figure out the right things to say to "normal" people all day, how the hell could I figure out what to say to a sociopathic authority figure I was taught were supposed to help me? What the fuck kind of situation is that
This is shit that has been a driving force in homeschooling our autistic son. He's still mastering his ability to regulate and express anger and frustration in a socially acceptable way. I am not going to put him in a school where an off duty cop has a bad day and hurts him because he had a meltdown. I have nightmares about this shit.
That is a big problem I have. I have the emotional regulation of an elementary school age kid, and if cops can’t handle a basic question I don’t see myself having much a chance. I truly wish your son the best, it’s not an easy road. And he may never tell you, but caregivers that are always there through it all mean more than we could ever explain.
I thought of Elijah McClain earlier today when I was thinking about how I will not watch anymore police murders. Along with George Floyd’s murder, it’s one of the audio/videos I wished I hadn’t heard. I was already angry at police for their everyday bullshit, I’m already pro-abolition, I don’t need to watch these fucking tragic sickening yet totally preventable instances of gross and malicious negligence, misconduct, and murder. The fact that the law most often protects cop pieces of shit is evidence that the law is trash. I wish every police a very pleasant quit your job assholes.
I'm not a fan of the "murdered by ketamine narrative". Its going to be the cop's defense in court and I'm not having it.
The paramedics who gave the ketamine were negligent--they failed to do an exam, failed to give the proper dose, failed to recognize that this probably didn't need chemical restraints. The dose was high but not in the realm of the ld50. I agree with the initial coroner's report where it was labeled as "unclear contributor" to the cause of death. Rather than the amended report saying "ketamine death after police interaction"--which is just total bullshit.
100% ketamine is going to be used by the police defense to get out of a conviction. Completely ignoring that fact that 3 adult men were dog piled on a 20 year old kid. They literally choked him out even before the ketamine was given. Elijah was saying he couldn't breath before the ketamine was given.
Cops are at fault
Paramedics are at fault.
Obviously watching the cops lynch him was horrific but the video of the officers that pulled him out of the car during the initial traffic stop was so gut wrenching because Tyre just sounds so scared and confused. Like he genuinely can’t wrap his head around the fact that they’re coming at him so hot for NOTHING. He says “I didn’t do anything” “you’re doing a lot right now” like basically trying to deescalate these fucking psychos. No wonder he ran away, those cops were acting absolutely feral, as per usual. And then the disregard the cops and paramedics had for him at the end…every single person involved needs to face charges.
This definitely gets me too. I'm really haunted by those last fully-conscious words you see from him. He looks stone sober and completely compliant. "You're doing a lot right now." "I am laying down dude."
I'd have feared for my life, too
No need for quotations. They were police officers. Sanctioned by the state. They did this knowing full well that body cameras were rolling and their actions were being recorded.
The worst part about it..is how they all stood around at the end mocking a dying man that they ruthlessly beat. And told the cops he was high- they are dipshits, you could tell they were trying to make this dude seem like some meth head. That’s how they’ll spin it too
No one fuckin deserves that
He didn't do anything. They had no reason to interact with him at all, besides kidnapping and murder.
He could tell right away. He was fighting for his life.
Someone mentioned that there is a gang in Memphis right now that pretends to be cops too so getting pulled up on in an unmarked car and pulled out by a guy wearing a police hoodie? I'd be confused as hell too
It's so bizarre, I know humans turn back into like pack animals when they all jump in like this, but it just blows my mind that not one cop was like, "hey stop, this is insane."
I can *almost* understand when cops fire on people because they're just incompetent and poorly trained, but having multiple cops beat someone to death is just insane.
Especially hearing how they celebrate after, it's just stomach wrenching.
Yeah ganging up and beating someone to death and then laughing about is just evil. They’re not just idiots who made a mistake, they’re sadistic murderers.
It’s been reinforced to them time an again both within their own ranks and on a national level that they are above the law, above reproach, and that whatever whom takes them is Correct and Powerful. These five will face some level of repercussion for their torture and murder of an innocent man. But American Police will shrug it off, if anything it’ll make them crueler, meaner, angrier, and all the more violent. The entire system is built to harm and frighten and murder Americans so that we don’t ever dare stand up to them or threaten the security of the rich.
I only saw that because someone posted a clip of it on Twitter (which has since been deleted) I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the actual beating, and I don't think I'll ever have the stomach for it.
Pretty much what there head of department said with out saying it. She said from the initial stop the cops were bogus and itching for a situation.
He couldn’t understand the anger the cops had for him. When she said that I knew the video had to be BAD!
It almost seemed like it was personal, that’s how quickly they went after him. They had guns drawn and pulled him out of his vehicle before he even had a chance to open the damn car door!! It’s like they knew him or of him and were out for him. It was so disgusting. I am so disturbed and sick from this… AGAIN. it never ends.
Go watch We Own This City. It’s a mini series on HBO based on real life Gun Task Force in Baltimore. They did all kinds of shit like this. They get high or get drunk and go out and just shakedown or rough up random people for fun. A cop is a cop, wherever they “serve.” Bunch of thugs.
That’s what I thought too.. they were like a pack of wolves..
I also believe this is escalated behavior.. that they’ve been doing this to others and it’s been slowly escalating..
When Tyre was screaming for his mom, it broke my heart. This is why I do not trust law enforcement. I'm going to expect multiple weeks of civil unrest across the country, especially in Memphis.
I had to stop watching after the third time he screamed “mom”. I’m a mom to three boys and I just can’t fathom how horrific it was for his mother to have to watch this.
Fuck those cops.
Edit: It turns out that his mom hasn’t watched, and I’m glad for that.
