The Memphis Police Department said that a seventh police officer had been relieved of duty earlier this month in relation to an ongoing investigation into the traffic-stop death of Tyre Nichols. The officer, who was not identified, was suspended alongside Officer Preston Hemphill, a white 26-year-old who was allegedly recorded yelling, “I hope they stomp [on him],” as Nichols ran from Hemphill’s colleagues as they beat him. Hemphill and “the other officer’s actions and inactions have been and continue to be the subject of this investigation since its inception,” according to a department statement.
It was unclear why the seventh officer’s identity was not disclosed.
Hemphill and the unidentified officer are not facing charges in Nichols’ death, unlike the five Black officers directly involved in beating him, who were arrested and indicted for murder last Thursday. It was also announced that the two EMTs and ambulance driver who responded to the scene had been fired for violating protocol and failing “to conduct an adequate patient assessment” of Nichols.
The Biden administration is desperately searching for a way to blame this entire incident on WHITE man. It seems like they got their sacrifice.
As much as I respect the police I do think some of them abuse their power. They probably go into the business to control people.
I’m speaking out of ignorance about this story but I do have a comment which needs to be said!
We expect police officers to go out there, each and every day, put their lives in the line, to protect us YET DO THE JOB HANDCUFFED BEHIND THEIR BACKS. This Tyre degenerate and those others, all have long arrest dockets, yet the judicial BROKEN system protects their rights. In NYC, at all construction sites, the law requires the lights remain on 24 hours each day because, said a building inspector to me, “historically there are robberies of tools and equipment at construction sites and we don’t want the pariah to get hurt as he trespasses to steal!” These officers know these human trash all too well. The vermin gets rewarded as we throw out the good!
Nice choirboy. Just like my homeboy Al Sharpton.
This bum died from taking the vaccines. It had nothing to do with the beat down he deservedly got.