#police murders

[reasoningdaily]

CNN: Memphis releases video showing police stop that led to Tyre Nichols' death

In one of the bodycam videos, a Memphis police officer is heard yelling at Nichols: "I'm going to baton the fuck out of you. Give me your fucking hands."

Nichols screams for his mom as the video shows an officer arriving at a second location, in a residential neighborhood.

Officers tell Nichols to "give them his hand," as a struggle ensues on the ground. An officer asks Nichols, "Do you want to get sprayed again?"

Two officers hit and kick Nichols as he is on the ground.

Nichols screams: "Mooooom!"

An officer then appears to pepper spray Nichols.

#tyre nichols #Memphis Black Lives Matter #Black Lives Matter #police murders

[ausetkmt]

Tyre Nichols' Mom Slams Cops for Not Looking at Her in the Face as They Pleaded Not Guilty

All five of the former Memphis officers charged with murdering Tyre Nichols—a 29-year-old Black man whose beating last month was captured on cameras and sent the nation into fury—pleaded not guilty to the charges against them in their first court hearing on Friday morning.

The parents of Tyre Nichols take the stage with their attorney Ben Crump at a news conference in January.

Alyssa Pointer/Reuters

Following the officers’ arraignment, RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, said she still feels “numb” about her son’s death and that she’s living a “nightmare.”

She called out the officers for apparently refusing to look her in the face during the court proceeding—the first time she’s faced her son’s accused killers in person.

“I need each and every one of those officers to look me in the face,” Wells said at the press conference. “They haven’t done that, they haven’t had the courage to look me in the face after what they did to my son. They’re going to see me at every court date until we get justice for my son.”

After the suspects made their not-guilty pleas, Judge James Jones asked all parties involved in the case to be patient.

“We understand that there may be some high emotions in this case, but we ask that you continue to be patient with us,” Jones said. “Everyone involved wants this case to be concluded as quickly as possible. But it’s important for you all to understand that the state of Tennessee as well as each one of these defendants have an absolute right to a fair trial.”

Jones said he “will not allow any behavior” that might “jeopardize” the legitimacy of the trial for the five officers.

The second-degree murder charge the group faces carries a sentence of 15 to 60 years in prison.

Nichols died on Jan. 10, three days after he was pulled over for allegedly driving recklessly—an encounter that Nichols fled from after it quickly turned violent, footage released by the police department shows.

After fleeing on foot, a group of officers from the city’s since-disbanded SCORPION unit tracked Nichols down and began mercilessly beating him, video shows. Authorities say it was this assault that killed Nichols.

Footage from both security cameras and officers’ body cameras show that Nichols never attempted to fight back as he was beaten.

The officers involved have been free on bond since their arrest last month.

Bean, Martin III, Haley, Smith, and Mills Jr. were promptly fired and charged after the beating. A sixth officer, Preston Hemphill, was later fired but not criminally charged for his handling of Nichols’ initial traffic stop. Bodycam footage captured him using a taser on Nichols and later declaring, “I hope they stomp his ass.”

An attorney for the Nichols family, Ben Crump, said Friday that all rumors surrounding a personal feud between Nichols and one of the officers aren’t true.

“All these rumors that are circulating are bogus and untrue,” Crump said.

Nichols’ father, Rodney Wells, said Friday is a “glorious day” because it’s the first step in obtaining justice for his son. Crump said he hopes the trial will be completed within the year, just as George Floyd’s killer was promptly convicted in 2020.

“We have video,” Crump said. “When people in our community do something on video it doesn't take a lot of time to prosecute them.”

#Tyre Nichols #Tyre Nichols' Mom Slams Cops for Not Looking at Her in the Face as They Pleaded Not Guilty #mpd #tenn #police murders #cops who kill citizens #memphis #the scorpion unit

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list of staff + more issues

#post nuked bc proshippers started insulting people who rbed this and implied partyjockers attempted to Kill staff? it was getting old so #archive links still under the cut if you want and you can rb this from others if you want the og #hint: if you dislike this post or want to debunk parts of it the way to go about it isn't to call people who've rbed it 'disgusting little #fuck ups' that are 'spreading anti shipper lies' #note: this post is and was Not about ship discourse jesus fucking christ proshippers get a grip #also ace discoursers are here too? this isn't about you either? #edit 2: if you send me an anon regarding this post about how im policing discussion or 'don't really want it' #but then stop replying when i answer your ask #maybe that's. not helping discussion? #i nuked this post as people started making up false accusations to smear people staff sniped. aka accusing someone of IRL ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

[bossymarmalade]

Installation view of Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at the Chicago Cultural Center

The exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opens with the installation “Homegoing.” The work is a suspended image depicting a screenshot from Ma’Khia Bryant’s personal TikTok. In the photo she’s laying her edges, her jet-black hair shining, her baby face clean and free of makeup. Below the printed photo is a collection of candles, stuffed animals, and a bouquet. On April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia was killed by an Ohio police officer in what was later determined a justifiable homicide. She was 16 years old. 

