Opinion: The police who killed Tyre Nichols
were Black. But they might still have
been driven by racism
CNN,
by
Van Jones
Original Article
Posted By: cThree,
1/28/2023 8:01:35 AM
Three decades ago, when four White Los Angeles police officers were videotaped beating Rodney King, the public outcry was heard around the world. In fact, I got arrested for the first time in my life during protests that followed. And I subsequently dedicated my career as a lawyer to helping to sue rogue cops, close prisons and reform the criminal justice system. (Snip) How do we explain Nichols’ horrific killing, allegedly at the hands of police who looked like him?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pinger 1/28/2023 8:04:32 AM (No. 1389161)
Why does Jones continue to show his ignorance?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/28/2023 8:11:04 AM (No. 1389167)
Sucks to be Van.
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Poor Van. He is having such a hard time with this one, since he cannot just cry "racism". This is what happens when you deal with all events restricted by the confines of a hate-filled ideology. Nichols was not the angel the left is trying to portray him as
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 1/28/2023 8:19:40 AM (No. 1389177)
That headline is the stupidest thing I've read in a while.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PCMM 1/28/2023 8:22:21 AM (No. 1389181)
I didn’t see Tyre tap-out, neither physically or verbally, before motivating the police to get deadly. All he had to do was comply, like the wypipo do.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/28/2023 8:35:35 AM (No. 1389191)
It's now official - - everyone is a racist!
No matter what you do - - no matter what you say - - no matter what you think - - no matter what you look like - - you're a racist. Gee - - it's comforting to know that!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 1/28/2023 8:36:39 AM (No. 1389192)
Chris Rock explains it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
janjan 1/28/2023 8:39:23 AM (No. 1389194)
Jones has decided that Black on Black crime must be nuanced racism. It is a theory that makes no sense on many levels but it seems convenient. That has nothing to do with what happened in Memphis. That was not racism, it was police brutality. Those cops will justifiably pay the price. And #5, sorry, non-compliance does not give the cops license to kill you unless you have a weapon. If Jones has bothered to watch the numerous videos of shoplifting and looting there is obviously a pattern going on related to race. The shop owner suspicion is justified. Face the truth. The White Antifa have rich Daddies.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cThree 1/28/2023 8:40:50 AM (No. 1389196)
Van Jones can't quit the "racism" cudgel. And he himself is a saint if he dares say so himself. But though most of this essay is sanctimonious drivel and sophistry, along the way he offers some interesting morsels:
But the narrative “White cop kills unarmed Black man” should never have been the sole lens through which we attempted to understand police abuse and misconduct.
[. . . .]
The key to reducing the incidence of police violence is stricter oversight and swifter punishment. . . Any system needs to put into place adequate checks and balances.
And this,
[I]t is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a White arrestee the kind of beat-down that Nichols allegedly received.
That last is key to understanding his fixation on Racism as the diagnosis. He's be better off looking to the danger of authority and the need to restrain and monitor it.
But Van Jones is lost in his own swamp, and since White Racism is the only rowboat he's ever used, it's no surprise he wriggles into it once again.
I'll accept this much of his essay: Stop with the White Cop is the Devil canard, and appreciate supervision—which by the way amounts to supporting the police, because if you "defund" departments to the bone, you are quite likely to short the supervisory end. These cops were in a "special unit," specially trained, and misguided faith in that training seems to have allowed them too much independence, and to administer "street justice" without adequate oversight.
Also recognize the rarity of this crime. Not only was a man beaten to death by a gang of armed men, but he was pretty much left on the pavement like a sack of trash, not quite dead, as everybody, bystanders, EMS personnel and the thugs themselves, displayed a shocking indifference that I believe is criminal in itself.
Memphis has a lot to answer for, police departments everywhere can look at this atrocity as instructive.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 1/28/2023 8:41:38 AM (No. 1389197)
Yup, never seen a black persons death that wasn't racist.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Speedy2 1/28/2023 8:44:45 AM (No. 1389200)
thinkin Tyre had a history
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So black-on-black violence is whitey’s fault?
