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CREDIT: CITY OF MEMPHIS phis Police o cers, enraged by their own incompetence, taking turns beating Tyre Nichols to death. e lenses of the two body cameras in Video 3 and Video 4 are obscured

An unnamed Memphis Police o cer smiles as EMTs examine Tyre Nichols. ree days later, Nichols died of injuries in icted by members of the Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION unit.

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at crucial moments in ways that look deliberate, but they record the sound of Nichols crying out for his mother, and one police officer gleefully declaring, “I’m gonna baton the fuck out of you!”

The only area this “elite squad” is welltrained in is how to safely use the state’s monopoly on violence to their advantage. The cops chant, “Give me your hands!” as an incantation to invoke qualified immunity. They are performing for the body cameras, giving viewers — and the courts — permission to blame the victim.

As horrifying as the violence is, the banality of what follows is even more disturbing. One cop props Nichols up on the side of a car to take a trophy picture of his handiwork. When the braindamaged Nichols manages to slur some words, one of the cops who damaged his brain accuses him of being “high as a motherfucker.” Another killer cop brags about throwing “haymakers” at the restrained civilian. The EMTs whose duty it is to render aid to Nichols instead treat him with depraved indifference.

Rumors have circulated that Tyre Nichols was targeted by a cop with a grudge. But that’s just wishful thinking. The truth revealed by these four videos is far worse. Amid all the horror, the image that sticks in my mind is of a Memphis police officer who arrives late to the scene. He sees Nichols, bloody and broken, and he grins. The cops of the SCORPION unit were doing the job they were hired to do: controlling a subject population through violence and terror. They were bros celebrating a win.

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