In the gallery titled Rest and Recess: The Courtyard, the exhibition transports the viewer to the Caribbean where Black girls play together unburdened and hopeful. A tree, sculpted by Robert Narciso and made from branches from Rekia Boyd’s family home, sits in the center of the room casting a protective shadow over everything. From its branches hang yellow paper hearts scribed with the hopes and dreams of little Black girls. The sound of their joyful cacophony activates the space.

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#chromatic voice #ma'khia bryant #rekia boyd #a long walk home #scheherazade tillet #robert narciso #we all make art #usermarmalade #police brutality #missing and murdered black women #say her name #black lives matter

[vague-humanoid]

MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. -- The body of a Tennessee deputy was found Thursday after he went missing following his first-ever arrest. His patrol vehicle and the body of the woman he arrested were also recovered from a river, authorities said.

Multiple agencies will investigate how the vehicle ended up in the water. However, Johnson noted that the deputy, a native of New York, appeared to be texting and radioing while driving in a poorly lit area he was unfamiliar with.

"We're operating under the theory that it was an accident -- he missed his turn, he wasn't familiar and he was doing other things that may have caused him to go into the water," Johnson said at the Thursday afternoon press briefing.

@chrisdornerfanclub @el-shab-hussein

#state violence #police murder #dying because I'm in the power of jackass and was powerless ro affect his reckless actions sounds like a nightmare

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this

#she hangs out at active crime scenes in a way that should be a red flag but 'evades' the police simply by merit of being in 7th grade #the ONE 'detective'/nemesis who is convinced she had something to do with The Murders #is the classmate who sorta tried to bully her at the beginning of the school year but then the vibes got all intense and sapphic #so she backed off and has been Ignoring the Nerd she does Not have a special interest in #except then The Murders begin and she has so many Suspicions BUT #everytime she confronts the antihero the interaction ends in accidental intimacy followed by furious blushing #the nemesis's father is an (unsympathetic) cop character who repeatedly ignores his daughter's concerns #'dad i think the weird girl in my math class is a serial killer' 'that's not an excuse for failing algebra. go do your homework'

[fosliie]

You know what they say, once you got some fav characters, gotta blast ‘em with the gender ray B). Anyways here’s some fem versions of Sam and Max! Just as in love and murdering even more so if that’s even possible

#myart #freelance husbands #sam and max #sam and max freelance police #freelance wives #is freelance wives a thing?? #would be so girl boss if it was #also wanted an excuse to doodle some goofy undercover mission of some sort with fancy outfits and lots of attempted murder :]

[angelnumber27]

The Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund

Tyre Nichols was loved by his community and was known to be gentle, kind, and joyful. He loved skating and was originally from the Bay Area in California. He was known as someone “you know when he comes through the door he wants to give you a hug” and that “he wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

“He had never been in trouble with the law, not even a parking ticket. He was an honest man, a wonderful son, and kind to everyone. He was quirky and true to himself, and his loss will be felt nationally.”

Btw, the link includes a photo of graphic injuries. View with discretion.

#important #heartbroken over this :( #tyre nichols #gofundme #acab #black lives matter #black lives have always mattered #rip tyre Nichols #police brutality tw #police brutality #police murder tw #police murder #tw antiblackness #tw graphic injuries #tw police brutality #tw police murder #tw police violence #police violence tw #blm #upload #rest easy baby :( #heartbreaking. #please boost this. #please boost this #signal boost #tw graphic violence

[chrollohearttags]

meg baby, I promise we’ll all look the other way if you decide to strangle that chimera ant built bitch. I promise we won’t say nothing.

#nicki got to be one of the nastiest bitches I’ve ever seen in my life #you ain’t had a fucking hit in 10 yrs good enough to act the way you do #it’s crazy it took her being so vile to meg for ppl to get it #it’s always ‘protect blk women’ w/her until it’s somebody she don’t like lmao #and her only beef with her is that she collabed with cardi #the only one who stuck by her side mind you so ofc she #she’s been terrible and I remember back in 2017 when ppl jumped me for ‘defending a Latina woman’ over her #the same bitch that co opted a hashtag meant for missing and murdered blk women for her own bullshit #while cardi was using her platform to speak up for breonna Taylor and police brutality? oh okay #she’s a nasty witch and her karma will come #rap beef aside #‘how you got 3 Grammys and can’t stay on beat?’ #how are you the supposed queen and been rapping since Jesus was in Jerusalem but have zero? #bringing up her dead mother..you deserve to rot #cherry chats 🍒 #I’m so happy cardi no longer feeds into her bullshit and lets her stupid ass talk to the wall #all the new girls are outshining her and I’m so glad they don’t have to grovel to her #the fact that these girls just came out and are her competition says more abt nicki than it does Meg cardi latto or anybody else #her peers should be missy kim queen latifah etc #and yet she’s linking up with 23 year olds and beefing with girls 20 years her junior #guess that predator spirit run in the family huh

