Only way I can take concrete anymore and I still go through them fairly fast. Some of those Jordan buyers should likely invest in suspenders or a belt along the way!
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cities bracing for black unrest this weekend.
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No I don’t want to see it either. I keep thinking there has to be more to the story.
I won’t watch either. I guess it’s even in question why he was pulled over. They claim reckless driving but police chief said there was no real evidence of that.
That’s why I wonder if there’s more to this. Seems off
I saw a snippet that didnt look horrid but it was hard to see. It looked bad dont get me wrong. How though with 5 cops and one guy do they need to do that? I didnt see him doing anything to warrant the rage. It wouldnt have been an excuse but not like he was a cop killer they were tracking. I heard he ran and was thinking like ran a long way and he didnt. 5 grown men and again have skimmed but he didnt have a weapon?
next time a kid is shot in their home in a drive by would like to see all the protesters march on the gangs. burn their homes down. Send don lemon to report on it. where about a generation from becoming mexico where the thugs are more powerful than the government
This news account is a good summary
Body cam footage released of Tyre Nichols' deadly arrest
Authorities on Friday released police video depicting five Memphis officers beating a Black man whose death resulted in murder charges and provoked outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality.
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There are 3 videos. The first, I don't know how far into the stop they were, but officer pulls up and they are yanking open door. They pull him out of car and tell him to get on ground. He says he is on ground and is saying ok and he didn't do anything. They have one arm pinned and appear to be trying to get him in position to cuff. Officer whose camera we are watching through goes to taze and the guy bolts. They chase for a bit but he is gone.
Worst is video 2 taken from a CCTV camera. They stop him and are struggling. I saw at least 2 kicks to the head. He was stood up and punched several times. Hit with baton. He wouldn't completely stay down but looked punch drunk too mex particularly after the kicks to the head.
Third video you get the audio. Officer camera that is down kind of taking part in what you can see from CCTV. Not a full view like the CCTV but you get more audio and probably a closer look at some of the worst hits.
It was one of the more egregious videos of this type of thing I have seen. They did not appear to be trying to detain to me and if they were, they are woefully trained at doing it. They even get him up to beat on him. The celebrating and fist bumping after beating the guy aren't a good look either.
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Brutal. Weird deal. Why were the cops so fired up. Why that much aggression from the cops. Why the delay in treatment. On and on.
Kinda makes you wonder if there is something else behind it?
I am NOT suggesting this is the issue, but it COULD be the SCORPION force had some officers who overly bought in to this whole "we are the tip of the spear preserving society" thing. This article makes me think that is possible.
Man recalls physical encounter with SCORPION police unit before Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The five police officers who were fired after Tyre Nichols’ death hadn’t been with Memphis police long before the fatal traffic stop. Police have yet to re…
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Wow yesI am NOT suggesting this is the issue, but it COULD be the SCORPION force had some officers who overly bought in to this whole "we are the tip of the spear preserving society" thing. This article makes me think that is possible.
Man recalls physical encounter with SCORPION police unit before Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The five police officers who were fired after Tyre Nichols’ death hadn’t been with Memphis police long before the fatal traffic stop. Police have yet to re…
I believe the guy in the article based on the initial interaction you see on the video. You do roll up after some police are already on scene but it seems like they were just getting out of their cars and go from zero to 100 immediately.I am NOT suggesting this is the issue, but it COULD be the SCORPION force had some officers who overly bought in to this whole "we are the tip of the spear preserving society" thing. This article makes me think that is possible.
Man recalls physical encounter with SCORPION police unit before Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The five police officers who were fired after Tyre Nichols’ death hadn’t been with Memphis police long before the fatal traffic stop. Police have yet to re…
What do you want to riot about? Racism? The five black officer who killed a black man are charged. The police chief is black. A jury of their peers will hear the case. So what exactly do you want to riot about?
I don't understand a well-publicized friday eve release so people can pregame for it.
Release it quietly at 9 am Monday morning.
Release it quietly at 9 am Monday morning.
Elite badass units that strut their stuff and have different rules are a bad idea.I am NOT suggesting this is the issue, but it COULD be the SCORPION force had some officers who overly bought in to this whole "we are the tip of the spear preserving society" thing. This article makes me think that is possible.
Man recalls physical encounter with SCORPION police unit before Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The five police officers who were fired after Tyre Nichols’ death hadn’t been with Memphis police long before the fatal traffic stop. Police have yet to re…
The Ferguson riots were the best. At one point they somehow got one of those trains you see in malls and were driving that around the streets of Ferguson. Right in the middle of the riots. It looked like one of those immigrant trains with people on the top and hanging off the sides etc
Not to mention just plain stupid. I get trying to overwhelm communities with presence. That’s smart policing. But integrate. Learn names. Not this stupidity. In the day of tech etc. Everything on camera. Entire P firms dedicated to excessive force and jail abuse cases. Stupid asses
Read my posts stoll. I said this wasn’t racism. It was a human rights violation of the absolute worst kind.
