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  For real, all he did was unsuccessful try to shove Nichols to the ground, held a taser to his leg, and ran less than 50 yards after him once he ran. The fact that he was so winded would be concerning for anyone, let alone a police officer.
context: By the looks of those videos, they better keep going for awhile. >
  
  Every officer on scene did nothing to intervene. Every officer on scene therefore contributed to his death. They all need to go. >
  
  Yep, nobody tried to stop Tyre’s murder. They all just stood around and watched as he was killed. I saw in another video that 2 other Sheriffs from a different department were fired and 2 Firemen were also relieved of duty. 
  I hope this is the new norm. To just start cleaning house when something disgusting like this happens. Because it’s obvious the corruption runs deep in this department/city considering how many people were on that scene and not a single person was on poor Tyre’s side. 
  Going forward, this is exactly how it needs to be handled. Cops swiftly fired and charged for their crimes. Now if we can only fire and charge the corrupt judges and prosecutors who also play a huge part in this, we will be well on our way to actually reforming the judicial system. >
  
  Won't they just get hired one town over? >
  
  laws to prevent that are definitely necessary for reform >
  
  And a permanent record that follows you from a national level. The problem cops often just move to another precinct and start their reign of terror elsewhere - this has got to change. >
  
  We track sex offenders, why not public offenders? >
  
  and not just from the federal level, we don’t even track them on a state level >
  
  I'm an RN, I have a state board that I have to answer to that keeps a record of my complaints and decides whether or not my license is renewed every 2 years, without a certified license that employers can look up on the government website, I can't work as an RN... Lawyers, doctors and probably many other professions have the same thing. >
  
  And this is one of the reasons I will argue that law enforcement is not a profession. A profession should have extensive educational requirements and a governing body that handles licensing and keeps members accountable to to a strict set of standards. >
  
  I remember watching 'Boys In The Hood'
  One of the most poignant parts of the movie is where he gets abused by the harassing police officers... and it's explicitly shown that it's a black police officer who is harassing him.
  This isn't a new problem that nobody knew about. 
  It's an old problem that nobody did anything about. >
  
  "Black police showing out for the white cop" - N.W.A.'s Fuck the Police >
  
  Released in 1988. 35 yrs ago. >
  
  And now, in addition to angry, I feel old, too. >
  
  I'll grumpily join you in shaking my fist at the sky in pure middle-aged rage. >
  
  I'll join as soon as I switch out the orthopedic insoles in my skate shoes. >
  
  Did you lose your roller blades? >
  
  They're still in the basement. They were for street hockey, but when my wife's away I dig 'em out, put on my cutoff shirt, my wraparound glasses, and remind the rest of the world what they're missing out on >
  
  Reminds me of an old cherished memory. I was checking in on my grandparents on my way to work, they had been married for 65 yrs at that point (76yrs married when he passed). My Grandma was upstairs cutting coupons and doing whatever, not paying any attention to anything. I wandered the house and found my Grandpa in the basement, in a dark room by the boiler. Reading old newspapers and instruction manuals, under a crappy camp light. He notices me and says “shhh, she doesn’t know I’m down here” he was looking at his pile of stuff she told him to throw away decades ago. Stuff she saw when we cleaned her house out and said “he told me he got rid of that!”  It was amazing. Happily married, none the wiser. 
  Enjoy your street hockey stuff, in the dark basement and you will last a lifetime. >
  
  So Memphis creates a police outreach program designed to "Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods" and names it the motherfucking SCORPION unit??  Since when are Scorpions associated with peace?  They fucking sting your ass when you accidentally step on them. >
  
  The one where the scorpion kills the frog? Yeah. Its so ironic to use 'scorpion' as an acronym when that fabel exist to teach vicious creatures can not resist themselves and their goal is to create peace >
  
  undoubtedly intentional, malicious compliance to outreach mandates or negative PR >
  
  Ah.  They got Mr. “I hope they stomp his ass” after that quote made the news. >
  
  This was the officer that got so totally winded at the initial stop when he tried to chase Tyre down after he scampered off. >
  
  Did this dumbfuck pepper spray himself too? That mofo was huffing the whole fuckin time, fat fuckin cop