Following Tyre Nichols' death, Black activists have said that systemic racism in non-White people can lead police to violent action against people of color.
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins and Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell joined 'MediaBuzz' to discuss the fallout over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.has led to discussions among Black activists about how systemic racism can guide the actions and attitudes of non-White people.
The race of the officers has led to complex and challenging conversations among Black activists on police reform and claims of pervasive intuitional racism in policing, according to new reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post. The piece cited several studies that showed how Black police officers use force less frequently against Black civilians versus White officers but only to a"marginal" degree.
If the officers had been White,"…all hell would have broken loose. The city would have been in war," she said. The Times also highlighted Black voices, who said that uses of race and policing are a"function of an entrenched police culture of aggression and dehumanization of Black people" rather than"impersonal racism" among Black and White people.
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