Significant questions about Tyre Nichols arrest circumstances remain. Cops' bodycam clips lifted out of context?

Posted by bubah1mau 2 years, 2 months ago to News
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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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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Chauvin was railroaded. Floyd was a known addict. Floyd had just swallowed his dealer's onboard stash of Fentanyl and died from an overdose. It just happened to be while in police custody. If you go back and look, however, the dealer was never charged though he should have been charged with possession, possession with intent to distribute, and second-degree manslaughter.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 2 years, 2 months ago
    Release the body cam footage, end-to-end.
    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.
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  • Posted by 2 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree that the beating was unacceptable but I'd still like to see what led up to the clips I've seen. Something must have enraged those cops. I can't believe people just start beating on someone with no reason at all. At a bare minimum, my guess is that he didn't promptly respond to their sirens and lights to get him to stop and pull over--and there may have been more to it than that.
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  • Posted by mhubb 2 years, 2 months ago
    based on what i saw, Chauvin was following the training he was given

    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"
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