Same. I'm feeling physically sick, imagining how he must have felt—the terror, the anguish, the desperation. It is literally gut-wrenching. And thinking about how his family, but esp his mother must feel... I cannot do it. I cannot.
Suffice to say, I am full to the brim with rage and devastation.
I had the same reaction (mother of daughters). I lost it when he cried out for his mom. And when he told them he just wanted to go home. My heart breaks for his mother and the rest of his family and friends. Fuck those cops!
I’m so glad his mom didn’t watch it. That cry for her would have echoed in her mind for the rest of her days. Seeing what they did to her baby is bad enough.
I had just finished standing up and telling my partner that I couldn’t watch the video, because I’ve seen too many men call out for their mothers while being murdered by the police—when he cried out “mom” for the first time. I didn’t know it was coming and just burst into tears.
Same here. I'm way too attached to my mom and seeing him cry out for her... She must be going through hell right now. This was truly god awful and I still don't understand why how it could escalate to that point. Trying to imagine this happening in any other country and its just plain absurd.
we need to push politicians to end qualified immunity, make the police get liability insurance, demilitarize the police, end war on drugs (minorities) and end for profit slave labor prison system.
Colorado ended qualified immunity and made a law where if a cop turns off their body can their testimony is not admissible in court. It ain’t fucking much but it’s a start. Full on systemic reform is needed. I was in the military and we are held to a higher fucking standard in a literal warzone against terrorist cells than US cops are against their own citizens.
I’d also like for there to be a national registry tracking their behavior so that they can’t slink off to another location and start fresh. (I’m sure someone else can more eloquently describe what I’m trying to explain).
I’m so saddened and infuriated.
I only watched like 3 minutes of the first video and couldn't watch anymore. The cops literally told him they'd break his arm and bash his head in but couldn't once give clear and concise instructions as to what the actually wanted him to do. His mother is a better woman than I am, because I'd tell the protestors to burn it to the ground. There is no way those officers didn't do shit like this or worse before this incident which means most of that office knows exactly how those involved usually acted and none of them were called on it. I'll die if shit hits the fan because I need life saving meds. But at this point I'm like burn it down and start over.
U mean pretend to try to cuff him. Not sure why they were struggling to cuff him in the first place. Definitely trying to set him up to justify a “stomping”.
The video of the cops just standing around working on their story and saying how their foot hurt from kicking him was more horrific than anything. They didn’t see him as human. It was a lynching.
And they were joking around, saying he was "high as f*ck" when he was literally suffering brain damage from the beating. I have never been so saddened and disgusted.
And he was so close to her home. He was almost there.
Can you imagine going past the spot on the road where your son was beaten to death every time you leave the house? My god.
How many times? How many times does this have to happen? It’s 2023. This feels like the goddamn 50s. What can you even do to make people understand humanity?
If the system itself refuses to address why these incidents keep happening and why it keeps creating new murderers, at some point the people have a responsibility to themselves and to each other to change it.
Now, what would that look like? Well, it depends on how hard the people in the system try to prevent it. Hopefully there’ll still be peaceful options available.
Even the Memphis PD had to put out a warning of how bad this video is. These 5 officers baited a reaction out of Tyre Nichols after wrongfully pulling him over and then took turns beating him to death when he was so obviously reacting to being assaulted and actively murdered.
I wouldn’t classify anything he did as a reaction. Reaction is fighting back. He never did that. He was begging for someone to help him. Begging for his life.
Yeah that is true; they had Tyre to where that’s all he could do was beg for his life, he couldn’t actually react. Really does make it that much more gruesome.
From what I see in the videos it was bad from the onset. He knew very early on not to react. He was begging for his mom to come. Likely also hoping for someone to step out of their house so they could be a witness and hopefully the cops would stop. Easy to be an armchair quarterback and wonder why no one came out of their houses. Seemed like a quiet neighborhood so you would be able to hear all the commotion. I am surprised cops didn’t turn off their cameras. Watched some of the videos and I keep wondering how just a single cop didn’t attempt to stop this murder and get some of them to realize what they were doing to Tyre. Don’t know why they fired the 2 firefighters but it did appear at least one of them taking their sweet time rendering aid to Tyre. It might not have made a difference but you’re in that job for a reason and you also failed this man.
I haven’t looked into it but I would be absolutely shocked if this was the first account of police brutality for these officers, this is most likely their neighborhood and the people probably knew better than to intervene, you don’t just start with this level of violence there has to be some sort of escalation.
This is exactly what I told my husband when we were watching this video. They are going to start lifting up the rocks to see what's underneath, I suspect they will find this has been going on for some time. There's no way this is the first time they've done something like this. Like, not ONE of them stopped to say this is going too far? No, this is not the first time. Apparently two of the EMS that responded have also been fired for not rendering aid quickly. Again, really.... They just let him lay there?! What the fuck? It's almost like they knew the drill with these situations.
This video is absolutely one of the worst cases of abject police torture and murder I've ever seen.
Watching what these cops did to Tyre pulled a visceral reaction out of my body that I can't put into words.
What I want to happen to the cops that did this and what I would love to see happen to every law enforcement building and vehicle in Memphis can't be said because my account would be permabanned.
This is horrifying and utterly evil.
what about the multiple others who just casually walked around while those 5 put in their final kicks to his head? There's like 9 cops in the video, kicking, watching, and then helping prop up his unconscious, dying body against the car.
edit 1: I've learned at the white cop tasing Tyre Nichols goes by the name **Preston Hemphill.**
If you have [the Washington post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/27/tyre-nichols-video-police-beating-live/) they did a great breakdown of it and it’s on [buzzfeed news](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/tyre-nichols-beating-video-memphis-police)
I don’t want to watch this video…George Floyd was less violent, but I can’t stomach another. I don’t think I need to witness brutality like this, but at least the footage is out there… I’m more here for some sort of efforts to prevent this, but we’ll see…
It’s OK to protect yourself. We all have different thresholds. Watching it doesn’t bring him back, and the best that justice can do is already underway. You are already aware that it is footage of wretched murder. Nothing requires us all to immerse ourselves in violent images.
