Tonight on The Readout.

In the city where the dream lay down and shed his blood,

you have the unamidigated gall to beat your brother,

chase him down and beat him some more.

This is a family that lost their son and their brother.

Through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people

who had been charged with keeping them safe.

With the brother of George Floyd and the mother of Breonna Taylor in attendance,

Tyree Nichols, yet another young black life snuffed out by the brutality of police,

is mourned in Memphis.

And later, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar joins me as Republicans continue their revenge tour,

plotting to deny her receipt on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

But we begin tonight on the first day of Black History Month,

while it's still legal, presumably even in Florida.

In Memphis, Tyree Nichols was eulogized today by Reverend Al Sharpton,

Vice President Kamala Harris, Ben Crump, and Tyree's family

in an emotional and powerful ceremony in the city that was once the site of the final speech

of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his assassination in April 1968.

Looking at the balcony where Martin Luther King shed his blood for city workers,

for black city workers, to be able to work in the police department,

to work in sanitation.

And the reason why Mr. Mrs. Wells would happen to Tyree is so personal to me,

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