The worst was to be feared, Friday evening, in Memphis, while waiting for a video showing the savage attack on Tire Nichols by 5 police officers. Blacks, too. Three years after the George Floyd affair and the Black Lives Matter protests, police reform remains at a standstill across the Atlantic.
By Maurin Picard
LTheir smiling faces spread out in one of the New York Times. Five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers suspended for beating a 29-year-old Fed Ex delivery boy, Tire Nichols, who died of internal bleeding three days later in hospital. The tragedy would be trivial, in the vitiated context of racial tensions across the Atlantic, if the five men were not themselves black: Thursday, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith were charged murder on Thursday, relieved of their duties and remanded in custody. They are the subject of several counts, including murder, assault and battery and kidnapping.
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