Protesters in San Diego denounce Tyre Nichols' beating death, police violence [Breaking]
About 50 protesters gathered in downtown San Diego on Friday night to denounce the beating death of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis and speak out against violence by members of law enforcement.that shows Nichols being beaten and pepper sprayed by police after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.Some of the San Diego protesters held a banner that read: “The People Demand: Jail Killer Cops! Nothing Less.
The videos, most of them recorded on the officers’ body-worn cameras and one from a surveillance camera, show police punching and kicking Nichols for several minutes while yelling profanities at him. “If they actually wanted to change anything, they would change the systems of policing that enable this to happen over and over again,” Maravilla said in an interview. “Just charging people who are doing what their job asks them to do fundamentally is nothing.”“I grew up as a Black man in America,” he said. “The entire history of my people in this country is police brutality, murder and lynching. Unfortunately it’s just not surprising.
Miller said he was hurt by the fact the officers accused in Nichols’ death are Black. But, he added: “The fact is they are not Black, they’re not White, they’re blue,” he said, referring to the color of a police uniform. “That’s the issue. … Law enforcement is taking these lives.”
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