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The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When Black people in America have mental health issues, we can not treat them like criminal issues.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can develop mental health courts where they will be treated like they have illness and not like they are criminals and degenerates not worthy of dignity and respect, irvo deserved dignity and respect.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know what is happening in America where law enforcement feels they can treat mental health issues like criminal issues. Especially if they are marginalized people of color. Especially if they are Black men.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was the culture that was just as guilty for killing Terry Nichols as those officers.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
That reprehensible conduct Memphis Police saw in that video, Memphis Police think this was part of the culture of the SCORPION unit, so Memphis Police demanded that they disbanded immediately before Memphis Police see anything like this happen again.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
All of these officers failed their oath, they failed their oath to protect and serve. Look at that video : Was anybody trying to protect and serve Tyre Nichols ?
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you see police officers commit crimes against citizens, then we want you to act just as swiftly and show as the chief said, the community needs to see it, but we need to see it too when it’s white police officers.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Everything he was trying to do was to better himself as a father for his 4-year-old son, he always said he was going to be famous one day. I didn’t know this is what he meant.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you see officers committing crimes on video, then you can’t tell us that you gotta go six months, you gotta go a year, here in Memphis, we might have the blueprint that it can be done swiftly and efficiently.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Five Memphis Police Department officers can state that preliminary findings indicate Tyre suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating, and that Tyre Nichols observed injuries are consistent with what the family and attorneys witnessed on the video of his fatal encounter with police on January 7, 2023.
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Davis and her family are very grateful to all of those who donated to her to be able to arrange for travel, by the time Ms. Davis has the procedure she needs next week, she would have carried this unsustainable pregnancy for an additional month and a half.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Regardless of what Louisiana lawmakers claim, the law is having its intended effect, causing doctors to refuse to perform abortions even when they are medically necessary out of fear of losing their medical licenses or facing criminal charges.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Ms. Nancy Davis was put in a horrifically cruel position by the State of Louisiana, left with only two choices : To carry the fetus until its inevitable death or to travel to another state to end the pregnancy weeks after she made the incredibly painful decision to do so.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This young man was the kind of son every parent hopes for -- an honor roll student, an aspiring athlete, and a kind-hearted person who cared about others, a fun theme park visit with his football team should not have ended in tragedy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This family is shocked and heartbroken at the loss of their son, this young man was the kind of son every parent hopes for -- an honor roll student, an aspiring athlete, and a kind-hearted person who cared about others. Needless to say, his family is absolutely devastated.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are a lot of reasons why Black children have to grow up without their fathers, but this reason is unacceptable, his father was shot unfairly, unjustifiably and unconstitutionally by somebody who’s supposed to protect and serve him.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I tell you brothers and sisters in Fayetteville, North Carolina tonight, that it is the right thing to do, that we speak up for the truth of what happened to Jason Walker, that we fight for the truth of what happened to Jason Walker.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We got to stop this vicious cycle in America of shoot first and ask questions later when it's Black people. It's unacceptable, i tell you brothers and sisters in Fayetteville, North Carolina tonight, that it is the right thing to do, that we speak up for the truth of what happened to Jason Walker, that we fight for the truth of what happened to Jason Walker.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have reason to believe that this was a case of ‘ shoot first, ask later, ’ a philosophy seen all too often within law enforcement, we look to the North Carolina SBI for a swift and transparent investigation so that we can get justice for Jason Walker and Jason Walker loved ones.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have reason to believe that this was a case of ‘shoot first, ask later,’ a philosophy seen all too often with law enforcement.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We pray for peace and justice for this innocent blood spilled.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They had dozens of other people who visited the home, nobody chased them, nobody said that they burglarized the home, why is that ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today, I pray for the victims, I pray for our country, I pray for our children and grandchildren, and I pray that this travesty of a case is an outlier on our path to a more just system, and not a signal of retreat backwards, because, we simply ca n’t afford it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If this was your child, how would you keep composure after you see these people lynch him and then you see them offer this self-defense and people are actually taking this as if it's credible ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's heart-wrenching. That's why Wanda Cooper-Jones need prayers, and Wanda Cooper-Jones need the pastors' prayers for Wanda Cooper-Jones, just so Wanda Cooper-Jones can try to keep Wanda Cooper-Jones sanity, if this was your child, how would you keep composure after you see these people lynch him and then you see them offer this self-defense and people are actually taking this as if it's credible ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Not only were Chauvin and the City of Minneapolis held accountable, but cities and states across the country have passed meaningful reforms, including restrictions on chokeholds and better training and protocols, we need this sentence to usher in a new era of accountability that transforms how Black people are treated by police. To achieve that – real, lasting change in police departments from coast to coast – we need the U.S. Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act without further delay.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It further demonstrates this notion of two Americas, because I have never seen when a Black person is on trial for murder anybody cares about whether or not they can get a fair trial or what people are saying in public.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The jurors have been given instructions only to pay attention to the evidence that happens in the court of law and not to watch TV and watch the news.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If ever there was a time in America where the police should be on their greatest behavior.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The family is glad she (Potter) got charged but they do hope and pray for a day where they get equal justice, why should we always get a fragment of justice.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's just so unconscionable and unbelievable... that within 10 miles(of) the trial regarding the killing of George Floyd is taking place that a police officer would yet again kill another unarmed Black man, if ever there was a time in America where the police should be on their greatest behavior.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
While we appreciate that the district attorney is pursuing justice for Daunte, no conviction can give the Wright family their loved one back. This was no accident. This was an intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of force. Driving while Black continues to result in a death sentence, a 26-year veteran of the force knows the difference between a taser and a firearm. Kim Potter executed Daunte for what amounts to no more than a minor traffic infraction and a misdemeanor warrant.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We feel this decision not only failed Jacob and his family, but the community that protested and demanded justice, this sends the wrong message to police officers throughout the country. It says its OK for police to abuse their power and recklessly shoot their weapon, destroying the life of someone who was trying to protect his children.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There's video that the family understands exists, that after seven minutes of him laying motionless on the ground, they did put him in handcuffs, so we're demanding that the other police bodycam video be released so the world can see that they continued to show disrespect to unarmed Black people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They didnt allow Grand Jury to do what the law says they have the right to do. This failure rests squarely on the shoulders of Daniel Cameron, only because a brave member of Grand Jury asked for permission to issue a statement and Judge OConnell ruled on the side of transparency do we have this confirmation of AG Camerons dereliction of duties.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
How ironic and typical that the only charges brought in this case were for shots fired into the apartment of a white neighbor, while no charges were brought for the shots fired into the Black neighbor's apartment or into Breonna's residence, this amounts to the most egregious disrespect of Black people, especially Black women, killed by police in America, and it's indefensible, regardless of how Attorney General Daniel Cameron seeks to justify it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Fortunately, a man who is paralyzed and fighting for his life after being shot seven times in the back, will no longer have to deal with the pain of having his ankles and wrist shackled and the traumatic stress of being under armed guard.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
George Floyd says in response to Thomas Lane. George Floyd was given no explanation as to why George Floyd was being questioned, according to the news report. Ben Crump, the attorney for the George Floyd family, said the footage reinforces that George Floyd posed no threat to the four officers. The more video evidence you see, the more unjustifiable George Floyds torture and death at the hands of the police becomes, although the allegation against George was for a non-violent offense involving a $ 20 bill, the police officers approached him with guns drawn, simply because he was a Black man.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
George died because he needed a breath, a breath of air, i implore you all to join his family in taking a breath - taking a breath for justice, taking a breath for peace.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They knew they were employing restraints that could or might cause death.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
George Floyd died because George Floyd needed a breath. George Floyd needed a breath of air.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We understand the righteous anger, but the violence is absolutely unacceptable. Unacceptable to George Floyd and unacceptable to us.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In many ways it is worse than Eric Garner because they got their knee on his neck and he is begging, pleading, not one minute... but eight minutes begging them to let him breathe, we cant breathe again in 2020.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They were supposed to protect and serve citizens like George, we in black America, we are done dying at the hands of the people who are supposed to protect and serve us.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is -- another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The police shot, we believe, because they feared a black man with a gun.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
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