The 5 Memphis Police Officers who assaulted and murdered Tyre Nichols' (Open Forum)

**Please be advised this episode contains explicit content.

The former officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin and Desmond Mills Jr., have each been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, two charges of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of official misconduct and one charge of official oppression for their actions during the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols

According to studies, Blacks are 63 percent more likely to be stopped even though, as a whole, they drive 16 percent less. Taking into account less time on the road, blacks were about 95 percent more likely to be stopped. Blacks were 115 percent more likely than whites to be searched in a traffic stop (5.05 percent for blacks, 2.35 percent for whites).

• According to the 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey, 70.3% of the violent incidents suffered by black victims were committed by black offenders.
• Of the 6,000 homicide cases in 2015 where the FBI had known the ethnicity of the victim and the killer, 2,380 were black victims accosted by black killers. 2,574, on the other hand, were whites killed by whites.
• This represents an 8% increase from 2014.
• The proportion of black-on-black homicides to the number of black people killed was at 89.3% in 2015, the first time since the dawn of the 21st century that the rate fell below 90%.

Tune in and listen to an open dialogue from the community about how colorism, racism and many other factors play into black on black crimes.

What was the reason for the assault?

Why was it necessary?

Did the stop have anything to do with intercultural stigma?

How do white people view/feel the situation?

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