Scott Morefield: Tyre Nichols And The Race-Baiting Left

Tyre Nichols, 29, was allegedly killed by five Memphis police officers who caught him on camera beating and kicking Tyre after a traffic stop. The incident was condemned from all sides. There were peaceful protests in major U.S. metropolitan areas.

Despite the fact that few people want to mention it, this time there is unity based on two key facts. All five officers in this case are charged with second-degree killing. The brutality of the excessive force used by police in this situation was impossible to deny, even if it could be argued that Nichols should have been more cooperative (though honestly, whose fight-or-flight wouldn’t kick in after getting tased and pepper-sprayed like that?).

George Floyd was this, in other words. Unlike Floyd, the drug-addled criminal who once pointed a gun at a pregnant woman’s stomach and was deathly high on fentanyl at the time of his arrest, Nichols, by all AccountsNichols seemed like a genuine good person and a well-informed citizen. Nichols, while no one deserves to be killed by the police force, was not the least.

The fact that the officers charged were also black shouldn’t be a factor in a sane society, but it sadly is one because of the powder keg the BLM movement has created. Had those officers been white, Memphis would be in flames right now and the nationwide riots of 2020 would seem like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade compared to what urban America would be enduring.

Still, you’d think everyone commentating on this tragic event would look for other opportunities to race-bait and instead use this tragedy to point out the urgent need for better police hiring, more effective training, and an overall culture that doesn’t treat ordinary citizens like subjects to be obeyed. However, social media leftists continued to attempt to link the events to what they see as the source of every bad thing that happens. ‘muh white supremacy.’

“Anyone who says the killing of Tyre Nichols can’t be about racism because the cops were also Black doesn’t understand how white supremacy or anti-Blackness work,” Submitted Professional race hustler and self-identified “antiracism educator” Tim Wise proves yet again that these leftist grifters are capable of turning any situation into a pretzel in order to make white people look bad. It’s utter nonsense that anyone with half a brain can see through, but sadly far too many people have lost their brains in this age of mindless wokism.

Wise responded to the challenge with his statement Additional: “Of course there are individuals. But no individual operates in an institution-free vacuum. We don’t exist on an island, devoid of cultural/social stimuli. Somewhere these men learned to treat people this way, but not, apparently white people, of course.”

The problem with Wise’s analysis, of course, is that there have been plenty of white people killed by police. Notably More white people Police kill more black people each year than do black men, despite the fact black men still commit most violent crimes in America. For example, Have a look The facts surrounding the 2016 police killing of Daniel Shaver, and the officer who got away with it. Or Tony Timka, Whose killing? mirrored George Floyd’s in almost every aspect except for the fact that the video wasn’t released for three years, and the officers involved were never charged or even fired.

There was no national protest for those two men, nor for the many white people killed by law enforcement officers. And any reaction that did occur paled in comparison with the outcry of the left whenever even the most justified police killings happen (see Rayshard Brooks). Instead, most white people in white communities with high support for police assume that those who were arrested caused what happened. 

For the record, I disagree with this assumption. Police shouldn’t be allowed to run roughshod over anybody, no matter their skin color or socioeconomic status. Although I support any person being arrested for any reason to cooperate, and not cause an already dire situation to worsen, I also support prosecutions of officers who use excessive force and particularly wanton violence.

Perhaps some significant reforms could be possible if leftists were just as passionate about correcting corruption and police brutality as they are about fake race-baiting or inciting anti-white sentiments. Up until then, expect more of the exact same.

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