As I am not doing a show this Sunday, my written words will have to do, because of the level of anger I have after witnessing the video horror that was Tyre D. Nichols death by cop(s).
If the murder of Tyre Nichols did not disgust you, anger you, sadden you, your humanity is in question. Try to justify what the video evidence shows, and it’s likely your broken in some way.
On Jan. 7, the 29-year-old Nichols, a person of color, was pulled over on ‘suspicion’ of reckless driving in an ‘incident’ perpetrated by 5 law enforcement officers of color. Video footage shows officers pulling Nichols out of the car after which Nichols fled the scene and was apprehended again and beaten to death.
The officers beat Nichols with their fists, a baton, kicks to the head, mace, pepper spray, and a taser. Twenty minutes later… twenty fucking minutes later… one of these brigands called for EMS. When they finally arrive, they seem to move without any particular haste to get him in an ambulance for the lifesaving aid he needed. To which one can only say, WHAT THE FUCK!
The former officers charged with his murder, all of whom are black, were fired last week after an internal investigation and were then arrested Thursday and released on bond within hours.
Five officers of color patrolling a predominantly black neighborhood. Five officers without a hint of decency for one of… ‘Their Own’. And most people of color know that just because officers may share their race, it does not mean better or fair treatment. It can very well lead to bogus charges, or an outcome far worse, as we witnessed.
Diverse policing obviously does not prevent brutality, it does not prevent cops who want to deliver street justice, cops who are pissed that they pepper sprayed each other when trying to ‘subdue’ Tyre, and then had to run themselves breathless to take him down.
They murdered a 29-year-old unarmed man, who by the way, seems to have had no police record, no arrest record, no criminal past, because if he did, I’m sure those lawyers charged with defending those officers, would have certainly let us know that.
One need not wonder why the police are looked upon as an occupying force, the enemy, by those living in crime enriched neighborhoods, AKA, those areas where mainly persons of color live.
The cops of this special enforcement unit that patrols the area of Memphis where Tyre met his doom, have been known to get a bit ‘untidy’ in their enforcement of law and order.
The ‘Scorpion’ unit did what a Scorpion does… KILL. This ‘special’ policing team, oh yeah, they were special alright… specially brutal, killed Tyre, administered a beat down because they could… and then did nothing for 20 minutes after they were satisfied that he was ‘no longer a threat’. Savages, each and every one of them.
Even EMS on the scene were slow in getting Tyre the medical assistance he badly needed. You could even hear one cop say, ‘That was fun’ after helping to permanently subdue Tyre Nichols… ‘Fun’… what a degenerate scumbag.
One wants to support police without equivocation. We want to believe they’re to a man, public servants first, certainly not criminals in disguise. That sure was not true for those thugs in blue who took the life of an unarmed man, with no prior history of criminal activity, an unarmed, gainfully employed man whose life ended for no good fucking reason!
They began to escalate the stop immediately… a traffic infraction stop… or so we are told. And they’ve yet to tell us, just what traffic infraction he committed, if any.
They were pissed from the start, and then got really, really upset, when he literally did run for his life, and they took out their rage on him.
For many police, what we saw was, was business as usual, the type of shit that before body cams and surveillance cams, would go unpunished most every time because the police invariably get the ‘benefit of the doubt’, even though they are trained… trained to lie and back up each other’s lies.
Serial killers, mass murderers, rapist, molesters don’t end up beaten to death like Tyre, who took an unjustified and inhuman beating from pissed off policemen dispensing ‘street justice’… for an alleged traffic violation.
How many beat downs get issued for running a red light? Or for expired tags? Or a signal light out? Or windows a tad too tinted? Any excuse to make a stop, is often excuse enough to lead to disaster.
Yeah, it’s a tough job, blah, blah, blah… BULLSHIT.
Continue reading “THE TYRE NICHOLS ASSASSINATION”
The extended audio version of our article regarding the murder of Tyre D. Nichols, and his family’s sad decision to have long time grifter of persons of color, Al Sharpton, eulogize him at service scheduled for next week. Listen and share this audio with friends and family for a serious dose of common sense about this breach of decency and law.
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Well, it’s been another interesting if not good week for America & the world, especially with mad Vlad continuing to use the threat of nukes to try and scare the west into backing off on it’s support of Ukraine. Not that we will discuss that, because they is so much more to ruminate about.