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Re: Five Memphis police officers charged over death of Tyre Nichols
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Originally Posted by Mythica
No he never, the order was to face the floor owhich was ignored by turning around and telling them he hadn't done anything as can be seen on the body worn camera.
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From my previous post
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The Washington Post has reviewed the footage in detail. Here is a description of what each video shows.
In video clip one, Nichols is pulled from his car and pushed to the ground by a group of police officers.
“I didn’t do anything!” Nichols says as officers shout at him using expletives.
As Nichols is moved to the ground, a voice, presumably Nichols, can be heard saying: “You don’t do that, okay?” and “All right, I’m on the ground.”
Nichols appears calm and can be seen sitting on the ground, while officers shout commands at him: “Turn around! Right now! Get on the ground!”
“Okay, you guys are really doing a lot right now, stop,” Nichols says as multiple officers pin him to the ground and tell him to turn around and put his hands behind his back. “I’m just trying to go home!”
An officer warns Nichols, who is already on the ground, “Man, if you don’t lay down — ” to which Nichols responds “I am on the ground!”
The officer wearing the body camera appears to Taser Nichols, who is struggling to get away. After several seconds, Nichols gets up from the ground and sprints down the street.
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Perhaps he (mistakenly, as it turns out) thought he had more chance of not being beaten to death if he ran away? Maybe he felt (by the fact the Officers’ words weren’t matching their actions) that excessive force would be utilised by the Officers?
It doesn’t matter anyway - killing someone because they ran away isn’t appropriate; we shouldn’t blame the victim for what was done to him.
---------- Post added at 19:05 ---------- Previous post was at 19:04 ----------
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Originally Posted by Mythica
Nonsense. Reread the post were I specifically stated I don't condone what happened.
Or watch the body footage which did show him resisting.
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You don’t "condone what happened" but you do intimate that perhaps he was to blame (by running away).
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he might still be alive if he just complied in the first place of lay on the floor
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