Ep. 748 - Memphis has modeled precisely how police brutality must be addressed
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With a brand new police chief and a brand new District Attorney, local voters and organizers in Memphis need a lot of credit for how all of this went down.
What hundreds of police departments and DA's offices have said for generations that simply could not be done, or would take years, Memphis did in days.
And it has truly created a new model not just for the speed of it all, but the true compassion and humanity shown by the police chief and DA.
Let me unpack and explain it.
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Shaun
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| 0:20.5 | As you probably saw, the officers in Memphis, Tennessee, the five officers, |
| 0:25.6 | that beat a young brother named Tyre Nichols to death, |
| 0:30.4 | have all been charged with second degree murder, |
| 0:33.7 | aggravated assault and a long list of other felonies. |
| 0:37.6 | They were all charged and arrested yesterday that came after they were fired by the Memphis Police |
| 0:43.4 | Chief, whose words I plead here on the podcast yesterday. I want to tell you what I think is |
| 0:48.9 | going to happen next. |
| 0:50.2 | The video of the murder of Tyre Nichols is supposed to come out later this evening. |
| 0:57.3 | And I asked the family if that was something that they wanted us to share. |
| 1:04.1 | And they said yes. |
| 1:05.6 | Now I'll tell you how I feel about that. |
| 1:07.6 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:08.8 | Let's talk. |
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