Significant questions about Tyre Nichols arrest circumstances remain. Cops' bodycam clips lifted out of context?
All the bodycam clips and other footage I've seen fail to show events leading up to Nichols being pulled out of his car. Was there a highspeed car chase prior to that, and was Nichols shooting at the officers any time before the chase ensued? Was a weapon displayed or found at the scene, or thrown out of a window during a chase? Reminds me entirely of the Chauvin case where no one picked up on Floyd gulping down a handful of drugs while the initially arresting cops approached the vehicle he was in, and was his ingestion of drugs communicated to Chauvin at any time during the confrontation? If not, Chauvin should have been convicted of no more than manslaughter.
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Only then can we see if the use of force was "excessive" or justified.
Having lived on "the other side of the tracks" I have seen some tough SoB's who would not go quietly. They had to be beaten into submission before the cops could get them in the paddy wagon. Like it or lump it, that's life.
we do need the entire story
he should have had enough sense, however, to not sit on a guy asking for help, that was cuffed
Police NEED to understand that the optics of what they are doing can be really, really bad.
the beating that Nichols took was 100% unacceptable, he was cuffed and under control
what happened to Floyd was his own fault, drugs
what happened to Nichols was caused by those 5 "officers"