Many people are still reacting to the released video of Tyre Nichol’s arrest and murder by five Memphis police officers. One of those people is Benard Simelton, the President of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP.
All five police officers have been charged with the murder of Nichols, but many people are still calling for change within law enforcement.The body-camera footage was released by the Memphis Police department 26 days after the arrest. In the video, all five police officers are chasing and hitting Nichols, even as he appears to comply with the officers’ requests.
He added that in order to learn from this, people have to effect change by starting at the very beginning of police training.
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