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My Take — 07
Let’s talk about “the POLICE” and police work.
Well, I watched the Tyre Nichols tapes this evening. I watched the tapes and about 6 hours of commentary on a variety of channels.
I watched them at 7pm when they aired on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX. I flipped between the channels because I was very curious about how each would present the material. I half expected FOX not to show it at all, I was a little surprised that they did.
Until I listened to their messaging around it. But, lets come back to that.
Lets talk about what we saw.
Here’s the sequence of events as documented from four different police videos that recorded events from 8:23 p.m. to 9:03 p.m.
8:24 p.m.
First sight of Nichols’ car, already stopped at an intersection where two officers are ordering Nichols to exit his vehicle. One of the officers opens the passenger door and pulls Nichols out.
“Damn, I didn’t do anything,” Nichols says.
The officers push Nichols to the ground while yelling at him to comply.
“Spray him,” one officer says.
8:25 p.m.
Officers order him to the ground, threatening to tase, spray and beat him as they struggle with him…
