On January 7th, 2023, Tyre Nichols was stopped by Memphis police for reckless driving. He was taken out of the car and was not cooperating with the police. He was taken to the ground because he was resisting arrest, and when he got up he started running. When police caught up with him, they took him to the ground, as he was still resisting arrest, the police had to resort to violence to get this man to cooperate. Unfortunately, they beat him a little too hard, and he was announced dead 3-days later in the hospital. The police were fired from their jobs and are currently being charged with 'kidnapping' and murder.
Personally, I think that the media is overreacting in this situation. People are killed all the time, it is only when a police officer or a white cop kills a black person that they get angry. They need to realize that people are killed all the time, this is just a way that it happens. People 'protesting' is also awful, because most of the time they are saying 'defund the police'. I don't think that they realize how terrible it would be to live without police, the US would be nothing like it is today. In small towns, you can live with your doors unlocked and not be robbed or murdered. Why? Because the bad people don't want to get caught by the police. But, without police, nothing is stopping these bad people from doing horrid things.
Do you think that Tyre Nichols deserved to be beaten by the police?
Do you think that the media is overreacting?
What do you think the world would be like without the police?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/29/us/tyre-nichols-protests-sunday/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/28/1152319138/tyre-nichols-arrest-what-went-wrong-policing-experts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/timeline-tyre-nichols-deadly-encounter-memphis-police-rcna68018
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I agree with you when you say that the world would be crazy without the police. I really agree when you say that people die all the time and that only when police do it that people go crazy.
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