[kthulhu42]

So tell me more about how women "manipulate the police and courts" and how "women lie about being abused and get believed and men get put in prison for 20 years over false accusations"

He set her on fire after she begged several police stations for help and nobody took her fears seriously

(Despite him having a history of violence, a history of mental health issues, and a court order telling him to stay away from her and her children, which he ignored, which are all warning signs that SHOULD have been listened to)

Tell me more about how totally innocent men get punished by this "unfair system"

#radblr #radical feminism #Femicide #Violence against women #Men ignore court orders with impunity and women are murdered #The police should be held accountable

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 28, 2023 - A police station is molotoved in France after police executed 17-year old Naël M. during a traffic stop. [video]

#justicepournael #france #acab #direct action #molotov #police station #murder #police brutality #black bloc #fire #flames #riot #police #gif #2023

[reasoningdaily]

Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: How can we get justice for Tyre Nichols and other victims of police brutality?

On Jan. 7, Memphis police officers stopped 29-year-old Tyre Nichols for a traffic violation and then beat him so viciously that they broke his neck and sent him into cardiac arrest.

Nichols died three days later. Memphis, Tenn., Police Chief Cerelyn Davis has called the beating “heinous, reckless, and inhumane” and fired the five officers involved. On Thursday, the district attorney announced that the officers had been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Late Friday, the city released video footage of the horrific beating.

Less than three years after George Floyd was murdered, there are hauntingly familiar calls for justice for Tyre Nichols. We have been here far too many times before.

Reports of people beaten and killed by police have periodically put the failures of our criminal justice system on the front pages of newspapers. In response, legislative committees have held hearings. Reports have been issued, documenting racist policing, unlawful arrests and excessive force. Reforms have been put into place. Then, invariably, the country’s attention has been drawn elsewhere and the conversation has gone quiet.

When the world watched Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murder Floyd, the conversation began anew. In some ways, it felt different this time around. Police chiefs around the country immediately and unequivocally condemned Floyd’s killing. Protests were larger and more racially diverse than ever before. Important reforms got traction at the federal, state and local levels.

But then the nation’s sense of urgency began to slip: Protests died down; proposed reforms were voted down; Black Lives Matter murals painted in bright colors on city streets began to fade. Despite unprecedented attention paid to police misconduct and violence in 2020, police killed more people in 2022 than they had in any year since experts began tracking these killings. Now we are poised for yet another painful reckoning.

In the weeks after Floyd was murdered, calls for reform focused on ending a legal protection for police called “qualified immunity.” Officers are entitled to qualified immunity — which shields them from liability in civil cases — even if they have violated the Constitution, so long as they have not violated “clearly established law.”

The Supreme Court has defined clearly established law in such a narrow way that officers have been granted qualified immunity even when they have stolen more than $225,000 during a search, used a police dog to assault a man who had surrendered and sat on a man’s neck and back until he died. Although some large cities and counties pay tens of millions each year to resolve misconduct lawsuits against their officers, these and many other horrific cases have been dismissed on qualified immunity grounds.

After Floyd’s murder, Congress and many states took up legislation that would in effect end qualified immunity. But union officials and other defenders of the status quo argued passionately against them, claiming that police officers and local governments would be bankrupted for reasonable mistakes without qualified immunity.

There is no evidence to support such claims. Officers wouldn’t be bankrupted without qualified immunity; local governments almost always pick up the tab when their officers are sued and these payouts amount to less than 1% of most governments’ budgets. And the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the 4th Amendment further shields officers from liability when they make reasonable mistakes. But, in many places, the fears stoked by opponents of these reform bills have proved more powerful than facts on the ground.

Currently, several states, including New York, Washington and New Hampshire, have reintroduced police reform bills. I testified in favor of Washington’s bill earlier this week and listened as opponents of the bill raised the very same groundless concerns that have led to other bills’ defeat.

The killing of Tyre Nichols should serve as a reminder of what is at stake in the continuing debate about police violence and reform. It’s not the phantom menace of more lawsuits against the police, but how our society allows these horrible injustices to happen again and again and what we owe to victims of government misconduct and abuse.

Ending qualified immunity won’t end all the problems in policing — far from it. There are many other legal protections shielding law enforcement officers from justice in the courts and from discipline and termination by their departments.

We also need to ask broader questions about what we empower police to do, and how to restore trust between law enforcement and communities they serve. But for now, eliminating qualified immunity is an important first step, given the egregious misconduct it protects.

