It was beginning to look like the 2020 BLM Summer of Love after Tyre Nichols died from a beating (allegedly) involving five Memphis cops. The BLM/Antifa Marxists got dressed up, but was it for nothing?
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There was damage, chaos, and destruction, but within days rumor and fact cut the legs out from under the mostly peaceful protests. Tyre’s beatification by the lefty elites was in danger. News broke that several officers might have been members of an influential gang.
Several of the “Cops” who beat Tyre Nichols to death might be Vice Lords Street Gang Members who were embedded into the Memphis Police Department after it allegedly lowered its standards in a desperate need to get bodies into uniforms.
In other words, it might be a gang hit.
A few days later, Newsweek (of all places) reported that “The Memphis Police Department is currently investigating rumors regarding a possible connection between Tyre Nichols and the ex-wife or ex-girlfriend of one of the Memphis cops arrested and charged in Nichols’ death.”
The ex-wife/ex-girlfriend narrative is still unconfirmed, and Nichols’ parents deny he had any such relationship, but would they know? Maybe, but let’s look at the action and reaction.
Nichols was tased, pepper-sprayed, and beaten to death at length after a traffic stop by a cadre of black officers with alleged connections to street violence. The traffic stop and the number of “officers” present suggest he was targeted. Why? No other motives have arisen, so it was another black-on-black hate crime, or they had a reason to meet and coordinate this “message.”
Was this street memo meant for someone besides Nichols, or was death not the intended outcome?
It looks Like a Conspiracy.
At least thirteen officers are under investigation concerning the beating death, either terminated or relieved of duty. Two EMTs working for the Memphis Fire Department (who triaged Nichols) have been fired. Two county sheriff’s officers have been let go.
This appears to be precisely the systemic institutional police racism that BLM and Democrats used to light the nation on fire in the Summer of 2020.
What happened to the parades, Democrats lining up at the nearest microphone, or renewed calls to defund more city police departments?
Is there some validity to the relationship revenge angle? Was it the unconfirmed connections to a street gang and a potential hit for other reasons? Or, and this is more likely the truth – whether any of those matters turn out to be fact – it was a black-on-black crime – the single most significant cause of injury and death for black Americans.
The democrat media never yanks a narrative rug out from under their political pals unless it advances some other progressive narrative. Distraction or redirection. It is just as easy for the nationals to ignore local outrage as to turn a blind eye to the inhuman disaster at the southern border or all of its domestic tranquility-disrupting side effects.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make any noise? If we don’t report it, did it happen? Their answer is no, it did not, and anyone who shines a light – at least these days – gets the Stasi fact check boot on their neck and labeled as a purveyor of disinformation.
It’s a digital hit, the virtual attempt of what was done to Trye Nichols, whose murder is becoming ancient history, the coverage sanitized by the gatekeepers.
