Tyre Nichols murder

Imagine if he'd been called exhaust, or coil spring.
The American police really are on another level of insane power trip in all too many cases. I can't grasp what these 5 were thinking, sure they can't have thought they'd get away with it?!
 
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Dis86 said:
Imagine if he'd been called exhaust, or coil spring.
The American police really are on another level of insane power trip in all too many cases. I can't grasp what these 5 were thinking, sure they can't have thought they'd get away with it?!
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Why won’t they. Everybody has seen the Rodney king videos these should be open and shut cases but they never tend to be. Can’t remember which one it was their seems to be so many but cops didn’t get away with it they sued the police department and got reinstated.

They protect their own first and foremost.
 
Not even surprised at this. Finally got around to watching 'We Own This City' and it really feels like the police need to be harsher policed.

The thing I don't understand is do they think they can get away with behaving like this?
 
Very sad. The level of force is way over the top and their behaviour after the assault is just as disgusting.

Wonder why he did not initially comply and ran off? Guess we will never know.
 
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At the start by his car not sure how so many of them struggled to get cuffs on him, they look like they hadn't even been trained. Watched the aerial footage, looks like they do have cuffs on by that point, should have been the end of it but instead appears like they kick the crap out of him for jollies, mental.
 
I would propose they have got away with far more lesser incidents previously, which gives them the attitude they can get away with dishing out beatings.

I mean, who questions a suspect brought in with lumps and bruises from "resisting arrest" and whose version of events is believed?. This one went too far, but the scale of what they did makes it seem unlikely it was the first time they'd done it.
 
At first I assumed this would have been some sort of planned/revenge attack - corrupt police on somebodies payroll, or dishing out a beating on a known criminal thst escaped justice perhaps? Doesnt look like it though; The videos are crazy.

In the spirit of 'always look on the bright side', at least it was 5 black cops vs 1 black man, so there's a greater chance the debate on policing will actually move forward as a result & not just be hijacked by the BLM/historical oppression types.
 
Nathan said:
Very sad. The level of force is way over the top and their behaviour after the assault is just as disgusting.

Wonder why he did not initially comply and ran off? Guess we will never know.
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First off, the erratic driving excuse the police used to pull him over can't even be substantiated.

Then if you read the BBC he ran off after he was already in fear for his life:

The first clip shows officers pulling Mr Nichols out of his vehicle and shouting at him to get on the ground.

"I didn't do anything!" he says. Officers demand that he lie down flat.

"Get on the [expletive] ground!" one officer shouts, as another is heard saying: "Tase him!"

An officer shouts: "Put your hands behind your back before I break your [expletive]."

"You guys are really doing a lot right now," Mr Nichols says to the officers. "I'm just trying to go home."

Within seconds one of the officers fires a Taser at Mr Nichols, who leaps up and manages to run away.
 
Dis86 said:
The American police really are on another level of insane power trip in all too many cases. I can't grasp what these 5 were thinking, sure they can't have thought they'd get away with it?!
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I think there's a case for their policing mentality breeding dehumanisation with the "criminal" public where by the "power" learned from unregulated violence leads to repetitions only until consequences become too great.

Similar to the way most domestic or animal abusers behave.
 
I watched the BBC reported video, and it just makes me think we only see the tip of the iceberg of these incidents.
No wonder people are scared and untrusting of the police.
 
NVP said:
I think there's a case for their policing mentality breeding dehumanisation with the "criminal" public where by the "power" learned from unregulated violence leads to repetitions only until consequences become too great.

Similar to the way most domestic or animal abusers behave.
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Perhaps they dehumanised him because he shared the name of an inanimate object?
Or perhaps because they're used to dealing with people who consistently border subhuman that they too reach that state? When you're around people of a certain ilk all day, every day, it's difficult not to adapt some of their traits. Plus, let's face it, American police don't have the highest recruitment standards in the first instance.
 
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Doobedoo said:
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You couldn’t tell them apart from a group of thugs looking at them.
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I'm sorry what? Maybe you'd like to expand on exactly what you mean by that?
 
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