Is there ANYTHING Whitey can’t do?! He’s amazing!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
msjena 1/28/2023 8:53:51 AM (No. 1389209)
Please. This was not a racist attack.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 1/28/2023 8:55:14 AM (No. 1389211)
maybe they were FEELING like they were white that day
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FJB 1/28/2023 9:01:50 AM (No. 1389213)
Stories like this one and so many others like it from the Deep State and its Enemedia make clear a revolution is required to save America. But by whom? And how?
Well, today, we're also hearing of how that Antifa outfit seems able to organize and implement riots nationwide in just a matter of hours! So why can't Freedom-Loving Americans do the same thing? Get together, overthrow Washington, and Take Back America. MAGA
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/28/2023 9:02:47 AM (No. 1389215)
I don't know for sure, but they didn't act like racists; they acted like stressed human being driven beyond their limits of patients by someone acting entitled, obnoxious and rude.
Woke steers of all stripes should take note : this COULD BE you...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Encore 1/28/2023 9:04:49 AM (No. 1389218)
“Learning that your child’s life was senselessly stolen from him is every Black parent’s nightmare.”
This is a black thing? I think Planned Parenthood would disagree.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/28/2023 9:12:56 AM (No. 1389225)
Young black men who disrespect authority, get high and drive and do not follow the directions of the police tend to make everybody angry. The cops were thugs but Tyre was a fool.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
gop_guys 1/28/2023 9:13:25 AM (No. 1389226)
We live in pretend land.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PostAway 1/28/2023 9:20:35 AM (No. 1389236)
Jones is doing nothing of value to help people of a community that he purports to care about. Blaming racism is silly. It simply doesn’t work to constantly blame a nebulous group of others for personal problems. Perhaps he might broaden his mind from the ideas he’s held since childhood and blame the destructive habits of the poor blacks themselves. That is, if he really cares.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/28/2023 9:24:12 AM (No. 1389242)
If a black person is killed in an auto accident, Henry Ford, a white man is responsible This is insane!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/28/2023 9:26:32 AM (No. 1389246)
Van is another useful idiot.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
PageTurner 1/28/2023 9:34:58 AM (No. 1389257)
They were probably street thugs who became affirmative action hires, so yeah, maybe that was where the racism came from.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cThree 1/28/2023 9:40:29 AM (No. 1389268)
So Van Jones writes, "it is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a White arrestee the kind of beat-down that Nichols allegedly received."
Hmm...
How long have we endured the previous nonsense—"[I]t is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a Black arrestee the kind of beat-down"—as an argument for hiring people who "look like" the people they are policing. Use "affirmative action," that is, lower your standards, as necessary.
It turns out that notion is completely specious in present day America, specious being a synonym for several words Lucianne doesn't allow.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
red1066 1/28/2023 9:49:47 AM (No. 1389275)
This kind of racism happens every night in every large city in this country. The difference is that these blacks wore police uniforms. The only thing that is the same from other incidents like this over the years, is that once again a young black man argued with police officers after being pulled over, refused to obey police directions, and fought with the police after doing so.
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I confess. It was me, Van. I paid those cops to do the white man's dirty work.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/28/2023 10:07:17 AM (No. 1389292)
There is no reasoning with people who refuse to see evidence in front of their eyes They're hopelessly corrupt, stupid or greedy. In this case it's all 3.
Showering them with preference in hiring, education and even proposed 'restitution', won't make it end.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/28/2023 10:24:22 AM (No. 1389312)
Fiendishly clever these Black White Supremacists !! sarcoff
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Msquared112 1/28/2023 10:26:22 AM (No. 1389316)
Only Van Jones would write such drivel.
I take it back: Nicole Hannah-Jones would. So would Ibrim Kendi. And Obama and his lovely spouse. So would lots of black racists who are mostly found in public schools and universities today teaching this evil drivel.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
jimincalif 1/28/2023 10:27:45 AM (No. 1389325)
Maybe racism was involved. Were any of the involved cops hired due to affirmative action? Maybe they were less qualified and/or less psychologically suited to police work, but got their jobs over other better qualified applicants because they were black? AA is just another form of racism.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2023 10:47:28 AM (No. 1389340)
So - a whole new way to use the tired, tattered, worn out, useless "racism" call.....now we have Black Racists against blacks. How is it even possible to make the claim that blacks are racist against blacks with a straight face? It is pure BS on the "face of it". Drop dead, liar.
