In his eulogy for Tyre Nichols on Wednesday, Rev. Al Sharpton singled out the five Black Memphis police officers indicted for their roles in Nichols' death.
Noting that the alleged crimes took place not far from the Loraine Hotel, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered on April 4, 1968, while waging a protest campaign to try to ensure the safety of Black workers in the city, Sharpton drew a line connecting the legacy of the slain civil rights hero to the killing of Nichols.
"There's nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors that you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through them doors," Sharpton added."You didn't get on the police department by yourself. The police chief didn't get there by herself.
Sharpton's speech, by contrast, singled out the behavior of the officers and framed it in the larger context of racial relations in the U.S. "In the city that they slayed the dreamer," he continued,"what has happened to the dream? In the city where the dreamer lay down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern."
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