Today in cops gone feral

Group showed footage of fatal Breonna Taylor raid at restaurant event, diners say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/21/breonna-taylor-gop-restaurant-mattingly-kentucky/

 

Five former Memphis police officers indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping in Tyre Nichols' death | CNN

 

If they are indicting the day before the footage goes public, you can safely assume it shows some truly awful shit.

 

They finally got the black guys for killing the black guy.

 

Shelby County schools cancel all after-school activities for today, including basketball.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/st...s-city-awaits-tyre-nichols-video/69846300007/

 

Benjamin Crump on TV saying what everyone was thinking in the past few days: Black cops beat and kill a black guy, and they're fired, arrested and charged within days. White cops kill a black suspect, with video evidence, and it takes months.

 

It's hard to argue the truth of that, but I would offer two other factors. First, everything I've heard about the body cam footage is that it is heinous and utterly brutal, from the first stop to the time they caught back up to him after he ran, so brutal that even the police union wants no part of defending these guys. Second, Memphis elected a reformer DA after the previous DA, who among other things put a black woman in jail for voting after she had been told by officials that she was cleared to vote. I suspect our Tennessee members can flesh that out further.

I'm not likely to watch that video, but even the Police Chief, a Black woman, says:

"In my 36 years, [...] I would have to say I don't think I've ever been more horrified and disgusted, sad [...] and, to some degree, confused," Davis told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos during an interview Friday on "Good Morning America."

When pressed on why the video left her "confused," the police chief told ABC News that it was "just in the level of aggression and response to what had occurred in this traffic stop and is still very unclear, you know, as to the real reason for the stop in the first place."

 

WTF is Memphis doing releasing the video on a Friday evening? Why not Tuesday at 9 am?

 

Honest inquiry:
What's the purpose of even protesting here?
The guys who did it were immediately fired and jailed. Memphis PD and the city seems to be taking the lead and getting in front of the this.
A peaceful protest will soon devolve into riots (whether by the locals or outside influences), which will lead to looting, which will lead to the message being turned from the cops killed a guy to "see we told you!"
Why not have a vigil or even better a fundraiser for the family? That would be far more productive.

 

Giving people a chance to get home from work or school and hunker down would be my guess.

 

So Memphis is basically a "Purge" sequel this weekend.