The incident has brought into focus America's entrenched police culture of aggression and dehumanisation of Black people. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The killing of Mr Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man in Memphis, Tennessee, at the hands of police has prompted outrage and condemnation from racial justice activists, police reform advocates and law enforcement officials, including the chief of the Memphis Police Department, a Black woman who lobbied for policing changes in the wake of Mr George Floyd’s murder.
Videos released by the city of Memphis on Friday evening, including police body camera footage and shots from a pole-mounted police camera, show Mr Nichols crying out for his mother while officers hold him down, kick him in the head and punch him. “Blackness doesn’t shield you from all of the forces that make police violence possible,” Prof Forman said. “What are the theories of policing and styles of policing, the training that police receive? All of those dynamics that propel violence and brutality are more powerful than the race of the officer.”
“Can’t people be bad people motivated by their lack of maturity, self-awareness and inability to discern? Does every incident involving police and black men have to revert back to being an issue in race?” Mr Barrington Martin II, a former Democratic congressional candidate in Georgia, wrote on Twitter.
Police reform advocates have long argued that departments should more accurately reflect the demographics of the communities they police as a way to improve policing and help build trust in those communities. In Memphis, 65 per cent of the population is Black, as is 58 per cent of the police force. Mr Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, a national law enforcement organisation, called the reported failure of other officers to intervene in the fatal beating of Nichols “sickening,” adding: “The event as described to us does not constitute legitimate police work or a traffic stop gone wrong. This is a criminal assault under the pretext of law.”
Still Ms Krinsky acknowledged that police reform has to go beyond diversity. “Because if we hire the right people, but then the culture of the organization, and how they’re trained, and the tone and values that are modeled aren’t the right ones – just having the right people alone isn’t going to be a solution to some of the concerns about police behaviour.”
Even the speed with which the five officers were charged has elicited complex reactions of both applause and concern that white officers have been treated differently under similar circumstances.
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US police release video that shows Memphis cops kicking, beating Tyre NicholsThe officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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