Bearing Witness To Police Brutality
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4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Memphis authorities released video footage of the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols, who was pulled over during a traffic stop on Jan. 7 and died three days later. The release of the videos triggered nationwide protests over the weekend, and led to Memphis police disbanding the so-called SCORPION crime unit, whose officers are accused of murdering Nichols.
And in headlines: Utah became the first state this year to pass a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel amid a surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin spoke out publicly for the first time since his on-field collapse.
Show Notes:
- The Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis: "Fired Officers Worked In MPD’s ‘SCORPION’ Unit" – https://tinyurl.com/ye23hmrp
- Capital B: “The Tyre Nichols Video Is Coming Out. You Don’t Have to Watch.” – https://capitalbnews.org/tyre-nichols-memphis-video/
- New York Times: “The Responsibility of Watching” – https://tinyurl.com/3cbp2cak
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 30th, I'm Trayville Anderson. |
| 0:09.3 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What A Day. |
| 0:12.6 | On today's show, violence continues in Israel and the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:16.8 | Plus, Demar Hamlin spoke publicly for the first time since he collapsed during a Monday |
| 0:20.5 | Night Football game. |
| 0:21.6 | But first, an update on the story out of Memphis, where five officers have been charged with |
| 0:26.5 | second-degree murder, assault, and kidnapping in the death of Tyree Nichols. |
| 0:31.3 | Picking up where we left the story on Friday, the Memphis Police Department has released |
| 0:35.3 | video footage of the traffic stop beating and other events that led to Tyree's death. |
| 0:40.5 | They did that Friday night, and throughout the weekend, there have been protests nationwide |
| 0:44.7 | in Memphis, of course, but also in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington, |
| 0:50.0 | DC, Seattle, and Detroit, among others. |
| 0:53.6 | Now we won't be detailing the events of the video footage, both the videos themselves, |
| 0:57.9 | and various descriptions of the violence Tyree endured is out there, if that's what |
| 1:02.2 | you're looking for. |
| 1:03.2 | And we're going to chat in a couple minutes about the choice to watch or not watch the video, |
| 1:08.5 | but before we do that, I want to emphasize that most of the demonstrations that happened |
| 1:12.5 | over the weekend were peaceful ones, even though to me, many of the calls for peace in advance |
| 1:17.8 | of the video footage's release were absurd and not a logical request considering the |
| 1:25.2 | severity of the violence that they all mentioned. |
| 1:28.9 | This came from the Memphis Police Chief, as well as President Biden. |
| 1:33.0 | They kind of made it seem like we couldn't imagine the severity of what was caught on tape |
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