Far from “restoring peace,” officers in the SCORPION unit turned the streets of Memphis into a violent scene that led to death, writes Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
The Memphis police officers who killed Tyre Nichols were members of a unit called SCORPION the Street Crimes
we got kazuo montez, we got paula barris, we got hunter dempster and aaron sherman en. l. jay abraham and frank gotti and pam moses, we wouldn t be here without you activists, so thank you. w50e8d not be here. a lot of times we acknowledge the people in high positions, but it s the people who on the ground on the front line like you taught me, reverend al, who make the difference. so let me just be as constrained as i can and give the call to action. i do so on behalf of my co-counsels, antonio rom unusual chi, ernestine and van turner,
0 something, i don t know what you writing on social media. i know what i saw on the tape. and the tape speaks for itself. they never asked this man for his license. never asked for the car registration. snatched him out of the car and began beating him. nobody mentioned nothing about no girlfriend. nobody mentioned nothing about no they started beating an unarmed man. tell em. in the city that they slayed the dreamer, what has happened to the dream? in the city where the dreamer laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes. and you watch him and you were too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream? well, we ll just tell them s