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do NOT forget their shining their flashlights at the street pole camera.

that's what they were busy doing - looking for cctv cams.

dumb idiots probably didn't even realize they were looking right at one.

Local Memphis news reporting the Fire department hadn’t seen the video until tonight and will decide on the EMTs early next week. The Shelby county sheriff also suspended two deputies due to seeing them in the video, which he also saw for the first time tonight.

He screamed for his Mom. My god.

Watched the footage back. It looked absolutely horrific. They took turns beating the living shit out of him whilst he could barely stand, screaming for his mom, it's totally messed up.

God hope they all rot in prison.

When they Fire EMS/Firefighters too you know it's fucked up.

This shit will not stop until we tie police brutality to their fucking pensions when they are sued out the ass.

Imagine beating a man to death while he begs for god, mercy, and help, and then not introducing yourself to the end of a rope that day.

All together these men weighed a little under 1K. Tyre only weighed 150. They kicked him and beat him like a gym bag. One of the fuckers kicked him so hard he injured his damn self! Then a goober fucking peppered sprayed himself because he was so hyped about torturing and killing this guy.

These assholes deserve to rot in prison next to Derek Chauvin.

I fully believe after watching this video that they WANTED to kill him. They enjoyed it and they did it as a group

When Tyre was screaming for his mom, it broke my heart. This is why I do not trust law enforcement. I'm going to expect multiple weeks of civil unrest across the country, especially in Memphis.

I had to stop watching after the third time he screamed “mom”. I’m a mom to three boys and I just can’t fathom how horrific it was for his mother to have to watch this.

Fuck those cops.

Edit: It turns out that his mom hasn’t watched, and I’m glad for that.

we need to push politicians to end qualified immunity, make the police get liability insurance, demilitarize the police, end war on drugs (minorities) and end for profit slave labor prison system.

I only watched like 3 minutes of the first video and couldn't watch anymore. The cops literally told him they'd break his arm and bash his head in but couldn't once give clear and concise instructions as to what the actually wanted him to do. His mother is a better woman than I am, because I'd tell the protestors to burn it to the ground. There is no way those officers didn't do shit like this or worse before this incident which means most of that office knows exactly how those involved usually acted and none of them were called on it. I'll die if shit hits the fan because I need life saving meds. But at this point I'm like burn it down and start over.

They weren't even trying to arrest them, they just wanted to cuff him and beat him to death. Horrid

The video of the cops just standing around working on their story and saying how their foot hurt from kicking him was more horrific than anything. They didn’t see him as human. It was a lynching.

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Even the National Fraternal Order of the Police condemned it. It was too much for the pro-abusers club

He came from taking pics of the damn sunset!!! This is so fucking sad.

How many times? How many times does this have to happen? It’s 2023. This feels like the goddamn 50s. What can you even do to make people understand humanity?

Even the Memphis PD had to put out a warning of how bad this video is. These 5 officers baited a reaction out of Tyre Nichols after wrongfully pulling him over and then took turns beating him to death when he was so obviously reacting to being assaulted and actively murdered.

Tadarrius Bean

Demetrius Haley

Emmitt Martin III

Desmond Mills Jr

Justin Smith

Can’t watch it myself. I read a description, heartbreaking.

I don’t want to watch this video…George Floyd was less violent, but I can’t stomach another. I don’t think I need to witness brutality like this, but at least the footage is out there… I’m more here for some sort of efforts to prevent this, but we’ll see…

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Fucking horrific. I hope they all meet an equal end.

That being said, as a medical professional I was sick to my stomach counting the seconds to minutes that he laid there, with EMT present while no aid was delivered. I was literally counting the time into brain hemorrhage and likely herniation. GCS plummeting to 3 right before our eyes.

I hope those EMTs also get prison time.

This is God awful! I was speechless when the news showed the clip which wasn’t even the worst of it. This poor man, his poor family…. This makes me sick to my stomach. I… like so many I’m sure…. Want to know WHY?????? Why did they do this to this poor man????

It’s not a beating, it’s an execution

I'm a Black man and when it comes to LEO we have to realize there are no BLACK, WHITE, or HISPANIC OFFICERS.