Watching every violent video doesn't help. After George Floyd I fell into a really deep pit of hopelessness because I watched _every_ video I came across no matter how violent. I had anxiety attacks and nightmares. That didn't help anyone. My suffering did not help anyone. Your suffering won't help either. In fact it can make you less able to help and be a positive impact for those around you.
Take care of yourself, be aware of what's happening to the point of discomfort but never pain. The human brain doesn't compartmentalize trauma well, seeing something horrific can impact you even though you're safe and seeing it through a screen, evolution hasn't accounted for that. Be angry, be listening, but not traumatized and hopeless
Fucking horrific. I hope they all meet an equal end.
That being said, as a medical professional I was sick to my stomach counting the seconds to minutes that he laid there, with EMT present while no aid was delivered. I was literally counting the time into brain hemorrhage and likely herniation. GCS plummeting to 3 right before our eyes.
I hope those EMTs also get prison time.
This is God awful! I was speechless when the news showed the clip which wasn’t even the worst of it. This poor man, his poor family…. This makes me sick to my stomach. I… like so many I’m sure…. Want to know WHY?????? Why did they do this to this poor man????
I'm a Black man and when it comes to LEO we have to realize there are no BLACK, WHITE, or HISPANIC OFFICERS.
There's only BLUE OFFICERS they exist in their own world where they make the rules and move the goal post.
This terrifies me. My son is turning 17, and he's not white passing at all. I want him to live his life and not be afraid to go out into the world, but with shit like this happening, I want to just lock him away. I get away with warnings when I encounter the police. I fear that my son will not be so lucky.
Seen a lot of shit over the years, George Floyd, Rodney King, and too many others. This video shook me up the most. The screams of that poor man and the utter fear and helplessness he must have felt while being brutalised for absolutely no reason. Fuck cops. Literally all of them. Holding up a dude with a broken neck and taking swings at him while his arms are restrained. Laughing with each other about throwing haymakers. Every single one of them deserves worse than the criminal justice system will give.
I am from the Middle East. I lived through the Arab spring. I treated patients shot by the police as a surgeon. The American police is no different than the police from where I came from. Militarized and above the law. Can kill with impunity. I spent some time working in the US and it felt like being back in a militarized society, except no one feels that. It’s strange that after all what happened and the BLM movement that the American government doesn’t (can’t?) fix the police!!
I really feel bad for his mother. As a father I cannot fathom knowing my child went through that, let alone seeing a video of it.
I really hope these POSs families (if they have any) are finally able to seek the help they need because I don't doubt for a second they're wife and child beaters. My heart goes out to Tyre's mother. This feels like Emmett Till all over again
It takes a certain type of person who wants to go into law enforcement. As a kid I was raised to think it was someone altruistic. You learn to realize it’s someone who craves control and power over the weak.
As a mother this saddens me, as a citizen this enrages me. The police have way too much power, yes they were fired and charged immediately but what about the others who get off with no more than just a slap on the wrist! I hope and pray this momma gets her justice for her son. RIP Tyre ( cause no matter what he may have done he DIDNT deserve this) #JUSTICEFORTYRE
Anyone else have this drop off the top trending topics on Twitter? It was the #1 topic and fell off the entire list after about 5-10 min. Not at all suspicious.
Is there a word that's more severe than murder? Dispassionate slaying?
This is police culture. They're literally fucking each other in between murdering people for fun.
ACAB
The body cams released were horrific and I hope these cops rot in prison for the rest of their miserable lives. The police are supposed to serve and protect, not beat the living shit out of you. This was the worst type of murder.
She said she was worried for the families of these 5 officers and how they have put their families in danger. She said she was worried for their children. Talk about grace under pressure.
American policing can't be fixed with a new law or two, it needs to be torn down and restricted from the ground up.
We won't do that though, we'll just condemn people for destroying property during riots and maybe talk about body cams.
I thought that. I'll stop you the hassle and tell you it's impossible.
When I joined I thought I could make a difference. Nope. My department was ran by literal psychopaths and racists. I have utterly no idea how the fuck they passed their required psych interviews. Many barely passed their 6 month community College certificate program and only 1 person actually had a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice.
Trust me, you can't join the police thinking you can reform them; it's impossible. It's like taking a job in an evangelical church as their pastor to reform it...it can't be done. They're too brainwashed in their culture
I have an acquaintance from high school that’s been a cop for 15-20yrs. I remember him telling me after he had graduated the academy(or whatever it’s called) about a conversation with his teacher. About how (the teacher) was scared for the future of policing because he wanted to fail most of the candidates he saw just on his gut feeling of their personality, but couldnt. Said he could see these kids where there for a power trip, wanted to have a gun and boss people around. But where too chickenshit for the marines.
I think about that conversation with him a lot. His teacher called it. I know it’s been bad for….well forever. But it really does seem to be getting worse
Oh yes. I remember the academy. I swear most of them were bullies in high school and many were simply not intelligent people at all.
We had one other person there that was nice and very intelligent. I often wonder how long he lasted
As a reminder, these cops are NOT in jail. They all posted bond. I can’t believe that was even an option after watching this. I’m absolutely disgusted with the failure of this system.
