The video of the Memphis police officers arrest of Tyre Nichols is set for release to the public on Friday evening. This could result in violent protests on a national scale not yet seen before...

Quote:The warnings have come repeatedly in recent days, each worse than the one before: Video recordings of a traffic stop earlier this month capture a scene of staggering brutality.

The police chief in Memphis condemned the actions of the officers who pulled over Tyre Nichols, who was hospitalized in critical condition after the encounter and later died, as “a failing of basic humanity.” Mr. Nichols’s mother had to stop the video when she tried watching it. A lawyer for the family said the video showed Mr. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, being pummeled like a “human piñata.”

Now, Memphis is bracing for the public release of the footage. The district attorney for Shelby County, Steve Mulroy, said he would provide an update on the investigation on Thursday afternoon.

The video may provide a measure of clarity about the encounter. Little has been disclosed about how the traffic stop over suspicion of reckless driving on Jan. 7 escalated into violence that left Mr. Nichols bloody, swollen and unconscious until he died three days later. But as the wait for its release has dragged out, civic leaders and others in Memphis have also raised concerns about the reaction the footage could provoke among residents who already feel anguished and outraged about Mr. Nichols’s death.

“Bless the city of Memphis,” the Rev. Kenneth Thomas, a pastor at Mt. Olive Cathedral Church, said as he prayed at a community gathering this week. “May you give peace and calm to all of us.”

Officials have sought to assuage residents, promising an aggressive pursuit of accountability. State and federal investigations have begun. Five police officers have already been fired after an internal inquiry by the Memphis Police Department. And after Mr. Nichols’s death, city officials quickly said the video footage would be released, in a step toward transparency that they described as “critically important.”



In Memphis, where nearly two-thirds of residents are Black, the fact that all five of the fired officers are Black has added a complicated layer of pain. “I was waiting for their faces to be on TV,” said Carrie Louis Pinson, a 73-year-old resident and longtime activist, “and when I saw all Black policemen — how could you do this?”

Officials have not disclosed how much video will be shared. In an interview with a local television station on Tuesday, Mr. Mulroy, the district attorney, said there were several videos of the confrontation, including police body camera footage.

In a video statement posted online on Wednesday, Cerelyn Davis, the police chief, said the public would see footage that was infuriating and unsettling. “This incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane,” she said, “and in the vein of transparency, when the video is released in the coming days, you will see this for yourself.”

“I expect you to feel what the Nichols family feels,” Chief Davis added. “I expect you to feel outrage in the disregard of basic human rights, as our police officers have taken an oath to do the opposite of what transpired on the video.”

Mr. Nichols was stopped on the evening of Jan. 7 near the southeastern corner of the city, roughly 100 yards from his parents’ house. The officers who stopped him were part of a group of specialized officers known as the Scorpion Unit, which was created in 2021 to patrol high-crime areas of Memphis.

The police, in an initial statement, said that a “confrontation occurred” as the officers approached Mr. Nichols’s vehicle and he ran away. There was then “another confrontation” as officers arrested him, the statement said. Mr. Nichols complained of shortness of breath, and an ambulance was called to take him to a hospital, officials said.

His family shared photographs of Mr. Nichols in the hospital, apparently unconscious and relying on a ventilator with his face bruised and swollen. He died on Jan. 10.

An independent autopsy commissioned by his family found that Mr. Nichols “suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” according to preliminary findings released on Tuesday.

Last week, the Police Department said the five officers had been fired after a “thorough review of the circumstances surrounding this incident,” which found that they had violated department policies on excessive use of force, duty to intervene and duty to render aid. The Memphis Police Association, the union representing officers, has declined to comment on the accusations.

Memphis Police Officers Arrest Video

Black officers did it. No whites to blame. Will hardly get any national press.

(01-26-2023 09:26 PM)bullet Wrote:  Black officers did it. No whites to blame. Will hardly get any national press.

Parts of the city are still going to burn most likely.

Those dudes all look like white supremacist police. Let's go burn down some stuff.

I’m sure some white antifa dicks will be leading the charge, burning down black-owned businesses to fight white supremacy.

Somehow this will end up being my fault for being born part white, part Cherokee, and straight. Always is, yet i just live my life with no drama such as this, while the human parasites out there continue to lay waste to this once awesome country.

I have no clue what happened and at the moment it sounds like its 100% police brutality but I would like to see what led to the confrontation and not just the beating. You may recall how during they St Floyd riots they just released a clip of him on the ground and never showed the 10-15 minutes of him resisting arrest. We never saw the full thing until well after everything had gone down and weeks of riots and media madness.

I'm not saying the beating here was justified, it may not be at all. But I hope we see the full thing in context so we can know that for sure.

Its hard to believe the cops just pulled the guy over and beat him to death and nothing triggered it. If they did we need to see that clearly and not just get half the picture.

Every state trooper in the state is in Shelby County.

(01-26-2023 09:26 PM)bullet Wrote:  Black officers did it. No whites to blame. Will hardly get any national press.

Any other weekend maybe, but the MSM must cover up the impending release of the pelosi bodycam release...

(01-26-2023 09:26 PM)bullet Wrote:  Black officers did it. No whites to blame. Will hardly get any national press.

A1 this morning

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(01-26-2023 10:12 PM)Chappy Wrote:  I’m sure some white antifa dicks will be leading the charge, burning down black-owned businesses to fight white supremacy.

Only if the checks clear.

Reports are up to 1000 Antifa have come to Memphis.

Atlanta has declared a state of emergency so they could call up the National Guard.

They're throwing a party.

These officers were all trained to attack blacks by white supremacist that secretly control the department.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

(01-26-2023 09:26 PM)bullet Wrote:  Black officers did it. No whites to blame. Will hardly get any national press.

The lawyers involved pivoted from officer race to 'it only happens to black people' with the quickness once they released officer names.

The riots happen after dark, so why on earth would they wait to release the footage tonight?

Why telegraph the release at all? All you are doing is letting the anarchist antifa scumbags bus into town and get organized and then you release it right before or after nightfall?

Lets just do this the stupidest way possible so we can maximize the chaos.

(01-27-2023 08:45 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  The riots happen after dark, so why on earth would they wait to release the footage tonight?

Why telegraph the release at all? All you are doing is letting the anarchist antifa scumbags bus into town and get organized and then you release it right before or after nightfall?

Lets just do this the stupidest way possible so we can maximize the chaos.

Great question. I can tell you this though. Memphis won't be like Seattle.

The governor isn't playing around.

(01-27-2023 08:45 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  The riots happen after dark, so why on earth would they wait to release the footage tonight?

Why telegraph the release at all? All you are doing is letting the anarchist antifa scumbags bus into town and get organized and then you release it right before or after nightfall?

Lets just do this the stupidest way possible so we can maximize the chaos.

Makes no sense. Release it on Monday morning when more people have a lot going on over the next 5 days.

I'm not sure why anyone wants to watch the video. Everyone knows what it's going to show. I guess violent video games and movies have ruined most people's societal norms.

"the officers approached Mr. Nichols’s vehicle and he ran away."

Of course.

(01-27-2023 09:14 AM)Bronco14 Wrote:  "the officers approached Mr. Nichols’s vehicle and he ran away."

Of course.

If you saw your g/f's husband and 4 of his friends, wouldnt you run?


We're bracing in the Memphis burbs - got plenty of beer, plenty of firewood, and plenty of ammo just if the morons decide to get stupid outside the city limits. My wife's friend texted and said we could come stay with them in east TN as there wont be any of this nonsense going on there.