Opinion: Tyre Nichols and Rodney King police beatings present disturbing and telling parallels [Opinion]
The details are different, but the sorrow is the same, and here we are again — anguished and angry and asking questions as a nation about the brutal Jan. 7 beating of Tyre Nichols by police after a traffic stop in Memphis was captured on video footage showing five officers torturing the 29-year-old Black man. Nichols died three days later.
But both the specific details caught on video in the Memphis case and the larger questions about what the case says about enduring attitudes in law enforcement demolish the idea that progress happened here. Yes, there was a prompt decision to hold the officers, who were all Black men, as accountable as possible.
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