'It was police culture in America that killed Tyre Nichols,' attorney Ben Crump said on Friday.
"It's a painful moment for me as a victim of police abuse as a child," he said. "It was always my belief that diversifying our departments would allow us to have the level of policing that we all deserve.""It takes off the table that issues and problems in law enforcement is about race, and it is not," Chief Cerelyn Davis said. "It's about human dignity.
The former NYPD detective says that points to a code that men and women in blue sometimes choose to follow.
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