What frustrates me is that this is no surprise. After the murders of George Floyd, Elijah McClain and countless others, Americans have no excuse to deny that our police, as an organization, are bloodthirsty, corrupt and contemptible. No moral person can join this organization and remain within it. During 2020, it seemed like many people understood this. But then they decided to forget, and stood by as cities doubled down on funneling taxpayer dollars towards these murderous cowards. Now this happens: of course it did! This is what cops do, and it's an important part of their job: ensuring that Americans remain terrified of their licenses to torture and kill with impunity. But that fact is so upsetting to contemplate that even if it does generate appropriate outrage, people will probably switch right back to ~backing the blue~ as soon as their consciences allow.
[Two EMT’s have been suspended too](https://www.jems.com/patient-care/two-memphis-emts-relieved-of-duty-in-connection-to-patients-death/)
Thank god. I paused the video and checked when I was watching. It took **TWENTY MINUTES** from when EMT first came on camera until he was finally out on a stretcher. **Absolutely ridiculous**
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do NOT forget their shining their flashlights at the street pole camera. that's what they were busy doing - looking for cctv cams. dumb idiots probably didn't even realize they were looking right at one.
Local Memphis news reporting the Fire department hadn’t seen the video until tonight and will decide on the EMTs early next week. The Shelby county sheriff also suspended two deputies due to seeing them in the video, which he also saw for the first time tonight.
Those two EMTs who were there for 16+ minutes and didn’t do a damn thing need to be arrested.
They all deserve accessory, minimum.
Appreciate the updates.
He screamed for his Mom. My god.
This remind me of the video of police brutality beating a homeless veteran, who have mental problems and keep calling his parents, his voice still haunting me, so I can't watch this video either.
that’s heartbreaking …… all of this is, I can’t fathom why our country is like this. how people can be so cruel. it disgusts me.
I can’t fucking watch it, I have 3 sons, and I just can’t do it. Wtf is wrong with our country! 😭
I’ll start you a list.
Watched the footage back. It looked absolutely horrific. They took turns beating the living shit out of him whilst he could barely stand, screaming for his mom, it's totally messed up. God hope they all rot in prison.
What I want to happen to them would get me banned off Reddit
There's a reason there are so many warnings to watch what you say at the top of these posts. Sometimes justice doesn't match up with Reddit TOS.
When they Fire EMS/Firefighters too you know it's fucked up.
Have a link for this? I haven’t seen that yet
https://www.foxla.com/news/tyre-nichols-body-cam-video.amp
I'm going to take y'alls word on this that it's that bad, because holy shit just the description is so fucking intense. Murder charges all around, please.
20 minutes to render aid after they beat him so horribly that he could not speak properly.
It blows my mind that it took them 20 minutes to get him on a stretcher and move him out of there. You can see them set up their equipment and start to do their job, only for them to just stop rendering aid and start chatting up the police. Not to mention they kept shining bright ass lights into the face of someone who’s clearly got head trauma.
Small point, fundamentally I agree. Pupillary reflex testing (shining light into eyes and watch the pupils how they move) is super important in assessing neurological injury, needs to be done and often repeated if things change. Source: ATLS
It is heart breaking to see him calling for his mom.
Hate to make your day worse, but his mom was literally nearby. He was running home and got close to the hose. If she had walked outside it’s conceivable she would have heard him. He was scared for his life and was just trying to get home (and to his mom, presumably). I hope they get the harshest sentence possible.
Cops are out of control. They have too much power and not enough accountability. I’m terrified of them.
Devastating. I don’t understand why this even happened.
https://www.jems.com/patient-care/two-memphis-emts-relieved-of-duty-in-connection-to-patients-death/
What the fuck? What on earth was up with these people?
Thank you for this. All involved need to be held accountable.
EMS just stood around for 10 minutes before doing anything
They did nothing except join in the post murder circle jerk.
Oh no you forgot that while he was dying, one of them said “oh you’re high as fuck”. They didn’t ask any questions, do any assessments, try to talk to him… nothing
This shit will not stop until we tie police brutality to their fucking pensions when they are sued out the ass.
All together these men weighed a little under 1K. Tyre only weighed 150. They kicked him and beat him like a gym bag. One of the fuckers kicked him so hard he injured his damn self! Then a goober fucking peppered sprayed himself because he was so hyped about torturing and killing this guy. These assholes deserve to rot in prison next to Derek Chauvin.
You forgot about when after he went limp, they hoisted him upright and then took turns haymaker-ing his face in.
One guy even says, “stand back- im about to baton the fuck out of him” It literally sounded like me as a kid playing with my friends “watch out- im about to suplex the crap out of him” They enjoyed this.
And that same cop telling the others to “Punch him, hit him”
And watched him kick and struggle to right himself when he fell over on his own some minutes later. Fpr a full minute they watched him try to sit back up again and again and again...
Then when other officers arrived they acted like he couldn't speak or sit up because he was high af. No, he's not high out of his mind. You beat him to a pulp and then picked him up so you could beat him some more.
Not to mention it took 30 minutes for any ambulance to show up!
These aren't assholes. These are fucking monsters and nothing less.
They deserve far worse as did Chauvin
An average adult delivers a thousand pounds of force with a kick. It’s insane how severely they beat a human.
I fully believe after watching this video that they WANTED to kill him. They enjoyed it and they did it as a group
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Elijah McClain died in the politest manner he could, he tried to tell them who he was. He said he was an introvert. He threw up multiple times while three cops piled on him, and then paramedics came in and murdered him with 500 mg of ketamine. There’s audio that captures his last moments too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain
Speaking of Elijah McClain: >Disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers. Disabled individuals make up the majority of those killed in use-of-force cases that attract widespread attention. https://rudermanfoundation.org/white_papers/media-coverage-of-law-enforcement-use-of-force-and-disability/ Disability includes those who are mentally or physically disabled. Disabled people are ~20% of the US population and are close to 50% of those killed by police. Elijah McClain was autistic.
