New revelations continue to come out in the investigation into the beating and
murder of Tyre Nichols.
This is just such a disgusting detail, but it really does put you into the frame of
mind of the police officers who participated in this.
A Memphis officer texted a photo of Tyre Nichols after the beating,
according to new documents.
The cop admitted to sending that photograph to at least five different
people, including two fellow cops, a civilian employee of the department and
a female acquaintance.
A sixth person also received the photo, according to records.
Maybe there's a perfectly legitimate explanation for why that sixth person
hasn't even been identified to the extent that the others are.
I find it to be weird.
If they're even pointing out that one is just an acquaintance,
why is the sixth person totally shrouded?
We have no idea who that person is.
Again, maybe there's a legitimate reason for it.
I don't know what that would be.
But sending these photos is distressing for a couple of different reasons,
some official, some not.
So officially,
it's a violation about policies that are intended to keep information confidential.
You can't actually do this, but police officials also say it
was part of a pattern of mocking, abusive and blatantly unprofessional behavior by
the officers that also included shouting profanities at Mr.
Nichols, laughing after the beating and bragging about their involvement.
Well look, if details like this help get people to understand what their frame
of mind was, then good, but we don't require it.
We know exactly what their frame of mind was.
We know why they did what they did.
We know what they were experiencing as they didn't, and
we know why they didn't care afterwards to try to save his life.
Sending photos to me Jayar seems entirely consistent with the frame of mind,
the psychology that we knew was involved here.
>> That's part of the cruelty, right?
People like their trophies, people wanna show other folks what is they did,
we saw with the January sixth insurrectionists run up in the capital.
They took pictures, they posted about themselves, admitted on
camera what they were going to do, what they were doing as they were doing it, and
afterwards what they had just done.
That's just the nature of these types of folks.
Part of the thing is the clout chasing, and then look what I just did,
aren't I a badass?
All this stuff for some reason for these types of disgusting human beings.
It appeals to them to wanna show other who they feel are disgusting human beings,
what they just did and want some congratulations and some handshakes and
pats on the back for being garbage people.
Fine, none of this is new, but this is another reason why people may say,
these were five black officers, yes the sixth was fired as well a white guy, but
still these black officers it can't be based in racism.
Look at it, look what's going on.
It's not a racist system at all, except it does have some harkening back to
the way people did have picnics and gatherings around lynching black folks.
A similar thing here when this black person was beat to death and murdered, and
now we have to show off our memorabilia, our trophies.
People took trophies home from these disgusting,
murderous events that used to happen in this country,
that history that we just don't wanna teach because if we learn about it, you
might know that the same thing continues to happen just with a different look,
different kind of memorabilia and maybe even sometimes different skin colors.
But they still work for the same damn system.
It's a pretty simple concept, and I think people get it, but they definitely don't
wanna one of the folks that don't get it to tie those things together because
people might want to change course when it comes to those types of things.
One last thought, I was thinking about this yesterday, John.
You know what, people should be the most excited or
jazzed up about changing the way we do things in this country,
not the white folks that they say whenever they see anyone talk about our systems
of racism in the country that white folks is an anti-white approach.
White folks who are the descendants of many of these folks that did it,
should be the most jazzed about changing course and be like,
we don't do like what happened before, we're different than that, but
we can't acknowledge that you wanna stay with it.
If we were actually looking to be a better country, you would actually wanna change
the way things were rather than mask it and act like it just never happened.
It keeps happening.
Just because these are different kinds of police officers doesn't mean it's not
the same thing.
>> Yeah, 100%, yeah, and I'm glad that you brought that up.
If you hadn't, I was gonna reference the incident as well.
One wonders how far you would have to travel from the place that Tyre Nichols
was beaten to death to get to the closest place that a lynching was conducted.
How far do you think in America would you have had to travel?
I bet not that far.
And 100%, they would cut pieces of the bodies off and
then take them home to display.
They would take pictures with the corpses.
This was totally normal, totally they didn't think a thing of it, and
it's because of the effect of a mob and what it makes you believe is acceptable.
Well, all the people around me seem fine with this.
So I guess it is fine.
And so that's what we experienced on a smaller scale with the killing
of Tyre Nichols.
By the way, in addition to taking photos, they were so
happy with themselves that they've beaten someone that would eventually die.
All five also failed to capture the entire encounter on their body-worn cameras.
Three of the five fully removed their body-worn cameras during
the still-active scene.
Automatic firing would be my mind.
I mean in this case they already have been and are being charged,
but in similar sorts of things, automatic firing.
We know everything about what that means when you don't wanna be captured on video.
By the way, they're also looking into seven more officers who are connected in
some way to the killing of Tyre Nichols.
We don't know who they are, what they might have done with their roles
were in the stop, but they appear to have been involved in some case.
So this situation could widen even further.
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