The death of Tyre Nichols
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson talks to history professor Brenda Stevenson about the systematic problems with police and the wider justice system in America, and our US correspondent James Matthews about another example of brutality towards a black man.
Warning: Sound from the police bodycam footage is used during the first eight minutes of the podcast. There's discussion of violence throughout.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:22.6 | Welcome to the Sky News Daily. I'm Neil Patterson and once again we find ourselves discussing how an innocent black man has lost his life at the hands of police in America. |
| 1:28.3 | Tyree Nichols was stopped by officers in Memphis. In video footage made public just days before this episode was recorded, |
| 1:32.3 | you can see the brutal, unrelenting beating they inflict on him as he lies helpless. |
| 1:39.3 | Three days later, Tyree died from the injuries inflicted. |
| 1:43.3 | Those five officers now face murder charges, |
| 1:46.9 | and they themselves are African-American. Later, we'll be speaking to one black American academic |
| 1:52.7 | who's studied the relationship between the police and the black community. |
| 1:56.5 | It was a lynch mob. I can, I will, I'll use that term, I'll go there with it. It was, as far as I'm |
| 2:02.9 | concerned, as bad as any lynching. |
| 2:07.8 | Well, let's start with James Matthews, Sky's US correspondent who has been in Memphis. James, |
| 2:13.8 | who was Tyree Nichols? |
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