Tyre Nichols’ mother and Memphis police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis are two women caught on different sides of a tragedy
Beaten and broken, struggling to survive, Nichols had called out for her aspunched him, kicked him, and hit him with a baton after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.
“There were failures of who should render aid, who should have notified, who went to the mother’s house, how they communicated,” Davis told the Associated Press in a Jan, 27 interview."Why did the chief get notified at 4 o' clock in the morning and the incident occurred at 8 o' clock the previous night?”
Davis, the first Black woman to run the Memphis Police Department, faced heavy criticism. As she and other city officials came to grips with what had happened, they gradually took steps to hold the officers accountable, share the horror of the case with the public, and try to minimize the possibility that the incident could set off unrest in Memphis and beyond.
Wells cried throughout a Jan. 17 memorial service for her son but would not speak publicly until later. “I wasn’t there for my son. I was telling someone that I had this really bad pain in my stomach earlier, not knowing what had happened,” she said. “But once I found out what happened, that was my son’s pain I was feeling.”Tyre, on the day of the arrest, had seen her pulling out some chicken before he left the house at around 3 p.m. to snap pictures of the sunset at a suburban park, she said.With sesame seeds.In a late-night video statement released Jan.
"We don’t know what happened,” Davis said. “All we know is the amount of force that was applied in this situation was over the top.” Also present were relatives of Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean, Jalen Randle and Floyd — Black people who also had been cut down by police.
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