Many in the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated over five decades ago are struggling to understand how five Black officers could be behind the violent death of Tyre Nichols.
In the days since Nichols’s killing, members of the city’s official Black Lives Matter chapter, among others, called for the end of the specialized police unit named, which was created in late 2021 with the goal of increasing police presence in high-crime neighborhoods at a time when homicides were surging in the city. All five officers who beat Nichols were members of that unit.
Protesters across the U.S. marched to call for justice and police reform on Jan. 27, after Memphis police released the video of the beating of Tyre Nichols. Holmes said he is proud to live in a majority Black city, where he looks around every day and sees Black business owners, Black patrons and Black leaders. That feeling, however, does not extend to the Black police officers who monitor his city streets.
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