Tonight on The Readout.

It's a thing that bothers me the most.

It's just so many children that it's being brutalized and killed by the police.

Hopefully we can help another kid and another family like us through something like this.

Yet again, black parents grieve a son's death from police brutality.

It's a story that dates back to the very origins of America, and it's a history that conservatives

are fighting very, very hard to eliminate from our schools.

Also tonight the unanswered questions in Tyree Nichols' death and the police chief responsible

for hyper-aggressive police units with names like Scorpion and Red Dog.

Plus, the possibility that a former FBI official accused of secretly working for a Russian oligarch

could have played a role in tipping the 2016 election to Donald Trump.

We begin tonight with the fallout over the tragic death of Tyree Nichols at the hands of

five Memphis police officers.

Now, if you have a heart, what happened to the 29-year-old father, skateboarder,

FedEx driver, and amateur photographer should outrage you.

It should shock and disgust you, as should the so-called brothers who chose to behave

like a little blue gang rather than as black men.

But it damn sure shouldn't surprise you.

What happened to Tyree Nichols was as American as Apple Pie.

From the start, the European colonies in the Americas were designed to produce two kinds

of people, subjects and citizens, and violence was at the center of it all.

Even once they left Europe in the early 17th century, the colonizers of this continent

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