Maybe figure out how this happened? There are 40 members of this SCORPION unit introduced in 2021. 1 out of 8 took part in this, that is a high percentage. Did it happen all 5 bad apples where together at one time? Or are there more bad apples? What screening was done? I linked an article with a guy who claimed he called a few times to report a couple of the members but no one returned his calls. So, was there accountability? Do there need to be improvements in how citizen reporting goes?
One cop doing something stupid is bad, but five makes it at least a little more likely there is a systemic problem at least in SCORPION if not beyond.
Right now the demand is too officially disband the unit, it has been paused. I think that is a driver with the protests. I don't know if the citizens will trust the remainder, disbanding makes sense. And the other members maybe need to do some retraining before rejoining the rest of the force. Either this was a strange but possible statistical anomaly that these 5 we're the only ones who thought this was ok, or the unit as a whole was operating fast and loose.
Watched the videos. Traffic stop. Appeared the cops were aggressive and escalating while the guy was still in his car. He immediately got on the ground as ordered but the aggression continued. Guy ultimately ran away. Can you blame him? Probably was thinking “these motherfvckers are going to kill me.” Cops proceeded to beat him to a pulp. Terrible policing. Mob mentality. Bad people. Reprehensible.
Much of this SCORPION force is derived from what Gladwell wrote about in Talking to Strangers. High police presence with broken light policing in extreme high crime areas. It was tested in KC and worked long ago. He spoke of ways it went astray as it rolled out.
This shock and awe aspect is not part of that KC experiment. In KC the idea was to have normal conversations and get them to trip up on what they were saying.
If what these guys did in this stop was close to routine, it is a systemic problem with this unit. It may come from higher up, it may be the nature of being told they are elite, it may just be those 5. But it now needs taught as to what not to do in a simple traffic stop. There may be times capturing a known armed and dangerous this is needed. But they can't make that call on ordinary cases.
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again in this day and age in the time of technology what they did is beyond stupid
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Thanks. That's the kind of thing I was looking for.This news account is a good summary
Body cam footage released of Tyre Nichols' deadly arrest
Authorities on Friday released police video depicting five Memphis officers beating a Black man whose death resulted in murder charges and provoked outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality.
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This stated purpose of this unit seems to make sense:I am NOT suggesting this is the issue, but it COULD be the SCORPION force had some officers who overly bought in to this whole "we are the tip of the spear preserving society" thing. This article makes me think that is possible.
Man recalls physical encounter with SCORPION police unit before Nichols death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The five police officers who were fired after Tyre Nichols’ death hadn’t been with Memphis police long before the fatal traffic stop. Police have yet to re…
“Their job is to identify the target area, flood that area with officers and suppress crime in that area mostly by visibility,” said Memphis Police Deputy Chief Don Crowe. “Just being present and having an officer there sees an impact on it.”
Their tactics, however, remind me of a nightmare version of the Untouchables.
Right, the idea of having a presence in the worst areas fits the KC narrative.
But the tactics come out of some very bad playbook. And they did it knowing body cameras were rolling. That makes me think they did not fear accountability.
Or are really, really stupid.
I assume this is the Memphis PD. I looked up their qualifications. High school or GED. No felonies blah blah blah. Bare minimum stuff. Carry dead weight of at least 175 lbs. ironic.
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Would a college degree change this? I wonder.
Of course, even if it would, we are going to have to spend a lot more money on police in areas with a lower tax base to staff cops with college degrees. How's that going to play out? Fed or state subsidies? This is the kind of equity/reparations I can get behind. Improving infrastructure of poorer areas to give people (esp. kids) a chance of social/economic mobility.
It would help, along with additional training. Federal law enforcement is not without problems but significantly better, more professional, than what you see in cities etc. But yes there would have to be more fed/state subsidies. because pay would have to double. And there are inherent problems to what Marv noted re KC and greater presence. Greater presence of the right kind of trained cops is critical, but it's a numbers problem in many of these bombed out cities. Stl City by way of example once had a million residents. Today it has under 300,000. So the high crime areas aren't concentrated in the sense that it's every house, or street, or business district. It's spread out. There's no way to have a "foot" presence. policing neighborhoods is a real challenge. the acreage is too great. this is true in many other similar cities. it's a real challenge. The state of missouri is in the process of trying to take over control of the stl city police, wrest control away from the city.
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I haven't watched any TV today, but I did hear the hourly CBS news on the radio when I was out and about in my car this morning. They had a report about "mostly peaceful" protests around the country, but didn't say a word about wasn't peaceful. Any of you know what wasn't "mostly peaceful?"
And rioting, looting, burning and violence is needed to investigate the unit?
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