re: Memphis PD bodycam of Tyre Nichols released

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but you fricks need to stop acting like this was some innocent honor student

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What was his criminal record?

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For fricks sake. Yes he ran and resisted because that’s what he was afraid of. I have no sympathy for any of the parties involved, but you fricks need to stop acting like this was some innocent honor student who was targeted by these clown cops

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Tyre Nichols’ mom described the excruciating moment she saw her savagely battered son in the hospital, knowing immediately that he was “already gone” — as she accused Memphis cops of initially trying to cover up how they fatally beat him “to a pulp.”

RowVaughn Wells told CNN Friday that officers wildly downplayed her 29-year-old son’s injuries and then refused to tell her where he was being treated after the Jan. 7 beating by officers that Memphis’ top cop concedes is “unconscionable” and involved “acts that defy humanity.”

She found him around eight hours after learning he’d been busted — and only because a doctor called at 4 a.m. to find out why she was not at her son’s hospital bedside after he’d gone into cardiac arrest and his kidneys started failing.

“When my husband and I got to the hospital and I saw my son — he was already gone,” Wells said of Nichols, who “would have been a vegetable” even if he had survived.

“They had beat him to a pulp … They actually just beat the crap out of him,” she said.

“He had bruises all over him. His head was swollen like a watermelon. His neck was busting because of the swelling. They broke his neck. My son’s nose look like a ‘S,'” she said of the injuries photographed by her husband, Nichols’ stepdad Rodney Wells.

“So when I saw that, I knew my son was gone then,” she said of her nightmare.

Tyre Nichols’ mom describes agonizing moment she saw son in hospital, accuses of cops of trying to cover up beating

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