“You know you couldn’t get away with doing that in Tennessee to a white guy. You’ll find out you ain’t getting away with it doing it to a black guy,” Sharpton said at a rally.
“The vicious, unjustified beating of Tyre Nichols and his ultimate death at the hands of five Memphis police officers is just the latest, painful reminder of how far America still has to go in fixing how we police our streets,” the couple said in a dual Twitter statement Saturday.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith, were arrested on Thursday. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said the cops—who were all Black— “disgrace our race” at a rally in Harlem Saturday as groups across the nation protest against police brutality.
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