Fox Gets Extra-Racist After Video Is Released Of Memphis Police Beating Tyre Nichols To Death

From the Dept. of No Surprise: Five men with weapons viciously beat an unarmed man to death. Who (or what) is to blame? "Diversity training, anti-cop hate, affirmative action, and women".

Video showing five Memphis police officers beating an unarmed man to death on January 7 (the victim, Tyre Nichols, died three days later) was released a few days ago.

Naturally, the video offered clear proof that the first police report, written a few hours after Nichols was savagely beaten, was a complete lie. The initial report claimed Nichols was an aggravated assault suspect, was “sweating profusely and irate” (implying possible drug use) when he first got out of his car, pulled on officers’ belts, and grabbed for an officer’s gun (the officer was referred to as a “victim”). Nichols supposedly complained of shortness of breath. Exactly NONE of this was shown on the four videos. Nothing about the macing, tasing, punching, beating, and kicking Nichols. Nothing about the medical team doing nothing for more than 15 minutes after arrival (probab. All of it is a deliberate attempt to hide the truth and ultimately blame Nichols for his own death (the denial of medical help was probably in the hopes he would die).

Here is the first report from the Memphis Police:

Police lie. They commit crimes and they lie. They murder innocent people and they lie. They lie in court. They lie to the press. They lie all the fucking time. About matters big and small. The police lied and said George Floyd died after suffering some sort of “medical incident”. The police lied to get a search warrant before they murdered Breonna Taylor. The police lied and said Rodney King resisted arrest. And as the audio on the videos reveal, the Memphis cops were hard at work inventing a cover story as Nichols lay in the street — only sixty yards from his home. Why anyone would believe anything a cop says at any time is beyond me.

If you don’t want to watch the video of five Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols to death for absolutely no reason, There is this 13-tweet summation (which is still fairly horrifying):

Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) @IwriteOK

the start of the Tyre Nichols video shows a group of police, for no discernable reason, immediately escalating to violence, threatening and hitting a young man while shouting contradictory orders at him they threaten to tase him if he does not lie down, while he is lying down

Fox went from zero to fullfuckingracist in about 2.8 seconds. And five days later was still concocting conspiracy theories out of thin air.

Kat Abu @abughazalehkat

Memphis hasn't even released the bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols' death and Fox's Brian Kilmeade is already trying to both-sides it: "Does it bother you that you don't have the cops' perspective at all? It looks overwhelming, I get it. But don't we need both sides?"

nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR

Fox's Jesse Watters says he didn't see "any death blows" in the Tyre Nichols footage, and wonders what will be revealed in the toxicology report.

Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews

Jesse Watters has some amazing insight after watching the police body cam footage from the Tyre Nichols case. "Obviously that guy's pretty winded." This is what got him his own primetime show and what is mostly likely a heft paycheck.

nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR

Fox's Jesse Watters suggests the Memphis Police Chief may be trying to "cover up" of the real reason Tyre Nichols was stopped by police.

nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR

Of course Fox chose to interview "The War on Cops" author Heather MacDonald to react to the Tyre Nichols murder.

Kat Abu @abughazalehkat

Fox guest credits Tyre Nichols' death to "young Black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way." He then compares the Memphis police chief to a single mother, blames her for the "chaos, disunity + violence that we see in a lot of cities run by single mothers."

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence

tucker carlson blames affirmative action for the death of tyre nichols

Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews

An edit of Tucker Carlson on the Tyre Nichols body cam footage... Federalized police Race Riots Ashli Babbitt Ukraine The Military Industrial Complex Single Black women Election manipulation Memphis is the most dangerous place A city run by Black people and Antifa...

✊🏾 Chris Jackson @RealChrisJaxon

TheYoungTurks: We knew when the #TyreNichols video was released, #Republicans would viciously come up with any excuse to not blame the #police. Here's a compilation of the worst @FoxNews takes on heartbreaking footage 👇 #tytlive

Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews

All of the hosts on Fox News primetime were deeply concerned that no one should infuse race into the death of Tyre Nichols. I'm not sure why this was so important to the network but it was.