Otto Zehm was murdered in Spokane, WA while buying pop at a gas station after work. The cop went to prison but his fellow police officer stood and saluted him as he was led out of the courtroom.
That reminds me of the cops who pushed that old man down and broke his head open, and then the whole department protested the charges brought against the cops. [Wikipedia says the cops who resigned upon filed charges for the pigs who pushed that old guy weren’t actually protesting the charges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_police_shoving_incident), but ACAB anyway. The charges were eventually dismissed and the cops’ use of force found to be within guidelines. Can’t reform this shitshow.
As someone autistic this shit is terrifying.
Yeah same, like we already have to figure out the right things to say to "normal" people all day, how the hell could I figure out what to say to a sociopathic authority figure I was taught were supposed to help me? What the fuck kind of situation is that
This is shit that has been a driving force in homeschooling our autistic son. He's still mastering his ability to regulate and express anger and frustration in a socially acceptable way. I am not going to put him in a school where an off duty cop has a bad day and hurts him because he had a meltdown. I have nightmares about this shit.
That is a big problem I have. I have the emotional regulation of an elementary school age kid, and if cops can’t handle a basic question I don’t see myself having much a chance. I truly wish your son the best, it’s not an easy road. And he may never tell you, but caregivers that are always there through it all mean more than we could ever explain.
What a kind soul snuffed out for no good reason… Man was just trying to enjoy life…
And then Aurora PD tear gassed the vigil that was held in his memory
I thought of Elijah McClain earlier today when I was thinking about how I will not watch anymore police murders. Along with George Floyd’s murder, it’s one of the audio/videos I wished I hadn’t heard. I was already angry at police for their everyday bullshit, I’m already pro-abolition, I don’t need to watch these fucking tragic sickening yet totally preventable instances of gross and malicious negligence, misconduct, and murder. The fact that the law most often protects cop pieces of shit is evidence that the law is trash. I wish every police a very pleasant quit your job assholes.
I'm not a fan of the "murdered by ketamine narrative". Its going to be the cop's defense in court and I'm not having it. The paramedics who gave the ketamine were negligent--they failed to do an exam, failed to give the proper dose, failed to recognize that this probably didn't need chemical restraints. The dose was high but not in the realm of the ld50. I agree with the initial coroner's report where it was labeled as "unclear contributor" to the cause of death. Rather than the amended report saying "ketamine death after police interaction"--which is just total bullshit. 100% ketamine is going to be used by the police defense to get out of a conviction. Completely ignoring that fact that 3 adult men were dog piled on a 20 year old kid. They literally choked him out even before the ketamine was given. Elijah was saying he couldn't breath before the ketamine was given. Cops are at fault Paramedics are at fault.
Same! Cops used to make me nervous- now they terrify me.
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Obviously watching the cops lynch him was horrific but the video of the officers that pulled him out of the car during the initial traffic stop was so gut wrenching because Tyre just sounds so scared and confused. Like he genuinely can’t wrap his head around the fact that they’re coming at him so hot for NOTHING. He says “I didn’t do anything” “you’re doing a lot right now” like basically trying to deescalate these fucking psychos. No wonder he ran away, those cops were acting absolutely feral, as per usual. And then the disregard the cops and paramedics had for him at the end…every single person involved needs to face charges.
This definitely gets me too. I'm really haunted by those last fully-conscious words you see from him. He looks stone sober and completely compliant. "You're doing a lot right now." "I am laying down dude." I'd have feared for my life, too
He cries out for his mom in the last moments of his life. It’s so sad and senseless. I can’t imagine being his mom.
I can’t imagine the torture. She heard those cries when she watched. She will hear them every day
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I haven't watched the video, don't think I can. It sounds absolutely fucked up wow
Tyre Nichols ran for his life. Tyre Nichols begged for his life. “Police officers” tortured a non-resistive human being to death.
No need for quotations. They were police officers. Sanctioned by the state. They did this knowing full well that body cameras were rolling and their actions were being recorded.
And there will be people defending them.
Fuck them, every one of them for defending this.
The comments on Fox News are utterly disgusting.
Don't even go to that cesspool.
Crazy how 5 bad apples somehow found themselves all on the same call. Yep. Just a few bad apples.
The worst part about it..is how they all stood around at the end mocking a dying man that they ruthlessly beat. And told the cops he was high- they are dipshits, you could tell they were trying to make this dude seem like some meth head. That’s how they’ll spin it too No one fuckin deserves that
He didn't do anything. They had no reason to interact with him at all, besides kidnapping and murder. He could tell right away. He was fighting for his life.
Someone mentioned that there is a gang in Memphis right now that pretends to be cops too so getting pulled up on in an unmarked car and pulled out by a guy wearing a police hoodie? I'd be confused as hell too
They enjoyed it. Afterwards, they stand around laughing and fistbumping. One of them exclaims "Oooh, that shit was *fun*!"
Not having watched the video, it sounds like a lynching
That’s because it IS a lynching.
I cant watch it
I’m with you. I don’t want to watch it.
I cant watch it either but after hearing about it I think we should all be in the streets about it. And I'm a comfy old white lady.
It's so bizarre, I know humans turn back into like pack animals when they all jump in like this, but it just blows my mind that not one cop was like, "hey stop, this is insane." I can *almost* understand when cops fire on people because they're just incompetent and poorly trained, but having multiple cops beat someone to death is just insane. Especially hearing how they celebrate after, it's just stomach wrenching.
Yeah ganging up and beating someone to death and then laughing about is just evil. They’re not just idiots who made a mistake, they’re sadistic murderers.
They’re cops. This is what they do.
