re: Memphis PD bodycam of Tyre Nichols released

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If you're okay with watching a man's death, that's on you bro.

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I'm not your bud and I'm not your bro. Shut the frick up

Yeah the intensity level seems odd.

This wasn’t as bad as I was expecting from a violence standpoint. But those cops handled it about as poorly as possible sans shooting the guy. Once you’ve got him cuffed and essentially “in custody” jumping around and teeing off on his face with fists and your billy club seems…..excessive.

I have no idea what the backstory of this is, but if the wife thing is true it makes sense because some of that definitely seemed personal.

And while it’s not as bad as I expected, it’s definitely a good thing that these dudes won’t be cops anymore.

I was definitely confused at first because I kept seeing and hearing “all black cops” and the first video I saw was a white dude.


ETA: I get the “he isn’t complying” arguments too, but if he truly wasn’t doing anything wrong and these cops confront him at 11/10 intensity, I can understand adrenaline and confusion contributing to some of that.

I was expecting worse.

Watch some old episodes of “Cops” and you’ll see similar actions with criminals resisting arrest.

I don’t understand why some people refuse to obey cops orders, resist arrest and want to fight the officers. Pretty much if you avoid those actions, you won’t die in a police encounter.

Dude OD'd. High AF. That pepper spray dindu nuthin to him

That looks like some Rodney King crap

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they easily could have cuffed him if they wanted to. they knew what they were doing

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This. You have 5 guys built like middle linebackers and his arms held behind his back where they could’ve cuffed him at any moment.

Is he resisting? Yes. Is it their job to get a combative person into their car without literally beating him to death? Hell yes.

If you’ve watched all of the videos and are ok with what transpired then you’re a piece of shite in favor of a authoritarian government and I hope like you hell you lose your right to vote before you doom us all.

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What was he originally pulled over for?

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Reckless driving,

From an audio excerpt on the video, one of the cops said the guy swerved into lanes and almost hit him in his vehicle.

Looks like the same combination of arrogance, stupidity, laziness and lax departmental rules as it usually is.

The light pole camera that they didn’t see tells the story, they are yelling give me your hands when he is clearly cuffed and not resisting and then they just start beating the shite out of him for no reason.

They just murdered this poor guy.

Cops kept talking about him being high and why was he running. The conversation seemed legitimate enough to me that they weren't faking a story to hide a history with this guy.

I think they just pulled him over expecting to deal with some shitehead, and they guy resisted and it pissed him off and instead of de escalating all of the officers were pissed and escalated it.

It was also very lazy police work, they didn't want to put in an effort to cuff him and only 1 or 2 cops were working on holding him to cuff him the first arrest. If they all 4 or 5 would have held him down and cuffed him its over in 30 seconds. If that was a guy with a gun with that lazy of police work they'd have been shot.