Kat Abu @abughazalehkat

🧵 We need to talk about some of the guests Fox News booked last night to discuss the killing of Tyre Nichols and the two things they have in common: 1. You probably don't know them unless you watch a lot of Fox News. 2. They have a history of horrendously racist commentary.

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

Morning Joe brings on a GOP Rep. to give a former firefighter/EMT’s perspective on the Tyre Nichols murder and he promptly blames it on Democrats and the radical left for criticizing police too much and hurting recruitment and gets zero pushback until Eugene Robinson finally …

Kat Abu @abughazalehkat

Frequent Fox News guest Victor Davis Hanson came on Laura Ingraham's show to lament about how police officers are going to be stereotyped by Tyre Nichols' death:

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

FL Sheriff Wayne Ivey complains that recent negative media publicity about police is hurting their ability to retain officers.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk

This is hands-down one of the most offensive 60-seconds of television I’ve ever seen.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk

Holy shit. Tucker Carlson’s guest just said the beating death of Tyre Nichols is what happens when you have “young black men being supervised by a single black woman.” He said this is what happens in cities “run by single black mothers” and blamed a lack of “male authority.” https://t.co/spysDorqMT

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

Grant Stinchfield: “This all could’ve been avoided with one simple move - Tyre Nichols could’ve complied from the moment he was pulled out of that car. If you watch this interaction, he never really complies until the very end.”

Aoife Boylan @AoifePBoylan

@RonFilipkowski Tyre Nichols was given 71 commands in 13 minutes by 5 officers, all while being assaulted by them. There was no way for him to comply.

nytimes.com71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible OrdersA Times analysis found that officers gave dozens of contradictory and unachievable orders to Mr. Nichols. The punishment was severe — and eventually fatal.

Michael Harriot @michaelharriot

If they say “get on the ground”’and you get on the ground, say “I’m on the ground” and you STILL get tased and pepper sprayed. What else are you supposed to do but run? So much for that whole “if he only he had complied” narrative.

Antonia Hylton @ahylton26

God. Part of the horror of the Tyre Nichols video - which I’m not sharing - is how what we hear officers say is the opposite of what we see. For ex - the demand to see his hands when they are holding his arms & kicking him. It appears they’re manufacturing a pretext for the stop.

CatMom @alisha_ann94

@IwriteOK Part of the reason cops will yell to do something their victim is already doing, like lying down or complying, is because they'll obstruct the body cam view & use the audio to imply that the victim was not compliant so they can justify their use of force.

KMH Music @KMH_Music

@IwriteOK The contradictory orders happen so frequently that it’s hard to believe it’s not intentional; at best, it’s a widely known, longtime issue that seems never to be addressed, let alone corrected. If you can only obey one of the multiple orders, you’re never “in compliance.”

Patrick Miller @AnalyticKilldIt

@IwriteOK I worked with an ex-police officer, I often thought he was just a liar, but one thing he said that always frightened me is that police are trained to escalate violence. Never meet the threat level, exceed it. He did not think that was an issue.

Frolicking Gadfly @FrolickinGadfly

@RonFilipkowski “This all could’ve been avoided with one simple move - Ashley Babbitt could’ve complied from the moment she broke through the window of that House chamber door. If you watch that interaction, she never really complies until the very end.”

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Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2

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Matthew Gertz @MattGertz

So weird -- Tucker Carlson promised us on Friday that antifa was about to burn down cities across the country in order to help their masters in the Democratic Party win elections, and totally forgot about it by Monday night so he could instead do all this really normal stuff.

Media Matters @mmfa

Fox News fearmongered about riots following footage release of Tyre Nichols’ killing. Protests were mostly peaceful.

mediamatters.orgFox News fearmongered about riots following footage release of Tyre Nichols’ killing. Protests were mostly peaceful.In the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the release of footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, Fox News repeatedly fearmongered about the likelihood of violent riots. Following its playbook from the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Fox News cited a seemingly inauthentic anti-fascist p…

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona

Well, would you look at that

John Kerr @JohnnyHeatWave

rip to all the cities we’ve lost in the culture war