Woke "racism" does a running faceplant.
Friday evening the Memphis police released several different videos showing the pursuit and beating of Tyre Nichols, who died from his injuries three days later:
Police officers can then be heard telling the victim to get on the ground. Nichols said over and over “Alright, alright, I’m on the ground” and “You don’t need to do that.”
The victim can be heard pleading with the officers to stop, in which the cops tell Nichols to turn around “before I break your s—-.”
Another officer says “I’ll knock your a— the f—- out.” Nichols responds with, “You guys are doing a lot right now.”
Nichols then breaks free and attempts to run after he was heard saying “I’m just trying to go home.”
An officer deployed his Taser as Nichols was trying to run.
The video was split into four separate videos taken from either bodycam footage or surveillance cameras on street poles.
Meanwhile, a CNN contributor offered up what many might consider a predictable spin on the already horrible and tragic situation:
End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) ~ How is this not satire?
End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) ~ I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s 100% real. Here’s the article:
http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/27/opinions/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-department-jones/index.html
Van Jones wrote that and the story appears on CNN’s website:
Van Jones (@VanJones6
~ When it comes to police violence, race matters— but not in the way you might think. #TyreNichols #Memphis #JusticeForTyre
Yeah, in a way YOU might not think, too, Van - because you are obviously a pathetic racist, yourself. You shouldn't throw rocks in your own glass house, doofus.
From Jones’ article at CNN Opinion:
One of the sad facts about anti-Black racism is that Black people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. Society’s message that Black people are inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown that these ideas can infiltrate Black minds as well as White. Self-hatred is a real thing.
That’s why a Black store owner might regard customers of his same race with suspicion, while treating his White patrons with deference. Black people can harbor anti-Black sentiments and can act on those feelings in harmful ways.
Black cops are often socialized in police departments that view certain neighborhoods as war zones. In those departments, few officers get disciplined for dishing out “street justice” in certain precincts — often populated by Black, brown or low-income people — where there is a tacit understanding that the “rulebook” simply doesn’t apply.
Well, there it is. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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