Nichols' fatal beating by five police officers tells the story many residents know by heart: Any encounter can be deadly if you're Black.
MEMPHIS — In a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in constant fear of the police.
People are also reading… In police sweeps, unmarked cars roll into neighborhoods and armed plainclothes officers jump out, rushing traffic violators and issuing commands. The result is a community in fear, where people text, call and use social media to caution one another to stay inside or avoid the area when police operations are underway.
Chase Madkins was about a block from his mother's Evergreen neighborhood home just east of downtown Memphis dropping off his 12-year-old nephew in November when the blue lights of an unmarked police car flashed behind him. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Madkins, 34, consented but called an activist friend to the scene.
"They go into these poor Black communities and they do mass pullover operations, terrifying everybody in that community," Demster said. Some people might think the officers are looking for murderers or people accused of heinous crimes, or have stacks of warrants for violent criminals, he said, but"that is not the case."
What that left here is complicated, especially when it comes to policing and crime. In 2021, the year the SCORPION unit — a specialty squad that all five officers in the Nichols case were part of — was set up, homicides hit a record, breaking one set in 2020, the previous year. Homicides dropped in 2022 but high-profile cases kept crime in the news. Most of the victims those years were young Black men. The suspects were overwhelmingly Black.
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In Tyre Nichols' neighborhood, Black residents fear policeIn a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in constant fear of the police.
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In Tyre Nichols' neighborhood, Black residents fear policeIn a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in constant fear of the police.
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In Tyre Nichols' neighborhood, Black residents fear policeIn a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in constant fear of the police.
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