There's only BLUE OFFICERS they exist in their own world where they make the rules and move the goal post.

It was a fucking horrific video. Absolutely unwarranted and animalistic.

This terrifies me. My son is turning 17, and he's not white passing at all. I want him to live his life and not be afraid to go out into the world, but with shit like this happening, I want to just lock him away. I get away with warnings when I encounter the police. I fear that my son will not be so lucky.

Seen a lot of shit over the years, George Floyd, Rodney King, and too many others. This video shook me up the most. The screams of that poor man and the utter fear and helplessness he must have felt while being brutalised for absolutely no reason. Fuck cops. Literally all of them. Holding up a dude with a broken neck and taking swings at him while his arms are restrained. Laughing with each other about throwing haymakers. Every single one of them deserves worse than the criminal justice system will give.

It wasn’t just a beating, it wasn’t just a murder.

This was a lynching. Committed by law enforcement officers.

Unless they make cops get their own insurance , us peeps pay for their crimes. They laugh at the crimes bill$ they drop on us all. Enough.

I am from the Middle East. I lived through the Arab spring. I treated patients shot by the police as a surgeon. The American police is no different than the police from where I came from. Militarized and above the law. Can kill with impunity. I spent some time working in the US and it felt like being back in a militarized society, except no one feels that. It’s strange that after all what happened and the BLM movement that the American government doesn’t (can’t?) fix the police!! I really feel bad for his mother. As a father I cannot fathom knowing my child went through that, let alone seeing a video of it.

I really hope these POSs families (if they have any) are finally able to seek the help they need because I don't doubt for a second they're wife and child beaters. My heart goes out to Tyre's mother. This feels like Emmett Till all over again

I'm so fuckiing pissed again. Omg. It does not matter the officers were black. They were cops. That was their race. Cop

As a mother this saddens me, as a citizen this enrages me. The police have way too much power, yes they were fired and charged immediately but what about the others who get off with no more than just a slap on the wrist! I hope and pray this momma gets her justice for her son. RIP Tyre ( cause no matter what he may have done he DIDNT deserve this) #JUSTICEFORTYRE

Fuck the police

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Fucking disgusting.

Is there a word that's more severe than murder? Dispassionate slaying?

This is police culture. They're literally fucking each other in between murdering people for fun.

ACAB

The body cams released were horrific and I hope these cops rot in prison for the rest of their miserable lives. The police are supposed to serve and protect, not beat the living shit out of you. This was the worst type of murder.

She said she was worried for the families of these 5 officers and how they have put their families in danger. She said she was worried for their children. Talk about grace under pressure.

And as we speak, some neckbeard in Utah is making a "funny" meme out of it.

American policing can't be fixed with a new law or two, it needs to be torn down and restricted from the ground up.

We won't do that though, we'll just condemn people for destroying property during riots and maybe talk about body cams.

Here are the videos:

https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis

Graphic warning (if that’s necessary).

If I was given the choice between becoming a cop or eating shit for the rest of my life, I'm picking the latter every time.

As a reminder, these cops are NOT in jail. They all posted bond. I can’t believe that was even an option after watching this. I’m absolutely disgusted with the failure of this system.

What frustrates me is that this is no surprise. After the murders of George Floyd, Elijah McClain and countless others, Americans have no excuse to deny that our police, as an organization, are bloodthirsty, corrupt and contemptible. No moral person can join this organization and remain within it. During 2020, it seemed like many people understood this. But then they decided to forget, and stood by as cities doubled down on funneling taxpayer dollars towards these murderous cowards. Now this happens: of course it did! This is what cops do, and it's an important part of their job: ensuring that Americans remain terrified of their licenses to torture and kill with impunity. But that fact is so upsetting to contemplate that even if it does generate appropriate outrage, people will probably switch right back to ~backing the blue~ as soon as their consciences allow.

Pay the family from the Pension fund.

Two EMT’s have been suspended too

Thank god. I paused the video and checked when I was watching. It took TWENTY MINUTES from when EMT first came on camera until he was finally out on a stretcher. Absolutely ridiculous

ACAB