Protests broke out across the country after the release of police bodycam footage showing the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops.
the country’s radical “Defund the Police” movement, which includes those calling for whole cop departments to be dismantled.
California Highway Patrol officers were put on alert in The Golden State, and Sacramento’s local chapter of the NAACP organized a gathering to watch the video release together. The California city isalready under a state of emergency Memphis’s top cop, Cerelyn Davis, on Friday compared her officers’ “heinous” actions to the notorious by Los Angeles cops in 1991, which sparked some of the worst riots the country has ever seen.
“I don’t want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets, because that’s not what my son stood for,” she pleaded.“Outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable,”
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