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Tyre Nichols
February 3, 2023
Anthony Conwright
Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle
The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.
February 1, 2023
Grace Segers
The Urgency of Police Reform Is at the Mercy of a Divided Congress
A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.
January 30, 2023
Tori Otten
A White Officer Involved in Tyre Nichols’s Death Has Been Put on Administrative Leave
Preston Hemphill is the sixth officer implicated in Nichols’s death. The five others, all Black men, were charged with second-degree murder.
January 30, 2023
Michael Tomasky
Armed Cops Should Not Be Making Traffic Stops. Period.
How much carnage do we need to see before we understand that we have to radically change how traffic violations are policed?
January 28, 2023
Michael Tomasky
“I’m Just Trying to Get Home”: Memphis Police Release Videos of Fatal Beating of Tyre Nichols
The city of Memphis police released four videos of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
January 27, 2023
Prem Thakker
Tyre Nichols’s Mother: “They Beat My Son Like a Piñata … I Feel Sorry for Them”
In a gut-wrenching interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Tyre Nichols’s mother discussed the police killing of her son.
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