OPINION: The prosecution of the Memphis police officers who killed Tyre Nichols stands in stark contrast with how the NYPD and other departments stonewall and protect abusive officers.
,” Mulroy added. “If there’s any silver lining to be drawn from this very dark cloud, it’s to start a conversation about police reform.”“He was a human piñata for those police officers,” a lawyer for Nichols’ family, Antonio Romanucci, said Monday after the family watched video of their son’s attack by the police officers. “Not only was it violent, it was savage,” he said, as Nichol’s mother started crying and repeated “Oh my God.
After police in 2006 fired 50 bullets, killing Sean Bell, the NYPD’s commissioner put five officers on paid leave—stripped of their weapons, but keeping their jobs. At the time,When NYPD officers shot dead Saheed Vassall in 2015, after he pointed what they thought was a gun that turned out to be a metal pipe, thefound the NYPD officers who shot Mr.
“The NYPD has a lot to learn,” Frank Serpico, the whistleblower whose revelations launched the Knapp Commission and earned him a bullet to the head, tells The Daily Beast. “It is more interested in protecting its image than exposing corruption.” “The reforms that have been implemented have been mostly procedural and technological, like a change in wording of use of force policies or the addition of body cameras,” Alex Vitale, CUNY Brooklyn sociology professor, and author of “The End of Policing,” tells The Daily Beast. “Things like new training have been implemented, but have failed to show any meaningful impact.
The brutality inflicted on Tyre Nichols is sufficient evidence that the Memphis PD badly needs reform and greater accountability. But New York can learn from Memphis’ example.
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