Delineation here between when they were officers of law and when they were members of essentially a gang that decided they were going to move by perhaps bravado, perhaps by ego n some other way, to punish. and what s so striking and joey is so right i m a mother of a little boy who calls my name and calls out for me so often that it is so engrained in me to respond, to have almost a pavlovian reflex at the thought that he might need me. to think that 80 yards away, somebody s son was calling out until presumably he was no longer able to speak. maybe his jaw had been injured in some way. he was not communicating to the same degree. to think of what his mother is going through in the proximity of that moment. and this man, tyre nichols, died never knowing the answer to the first question he asked the officers. what did i do? and we still don t know. it is heartbreaking and just raises still more questions.