re: “If Tyre Nichols Had Complied He Would Still Be Alive….”

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That doesn’t mean the cops didn’t murder him. It doesn’t mean they weren’t out to get him and it doesn’t mean they were in the right at any stage of this. It doesn’t even mean that he wasn’t justified in running; maybe he sensed something was up. But the guy didn’t comply and it’s weird that people either can’t see that or just refuse to admit it because they think it’s somehow defending the cops.

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I literally don't give a frick. The supposed professionals in the videos are in blue. And, they ended up being murderers. Period. Yes. Had their victim sufficiently kissed their asses, they may not have killed him. To which I say, so what.

Sure. I'll teach my children not to do that. But, at the end of the day, the cops murdered him. And they did so out of anger and frustration. Nothing more. All over a goddamned traffic stop.

I would not be shocked if many in here have a “Don’t Tread on Me” sticker right above a “Thin Blue Line” sticker.

Finally, I've seen enough videos at this point to know that police have no fricking idea what "resisting" is.

I've seen people thrown to the ground breaking their face over turning their bodies about 1 degree different than the cop wants. Cops have clearly been trained horrendously in this area. They also treat pretty much every human they encounter as if they're some sort of psychic savant. Spitting out streams of conflicting directives and then beating people's arse for failing to discern the correct directive.

They also love to lord their authority over when you when completely unnecessary. A simple one is the fact that for some retarded reason, cops have been trained to refuse to tell you why they've pulled you over until after you give them your license. It's just utter petty bullshite that AGAIN shows that cops are being trained to treat the public as their enemy.

This whol fricking thing was over a traffic stop. Dude didn't have a warrant. Nothing. A fricking traffic stop!

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Instead he ran

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Five dudes are yelling conflicting orders at him and they all are armed. His house was 100 yards away.

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What I just described is military training but I'd be willing to bet they hear the same stuff.

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That’s entirely a different problem all together. Military are trained against threats. An enemy.

Police are supposed to be trained to deal with difficult citizens afforded many rights of a free society.

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November 12, 2021 at 7:33 pm CST

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department has a new crime-fighting unit.

MPD’s new SCORPION Unit launched this week.

SCORPION stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods.

According to MPD, the unit is made up of four teams of officers whose primary focus will be violent crime reduction and the saturation of hot spot areas throughout the city.

The department shared a video of the unit having roll call and preparing to hit the streets Friday for the first time.

This week, Chief CJ Davis vowed to crack down on reckless driving in the city.

“Our efforts are not just to write citations and send them on their way,” Davis said during a crime forum on Wednesday night. “When we identify individuals who are reckless driving to the point where others are in danger, we want to take your car too.”

At Wednesday night’s forum Chief Davis also talked about gun crime.

“In 2021, year to date, there have been more than 15,000 shootings in the city of Memphis, and out of those 15,000, about 2,000 people have been struck or hit by gunfire. These are alarming numbers,” said Davis.

The Crime Commission will hold two more public forums next week in Frayser and South Memphis.

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/mpd-launches-new-scorpion-unit-help-reduce-violent-crimes

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It is now shut-down.

Memphis police’s ‘SCORPION’ unit shut down after fatal Tyre Nichols beating

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This is one of the few times where you can't really assume that. Those cops looked like they had an agenda right from the outset.

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Yes. These bloodthirsty sociopaths were hellbent on inflicting their will on another person in the most violent fashion as possible. The notion that Nichols refused to comply with the “lawful orders” of such sadistic goons is absurd. It is turtles all the way down.

OFFICER: “STEP OUT OF THE CAR! NOW!!!!”

CITIZEN: “Am I being detained?“

OFFICER: “YES!”

CITIZEN: “For what?“

OFFICER: “FOR RESISTING ARREST!”

CITIZEN: “I’m not resisting arrest!”

OFFICER: “YOU ARE NOW!” …proceeds to pummel the citizen senseless with a baton.

I wish I had more downvotes to give the OP.

What many of us have forgotten, and indeed what some of us are taught to willfully disregard, is that in any interaction between citizen and police all participants have a responsibility. Responsibility is not limited to the individual on the time clock. It is perfectly rational to determine that a party has not met their responsibility even in the context of another party grossly disregarding theirs. While I think it's a rational to emphasize the latter, we must not allow that emphasis to obviate recognition of the former.