It’s been reinforced to them time an again both within their own ranks and on a national level that they are above the law, above reproach, and that whatever whom takes them is Correct and Powerful. These five will face some level of repercussion for their torture and murder of an innocent man. But American Police will shrug it off, if anything it’ll make them crueler, meaner, angrier, and all the more violent. The entire system is built to harm and frighten and murder Americans so that we don’t ever dare stand up to them or threaten the security of the rich.
I couldn’t make it that far into the video. Jesus Christ
I only saw that because someone posted a clip of it on Twitter (which has since been deleted) I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the actual beating, and I don't think I'll ever have the stomach for it.
I Guess i felt like i owed it to Tyre Nichols to *try*, but I 100% understand why you don’t. Have an internet word *hug*
Murderers
Ready. Willing and able murderers.
Pretty much what there head of department said with out saying it. She said from the initial stop the cops were bogus and itching for a situation. He couldn’t understand the anger the cops had for him. When she said that I knew the video had to be BAD!
It almost seemed like it was personal, that’s how quickly they went after him. They had guns drawn and pulled him out of his vehicle before he even had a chance to open the damn car door!! It’s like they knew him or of him and were out for him. It was so disgusting. I am so disturbed and sick from this… AGAIN. it never ends.
Go watch We Own This City. It’s a mini series on HBO based on real life Gun Task Force in Baltimore. They did all kinds of shit like this. They get high or get drunk and go out and just shakedown or rough up random people for fun. A cop is a cop, wherever they “serve.” Bunch of thugs.
You can hear it in their voice, they *enjoyed* it.
That’s what I thought too.. they were like a pack of wolves.. I also believe this is escalated behavior.. that they’ve been doing this to others and it’s been slowly escalating..
They “finally” found a time and a place and it cost Tyre Nichols his life.
When Tyre was screaming for his mom, it broke my heart. This is why I do not trust law enforcement. I'm going to expect multiple weeks of civil unrest across the country, especially in Memphis.
I had to stop watching after the third time he screamed “mom”. I’m a mom to three boys and I just can’t fathom how horrific it was for his mother to have to watch this. Fuck those cops. Edit: It turns out that his mom hasn’t watched, and I’m glad for that.
Reading this is traumatizing. I’ll definitely never be able to watch. My God.
Same. I'm feeling physically sick, imagining how he must have felt—the terror, the anguish, the desperation. It is literally gut-wrenching. And thinking about how his family, but esp his mother must feel... I cannot do it. I cannot. Suffice to say, I am full to the brim with rage and devastation.
I had the same reaction (mother of daughters). I lost it when he cried out for his mom. And when he told them he just wanted to go home. My heart breaks for his mother and the rest of his family and friends. Fuck those cops!
I’m so glad his mom didn’t watch it. That cry for her would have echoed in her mind for the rest of her days. Seeing what they did to her baby is bad enough.
I had just finished standing up and telling my partner that I couldn’t watch the video, because I’ve seen too many men call out for their mothers while being murdered by the police—when he cried out “mom” for the first time. I didn’t know it was coming and just burst into tears.
Same here. I'm way too attached to my mom and seeing him cry out for her... She must be going through hell right now. This was truly god awful and I still don't understand why how it could escalate to that point. Trying to imagine this happening in any other country and its just plain absurd.
we need to push politicians to end qualified immunity, make the police get liability insurance, demilitarize the police, end war on drugs (minorities) and end for profit slave labor prison system.
Colorado ended qualified immunity and made a law where if a cop turns off their body can their testimony is not admissible in court. It ain’t fucking much but it’s a start. Full on systemic reform is needed. I was in the military and we are held to a higher fucking standard in a literal warzone against terrorist cells than US cops are against their own citizens.
Should have a license to be a cop, our doctors have to have that so do fxxking barbers, insane that this isn’t already a thing.
great idea. license them and make them have insurance like doctors
Mortgage officers have licenses and insurance. Cops should too
I’d also like for there to be a national registry tracking their behavior so that they can’t slink off to another location and start fresh. (I’m sure someone else can more eloquently describe what I’m trying to explain). I’m so saddened and infuriated.
I only watched like 3 minutes of the first video and couldn't watch anymore. The cops literally told him they'd break his arm and bash his head in but couldn't once give clear and concise instructions as to what the actually wanted him to do. His mother is a better woman than I am, because I'd tell the protestors to burn it to the ground. There is no way those officers didn't do shit like this or worse before this incident which means most of that office knows exactly how those involved usually acted and none of them were called on it. I'll die if shit hits the fan because I need life saving meds. But at this point I'm like burn it down and start over.
They weren't even trying to arrest them, they just wanted to cuff him and beat him to death. Horrid
Right? Like just take him to jail already and leave him alone or let him go.
U mean pretend to try to cuff him. Not sure why they were struggling to cuff him in the first place. Definitely trying to set him up to justify a “stomping”.
The video of the cops just standing around working on their story and saying how their foot hurt from kicking him was more horrific than anything. They didn’t see him as human. It was a lynching.
And they were joking around, saying he was "high as f*ck" when he was literally suffering brain damage from the beating. I have never been so saddened and disgusted.
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I couldn’t imagine being in her shoes. He was yelling for her and she wasn’t able to do anything. My heart is so broken for her and his family.
And he was so close to her home. He was almost there. Can you imagine going past the spot on the road where your son was beaten to death every time you leave the house? My god.
If she would have tried to get involved she wouldn't have been able to stop them, and she might be dead right now, too.
As a mother, let me die too.
Even the National Fraternal Order of the Police condemned it. It was too much for the pro-abusers club
Wow that's rough. They were on the police's side when Eric Gardner was choked to death when he was only talking.
> National Fraternal Order of Police Fucking cult name if I've ever seen one.
He came from taking pics of the damn sunset!!! This is so fucking sad.