Lots and lots of black racists against whites....I don't buy black racism against blacks....a non-starter.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/28/2023 10:53:01 AM (No. 1389349)
B...b...b...but blacks can't BE racist.
Yeh.
If black on black violence, like that of the cops involved here is racist, black on black crime certainly is.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
coldborezero 1/28/2023 11:08:22 AM (No. 1389365)
"If Your Only Tool is a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail."
Racism is all they have.
For my entire life (66 years) I have had it pounded into me how oppressed blacks are, how I am PERSONALLY responsible for everything bad that has ever happened to any black individual anywhere in the world at any time in history, how blacks are the most noble creatures to ever tread the earth and they have never, ever, EVER done anything wrong.
Well, not once in my life have I harmed a black person. I will never hurt anyone if I can avoid it. On the other hand, when it comes to American blacks, I will never again voluntarily lift a finger to help one. Enough!
I'm finished.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
glenw 1/28/2023 11:21:28 AM (No. 1389375)
The headline should read - Van Jones is Black, but he's still driven by racism.....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 1/28/2023 11:22:41 AM (No. 1389378)
I wondered how long it would take and who the race hustler would be for this "take" to get out there - "BLACK BROTHER COPS BRAINWASHED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICE POWER STRUCTURE".
CNN and Van Jones did nothing to disprove my expectations.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/28/2023 11:23:54 AM (No. 1389381)
I was struck by the inane headline, but then saw the author. Makes perfect sense, now.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 1/28/2023 11:40:31 AM (No. 1389389)
What is racism? Is it when you see someone who is ethnically different and you vilify denigrate them for their looks? Or is it when you see a ethnicity known to be plagued with bad actors and assume one of that ethnicity committing a crime to also be a bad actor? If the police are flashing their lights stop, obey, and hire an attorney. Worked for Col. Wests wife who was harassed by a black traffic cop.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/28/2023 12:00:39 PM (No. 1389399)
No wonder CNN continues to shed viewers. They have only about 450,000 prime time viewers. I can’t believe they still attract advertisers
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/28/2023 12:20:46 PM (No. 1389413)
It's simple: Black is white when a Marxist says so.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
paral04 1/28/2023 12:22:04 PM (No. 1389416)
Maybe the guy was a viscous thug. Were they supposed to let him do what he wanted becasue he was a "Brother"?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 1/28/2023 12:32:15 PM (No. 1389424)
Let me guess, "displaced aggression?" The blacks cops were victimized by whitey so they took it out on a black guy. Yea, that's it.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 1/28/2023 1:35:02 PM (No. 1389453)
I think they were using their typical black savagery.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/28/2023 2:25:36 PM (No. 1389479)
Memphis is a lost cause. It has been completely overtaken by crime, and now it looks like a criminal element is actually on the police force doing selective "enforcement."
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith - names which will remain infamous.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
edgar 1/28/2023 2:42:51 PM (No. 1389487)
Black on black crime = racism is what they're going to run with? Yoy.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
daisey 1/28/2023 4:17:02 PM (No. 1389513)
Has a tox screen been made public that says Tyre was on any drugs? If 5 people were beating on me, I would try to get away too. I also didn’t witness entitled, obnoxious and rude. I did hear a young man screaming for his Mom. Also, if you’re a cop and this is how you handle stress, you should find another job.
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Well I can think of a couple of things Van. One would be Tyre ran from the cops. That was stupid. The second and most interesting is there is information out there today that several of those cops may have been affiliated with a major gang in Memphis. Could be this was gang activity.
Besides, don't you remember when all the blacks were destroying communities and targeting black businesses? They used the excuse of 'skin folk, not kin folk' to get away with targeting their own kind. You really need to stop being so ignorant.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/28/2023 9:05:33 PM (No. 1389653)
The secret white racism of black police officers. "The Klan Made Me Do It!"
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
SALady 1/28/2023 11:03:59 PM (No. 1389712)
So I guess some un-named white supremist racist over-seer forced these poor black officers to commit this murder of an innocent former choirboy black man!!!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
mifla 1/29/2023 5:40:20 AM (No. 1389799)
FTA: "The DNC’s message that Black people are inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive".
Fixed it for ya.
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