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The Last Sunset: Was Tyre Nichols Killed by Cops on Steroids?
Everyone is speculating about possible reasons for the barbaric murder, but no one is looking at the elephant in the room.
If you can stand it, take a look at the five Black police officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death on January 7th of this year. Look at their thick necks in the mugshots. And remember how much bigger they are compared to the 145 lb. Nichols.
If you can stand it, notice how the officers hulk away in the video after taking turns kicking Nichols in the face AND head. Something besides the inhumane violence is wrong in these pictures. These men don’t look normal.
Granted, it’s impossible to look at them now without seeing the tragic death of the 29-year-old aspiring photographer who lost his life at their hands for no apparent reason.
But look at them we must.
Because those thick-necked agents of death are physical reminders of the elephant in the room. The video none of us really wanted to see reveals an act so barbarous, so unnecessary, so patently senseless that we must look beyond the predictable soundbites we have all heard before.