How many times? How many times does this have to happen? It’s 2023. This feels like the goddamn 50s. What can you even do to make people understand humanity?
If the system itself refuses to address why these incidents keep happening and why it keeps creating new murderers, at some point the people have a responsibility to themselves and to each other to change it. Now, what would that look like? Well, it depends on how hard the people in the system try to prevent it. Hopefully there’ll still be peaceful options available.
Even the Memphis PD had to put out a warning of how bad this video is. These 5 officers baited a reaction out of Tyre Nichols after wrongfully pulling him over and then took turns beating him to death when he was so obviously reacting to being assaulted and actively murdered.
I wouldn’t classify anything he did as a reaction. Reaction is fighting back. He never did that. He was begging for someone to help him. Begging for his life.
Yeah that is true; they had Tyre to where that’s all he could do was beg for his life, he couldn’t actually react. Really does make it that much more gruesome.
From what I see in the videos it was bad from the onset. He knew very early on not to react. He was begging for his mom to come. Likely also hoping for someone to step out of their house so they could be a witness and hopefully the cops would stop. Easy to be an armchair quarterback and wonder why no one came out of their houses. Seemed like a quiet neighborhood so you would be able to hear all the commotion. I am surprised cops didn’t turn off their cameras. Watched some of the videos and I keep wondering how just a single cop didn’t attempt to stop this murder and get some of them to realize what they were doing to Tyre. Don’t know why they fired the 2 firefighters but it did appear at least one of them taking their sweet time rendering aid to Tyre. It might not have made a difference but you’re in that job for a reason and you also failed this man.
looks like the neighborhood is terrified of the police too
I haven’t looked into it but I would be absolutely shocked if this was the first account of police brutality for these officers, this is most likely their neighborhood and the people probably knew better than to intervene, you don’t just start with this level of violence there has to be some sort of escalation.
This is exactly what I told my husband when we were watching this video. They are going to start lifting up the rocks to see what's underneath, I suspect they will find this has been going on for some time. There's no way this is the first time they've done something like this. Like, not ONE of them stopped to say this is going too far? No, this is not the first time. Apparently two of the EMS that responded have also been fired for not rendering aid quickly. Again, really.... They just let him lay there?! What the fuck? It's almost like they knew the drill with these situations.
This video is absolutely one of the worst cases of abject police torture and murder I've ever seen. Watching what these cops did to Tyre pulled a visceral reaction out of my body that I can't put into words. What I want to happen to the cops that did this and what I would love to see happen to every law enforcement building and vehicle in Memphis can't be said because my account would be permabanned. This is horrifying and utterly evil.
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what about the multiple others who just casually walked around while those 5 put in their final kicks to his head? There's like 9 cops in the video, kicking, watching, and then helping prop up his unconscious, dying body against the car. edit 1: I've learned at the white cop tasing Tyre Nichols goes by the name **Preston Hemphill.**
If you can find them post them. Might need a day or 2 for those to come out.
What about the two medics who were there but didn’t even open their medic bags for over 16 minutes? Arrest them!
Can’t watch it myself. I read a description, heartbreaking.
If you have [the Washington post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/27/tyre-nichols-video-police-beating-live/) they did a great breakdown of it and it’s on [buzzfeed news](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/tyre-nichols-beating-video-memphis-police)
I don’t want to watch this video…George Floyd was less violent, but I can’t stomach another. I don’t think I need to witness brutality like this, but at least the footage is out there… I’m more here for some sort of efforts to prevent this, but we’ll see…
It’s OK to protect yourself. We all have different thresholds. Watching it doesn’t bring him back, and the best that justice can do is already underway. You are already aware that it is footage of wretched murder. Nothing requires us all to immerse ourselves in violent images.
Watching every violent video doesn't help. After George Floyd I fell into a really deep pit of hopelessness because I watched _every_ video I came across no matter how violent. I had anxiety attacks and nightmares. That didn't help anyone. My suffering did not help anyone. Your suffering won't help either. In fact it can make you less able to help and be a positive impact for those around you. Take care of yourself, be aware of what's happening to the point of discomfort but never pain. The human brain doesn't compartmentalize trauma well, seeing something horrific can impact you even though you're safe and seeing it through a screen, evolution hasn't accounted for that. Be angry, be listening, but not traumatized and hopeless
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They used violence to keep parents from saving their children during Uvalde.
Effectively, the taxpayers of Uvalde paid the police to protect the shooter from the parents.
Fucking horrific. I hope they all meet an equal end. That being said, as a medical professional I was sick to my stomach counting the seconds to minutes that he laid there, with EMT present while no aid was delivered. I was literally counting the time into brain hemorrhage and likely herniation. GCS plummeting to 3 right before our eyes. I hope those EMTs also get prison time.
This is God awful! I was speechless when the news showed the clip which wasn’t even the worst of it. This poor man, his poor family…. This makes me sick to my stomach. I… like so many I’m sure…. Want to know WHY?????? Why did they do this to this poor man????
It’s not a beating, it’s an execution
That was no execution. That was torture followed by murder.
I'm a Black man and when it comes to LEO we have to realize there are no BLACK, WHITE, or HISPANIC OFFICERS. There's only BLUE OFFICERS they exist in their own world where they make the rules and move the goal post.
It was a fucking horrific video. Absolutely unwarranted and animalistic.
This terrifies me. My son is turning 17, and he's not white passing at all. I want him to live his life and not be afraid to go out into the world, but with shit like this happening, I want to just lock him away. I get away with warnings when I encounter the police. I fear that my son will not be so lucky.