I’d hoped that we wouldn’t have to see another killing on a viral video to restart the national conversation about police reform. Yet here we are. This time, we must focus on facts, not fear-mongering.

Myths about the dangers of making it too easy to sue police have made a mess of our system. We need a shared understanding of why officers must be held accountable for their actions, and a commitment to end senseless legal protections that embolden police and leave victims without a meaningful remedy.

#tyre nichols #memphis #police murders #police violence against citizens #end qualified immunity

[gothhabiba]

analyses that seek to talk about the relationship between “femininity,” “masculinity,” and social punishment and reward shoot themselves in the foot when they refuse to define what “femininity” or “masculinity” are and instead just consider them to be two distinct, intangible, immutable qualities of objects or people themselves, such that people just kind of are “feminine” or “masculine”—rather than thinking of different kinds of femininities and masculinities as shifting and multivalent categories that are imposed on people, scripts that people manipulate, or ways in which things are read. people who want to analyse femininity and masculinity for their social disciplinary functions are often unable to really get there because they don’t make this distinction. perhaps they assume that we all know what “femininity” or “masculinity” are and so how these ideas are actually created and applied doesn’t need to be theorised?

this gets especially dicey when you start trying to talk about racialised discourses surrounding gender, and leads you to claims such as “Black men are socially punished for their masculinity”—for the “masculinity” that they just sort of ‘have’—rather than the more productive analysis that the concept of “Black masculinity” is a white invention and sexual fantasy imposed on Black men that serves a specific social-political function re: the policing of Black men and racial corralling, division, and denial of public space justified by viewing Black men as a sexual threat; police murder as an arm of capitalist biopower/ control of populations justified by claiming Black men are a physical threat; the government’s role in systematically destabilising the engine of social reproduction that is the nuclear family in Black communities; &c. &c.. To describe this spectacle of an invented threat as “[Black men’s] masculinity” as though it describes anything actually ‘possessed by’ Black men is, I think, weak analysis to say the very least

#masculinity #femininity #gender #racism #antiblackness #antiblack murder / #police violence

[whaliiwatching]

gay people judging you

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #hobie wanted to help solve a murder #.. he wanted to be the girl friday #frankly its a miracle peter can concentrate #he’d be tripping all over himself over hobie if he weren’t sitting down lol #but they’re fucking with a rich asshole client probably so he’s not too distracted #case fic where they’re making moony eyes at each other over the corpse and clues <333 #i choose to believe hobie likes detective fiction specifically sherlock ‘the police are idiots’ holmes #that’s partially projection tho :’) #at least i can admit it

[politijohn]

Source

#acab #police #police violence #murder #news #current events #politics #us politics #the left

[sulcrafatejackets]

Can you guys write a letter to Allah I don’t know the queen of England or something like that on my behalf I don’t know if it would even reach her in time maybe email her instead or a queen or empress of somewhere maybe

I didn’t say Ola but no Allah

Bluebird it has definitely come to this

How does the empress or queen get excellent medical care? How does she keep her doctors under her thumb?

But I need the stuff to be addressed now I don’t need these bastards to basically prove medicine wrong and say that I have nothing because I stand in their way

Don’t say John no I said John fucking Rigney I said John fucking goddamn Rigney no jokes about Jessica no jokes about Sarah and no jokes about that other woman John you don’t need to be telling people that their belief in God or a higher power makes them intellectually disabled you’re the disabled bastard

David oh my gosh have you ever just like seen a situation where you were like OK this is retarded but I guess I’ll go with it… You know what is kind of funny about that I don’t wanna talk about it David can you guys get another speech so that I don’t have to hear the stuff that you guys talk about that makes no sense to your personal lives thanks

Christian targeting thank you bluebird that’s the problem isn’t it it reminds me of being in like your card out or something I said Jakarta and anyways even if you have that card you didn’t before and besides what are you gonna do kill a bunch of innocent children like you do here?

If you doctors here think that you’re bad, just imagine the fuck holes that were trying to fight across the ocean.

I cannot imagine at this point with these guys would be trying to prove except that they want to be petty and they will never be Much of anything as what I was going to add but you guys felt that I had already said enough.

Apparently these doctors are still willing to try to get your affection and attention by bullying a person they should be treating… It’s not very fresh because what happens when he turns on you and you thought it was funny before but I don’t think it was very funny when Ricky Brooks died of leukemia

Everything has to have checks and balances whether you were a queen or a king whether you are to become one… Everything has to have checks and balances but people don’t do that kind of stuff here in America we learned about this in fifth or sixth grade geography class I think it was called social studies

#Christian targeting #Christian target in #It’s a government takeover #Jakarta Indonesia #India #Andra Pradesh #Bluebird #Police murders