What Next - From Rodney King to Tyre Nichols
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The video of Tyre Nichols being fatally beaten by Memphis police officers was made public on Friday. How does this latest high-profile incident of police brutality echo the killing of George Floyd or the beating of Rodney King? And 30 years after the latter, what’s still standing in the way of police reform?
Guest: Joel Anderson, staff writer at Slate, host of Seasons 3 and 6 of Slow Burn.
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| 0:00.0 | Slates Joel Anderson feels like it's so common to hear about black people being killed |
| 0:11.0 | by the police. |
| 0:12.0 | He's not actually sure when he first heard the name Tyree Nichols. |
| 0:17.4 | Tyree was beaten by the cops in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7th. |
| 0:21.5 | He died three days later. |
| 0:23.5 | The five officers who attacked him got fired and then indicted last week. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm firing those officers with sort of the incident that made me look and say, huh. |
| 0:34.6 | Because it was remarkable. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:36.6 | They didn't usually happen like that. |
| 0:37.8 | Like sometimes it does, but often it doesn't. |
| 0:40.7 | And that was sort of remarkable. |
| 0:48.7 | Joel has covered a lot of deaths by police. |
| 0:51.6 | There's Michael Brown and Ferguson, Freddie Gray and Baltimore. |
| 0:56.0 | Joel hosted a whole season of the Slow Burn podcast about Rodney King and the riots that followed |
| 1:01.6 | his assault back in 1991, which is why I wanted to talk to Joel now. |
| 1:09.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:11.1 | Pastor Thomas and Bishop Thomas, Bishop Williamson for allowing us to be in your cathedral at this |
| 1:20.1 | moment here in Memphis. |
| 1:22.8 | About a week ago, Tyree's family got their first glimpse of the video of the brutality that |
| 1:28.3 | led to his death. |
| 1:30.2 | And afterwards, they had this press conference with their lawyer, Ben Crump, to describe |
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