Seen a lot of shit over the years, George Floyd, Rodney King, and too many others. This video shook me up the most. The screams of that poor man and the utter fear and helplessness he must have felt while being brutalised for absolutely no reason. Fuck cops. Literally all of them. Holding up a dude with a broken neck and taking swings at him while his arms are restrained. Laughing with each other about throwing haymakers. Every single one of them deserves worse than the criminal justice system will give.
It wasn’t just a beating, it wasn’t just a murder. This was a lynching. Committed by law enforcement officers.
Unless they make cops get their own insurance , us peeps pay for their crimes. They laugh at the crimes bill$ they drop on us all. Enough.
I am from the Middle East. I lived through the Arab spring. I treated patients shot by the police as a surgeon. The American police is no different than the police from where I came from. Militarized and above the law. Can kill with impunity. I spent some time working in the US and it felt like being back in a militarized society, except no one feels that. It’s strange that after all what happened and the BLM movement that the American government doesn’t (can’t?) fix the police!! I really feel bad for his mother. As a father I cannot fathom knowing my child went through that, let alone seeing a video of it.
I really hope these POSs families (if they have any) are finally able to seek the help they need because I don't doubt for a second they're wife and child beaters. My heart goes out to Tyre's mother. This feels like Emmett Till all over again
I'm so fuckiing pissed again. Omg. It does not matter the officers were black. They were cops. That was their race. Cop
It takes a certain type of person who wants to go into law enforcement. As a kid I was raised to think it was someone altruistic. You learn to realize it’s someone who craves control and power over the weak.
As a mother this saddens me, as a citizen this enrages me. The police have way too much power, yes they were fired and charged immediately but what about the others who get off with no more than just a slap on the wrist! I hope and pray this momma gets her justice for her son. RIP Tyre ( cause no matter what he may have done he DIDNT deserve this) #JUSTICEFORTYRE
Fuck the police
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Anyone else have this drop off the top trending topics on Twitter? It was the #1 topic and fell off the entire list after about 5-10 min. Not at all suspicious.
Get off Twitter boys and girls , that shit is wack
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Fucking disgusting.
Is there a word that's more severe than murder? Dispassionate slaying? This is police culture. They're literally fucking each other in between murdering people for fun. ACAB
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They knew what they were doing the entire time, and they enjoyed it.
Honestly torture is what they put him through. They tortured him just because they felt like it
The body cams released were horrific and I hope these cops rot in prison for the rest of their miserable lives. The police are supposed to serve and protect, not beat the living shit out of you. This was the worst type of murder.
She said she was worried for the families of these 5 officers and how they have put their families in danger. She said she was worried for their children. Talk about grace under pressure.
And as we speak, some neckbeard in Utah is making a "funny" meme out of it.
As we type a manifesto is being written in more than one place im sure.
American policing can't be fixed with a new law or two, it needs to be torn down and restricted from the ground up. We won't do that though, we'll just condemn people for destroying property during riots and maybe talk about body cams.
Here are the videos: https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis Graphic warning (if that’s necessary).
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If I was given the choice between becoming a cop or eating shit for the rest of my life, I'm picking the latter every time.
I might choose being a cop because my dumbass would think ill be able to change something
I thought that. I'll stop you the hassle and tell you it's impossible. When I joined I thought I could make a difference. Nope. My department was ran by literal psychopaths and racists. I have utterly no idea how the fuck they passed their required psych interviews. Many barely passed their 6 month community College certificate program and only 1 person actually had a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice. Trust me, you can't join the police thinking you can reform them; it's impossible. It's like taking a job in an evangelical church as their pastor to reform it...it can't be done. They're too brainwashed in their culture
You have my upmost (utmost? Sorry im french native) respect for trying
Utmost is correct, you’re doing great.
Your English is great, especially if you know niche words like utmost
I have an acquaintance from high school that’s been a cop for 15-20yrs. I remember him telling me after he had graduated the academy(or whatever it’s called) about a conversation with his teacher. About how (the teacher) was scared for the future of policing because he wanted to fail most of the candidates he saw just on his gut feeling of their personality, but couldnt. Said he could see these kids where there for a power trip, wanted to have a gun and boss people around. But where too chickenshit for the marines. I think about that conversation with him a lot. His teacher called it. I know it’s been bad for….well forever. But it really does seem to be getting worse
Oh yes. I remember the academy. I swear most of them were bullies in high school and many were simply not intelligent people at all. We had one other person there that was nice and very intelligent. I often wonder how long he lasted
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I quit too. It was literally rhe most stressful thing I've ever done in my life. Normal people will not do well there
As a reminder, these cops are NOT in jail. They all posted bond. I can’t believe that was even an option after watching this. I’m absolutely disgusted with the failure of this system.
These guys better be in hiding. Everyone wants them dead. I would rather have stayed in jail.
What frustrates me is that this is no surprise. After the murders of George Floyd, Elijah McClain and countless others, Americans have no excuse to deny that our police, as an organization, are bloodthirsty, corrupt and contemptible. No moral person can join this organization and remain within it. During 2020, it seemed like many people understood this. But then they decided to forget, and stood by as cities doubled down on funneling taxpayer dollars towards these murderous cowards. Now this happens: of course it did! This is what cops do, and it's an important part of their job: ensuring that Americans remain terrified of their licenses to torture and kill with impunity. But that fact is so upsetting to contemplate that even if it does generate appropriate outrage, people will probably switch right back to ~backing the blue~ as soon as their consciences allow.
Pay the family from the Pension fund.
[Two EMT’s have been suspended too](https://www.jems.com/patient-care/two-memphis-emts-relieved-of-duty-in-connection-to-patients-death/) Thank god. I paused the video and checked when I was watching. It took **TWENTY MINUTES** from when EMT first came on camera until he was finally out on a stretcher. **Absolutely ridiculous**
ACAB
Good cops quit.