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Tyree Nichols was killed in the beginning of January, January 7th.

And obviously there was traction with a news story, but there was a way in which

I think like a secondary or meta news story started to evolve when the police department and the

city of Memphis said that they would release this footage. Not only the announcement of that

footage being released, but the narrativeizing

around that footage being so bad that it could possibly spark another round of uprising

or being so bad that people should be encouraged not to watch it, that becomes a secondary news

story. That's my colleague Doreen St. Felix.

I'm Tyler Foggett, and this is the political scene.

She's been thinking a lot about police brutality videos as cultural objects and the police as a storytelling apparatus.

For the past few days, we've both been thinking about the murder of Tyree Nichols

and how the Memphis Police Department's videos have shaped the public narrative

and distracted us from the real conversation we should be having.

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