“I was outraged. It was incomprehensible to me,’’ Davis said of her officers’ violence against Nichols.
“It was unconscionable. I don’t think I’ve witnessed anything of that nature in my entire career. Really. It was that bad.
“You’re going to see acts that defy humanity,” she said, referring to the video capturing the beating. “You’re going to see a disregard for life, a duty of care, that we’re all sworn to. … There was an amount of aggression that is unexplainable.’’
The police chief of Memphis said that the fatal cop beat-down of Tyre Nichols involved “acts that defy humanity.”
Family of Tyre Nichols
Davisinsisted that the chilling incident did not involve race. The victim was black, as are the five accused cops.
“As this video will show you, it doesn’t matter who’s wearing this uniform — we have this same responsibility,’’ Davis said.
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“It takes race off the table,’’ the top cop said of the police brutality against Nichols. “It takes off the table that issues and problems in law enforcement is about race, and it is not.
“It is about human dignity, integrity, accountability and the ability to protect our community.”
In 2021, the Memphis force had about 56% black officers, according to a Fox TV affiliate. Black residents in the city made up about 65% of the population at the time.
Davis claimed that the cops involved in Nichols’ death did “absolutely’’ everything wrong in the traffic stop.
She noted that the department has been “unable to substantiate at this time’’ that Nichols was even recklessly driving, which is the reason the officers gave for stopping him in the first place.
“There’s no proof,’’ at least at this point, she said, noting that investigators had pored over surveillance footage from around the city in their probe.
Nichols, an avid photographer, was driving home from taking photos of the sunset at a local park when he was pulled over for alleged reckless driving, his family said.
The man fled the stop, only to be pursued by the cops, who quickly caught up with him and administered their beating, authorities have said. Nichols was pepper-sprayed, tasered, kicked, punched and restrained, according to his lawyers, citing the video.
Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, recalled to CNN how her son “cried out for me’’ while he was “beat like a pinata” — a scene eerily reminiscent of the infamous fatal police-brutality case of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2020.
“He cried out for me. … He was trying to get home to safety,’’ Wells said Friday of her son — whose funeral is set for Wednesday, with the Rev. Al Sharpton giving the eulogy.
“He was a mamma’s boy, that boy loved me to death,’’ she said, adding that she has been unable to watch the whole video but several people close to her have and described it for her.
“Where was the humanity? They beat my son like a pinata,’’ Wells said. “People don’t know what those police officers did to our family. And what they did to their own families.“They brought shame to their own families. They brought shame to the black community.I feel sorry for them,’’ the mom said.