Tucker Carlson tried to make the argument Monday that affirmative action was actually responsible for Tyre Nichols’ death at the hands of Memphis police.
by the department after the social justice protests spurred by the death of George Floyd in May 2020—a fact that the Fox News host cited to try to make his case.
Carlson called the two officers, Demetrius Haley and Tadarrius Bean, “affirmative action hires” who had been brought onto the force under “lax, diversity-driven standards.” “Instead of admitting that it’s true, the media are diverting attention from that fact by accusing the five officers, who are all black, of somehow being white supremacists,” Carlson claimed before showing news clips of commentators and journalists discussing the issue.“They were about changing the country forever.
The Memphis Police Department nixed a requirement that candidates have an associate’s degree or 54 college credit hours, but that was in 2018,
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