{"id":1826984,"date":"2023-01-28T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826984"},"modified":"2023-01-28T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:58:07","slug":"protests-erupt-in-u-s-cities-after-memphis-releases-tyre-nichols-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protests-erupt-in-u-s-cities-after-memphis-releases-tyre-nichols-video-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Erupt in U.S. Cities After Memphis Releases Tyre Nichols Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprotests-erupt-in-u-s-cities-after-memphis-releases-tyre-nichols-video-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After five Memphis police officers released body camera footage showing the murder of Tyre Nichols, protesters organized in several U.S. towns on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Five former officers were allegedly involved with Nichols&#8217; murder.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/5-former-memphis-officers-charged-with-murder-in-tyre-nichols-death_5013511.html\">Arrest and Charge<\/a> On Thursday, with second-degree murder<\/p>\n<p>After video footage that showed a fight between Nichols, officers, was released Friday night, protestors took to the streets of different cities to demand justice and an end for so-called &#8220;regime change&#8221;. \u201cpolice terror,\u201d Others who share generic leftist messages \u201cclass struggle\u201d And \u201crevolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some locations may not allow this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-protests\">Protests<\/a> were led by the far-left group known simply as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-antifa\">Antifa<\/a>According to social media videos, he is known for being violent and confrontational during protests.<\/p>\n<p>Some protestors have caused property damage and blocked traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a dozen people blocked I-55&#8217;s busy bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee, across the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5017135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/28\/GettyImages-1460101874-1200x800.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5017135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-5017135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1460101874-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5017135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1460101874-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Demonstrators protest the killing of Tyre Nicks by police near the White House, Washington, January 27, 2023. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>A crowd of protesters gathered in Lafayette Park in the District of Columbia. It is located near Black Lives Matter Plaza, and opposite the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago saw approximately twelve protesters gather outside a precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters began to gather in New York City&#8217;s Times Square at 7:30 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1619168260011991040\">Video<\/a> on social media shows a man stomping on the front windshield of a police car surrounded by a large crowd in Times Square before he\u2019s wrestled to the ground by officers.\u00a0Grand Central Station was a>=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBKNEWS121\/status\/1619148983447998469&#8243;>reportedly<\/a> Anticipation of protests: Shut down<\/p>\n<p>Boston protestors also stopped traffic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5017136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/28\/GettyImages-1460129538-1200x800.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5017136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-5017136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1460129538-600x400-2.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5017136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1460129538-600x400-2.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A protestor stomps on a NYPD car&#8217;s window as people protest Tyre Nichols&#8217; death in New York City on January 27, 2023. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>In Seattle, a large group of\u00a0 Antifa militants marched downtown chanting \u201cblack lives matter\u201d And \u201csay his name,\u201d Rebel News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieDaviscourt\/status\/1619200063728926722?s=20\">reported<\/a>. Jonathon Choe, independent journalist, also captured an Antifa group blocking traffic at Seattle Center while chanting. \u201cno justice, no peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choe was told by a witness \u201cThey\u2019re doing \u2018no justice, no peace,\u2019 but they\u2019re leaving out \u2018no racist police.\u2019 They\u2019re not saying that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments were in relation to the officers charged in relation to Nichols\u2019s death being black. Nichols, too, was black.<\/p>\n<p>The officers\u2019 names are Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, and Justin Smith.<\/p>\n<p>They were also each charged with\u00a0aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping resulting in bodily injury, aggravated kidnapping involving possession of a weapon, official misconduct through the unauthorized exercise of power, official misconduct through the failure to act upon a lawful duty, and official oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols was a FedEx driver who died three days after the encounter with police on Jan. 10. Memphis has <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cityofmemphis\">Released footage<\/a> From police body cameras as well as a camera mounted on a pole that captured the traffic stop at which Nichols was stopped for reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>Police and government officials, as well as Nichols\u2019s mother, have called for protesters to remain peaceful. Authorities in different cities are making preparations to increase security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want us burning up our city, tearing up the streets, because that\u2019s not what my son stood for,\u201d said Nichols\u2019s mother,\u00a0RowVaughn Wells, on Thursday. \u201cIf you guys are here for me and Tyre, then you will protest peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1619143234034491397\"><\/a> He was \u201coutraged\u201d And \u201cdeeply pained\u201d After watching the Memphis footage. Wells also joined him in appealing to protesters for peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five Memphis police officers released body camera footage showing the murder of Tyre Nichols, protesters organized in several U.S. towns on Friday night. Five former officers were allegedly involved with Nichols&#8217; murder.\u00a0Arrest and Charge On Thursday, with second-degree murder After video footage that showed a fight between Nichols, officers, was released Friday night, protestors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1826983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5037,5744,15976,16774,3970,6171,16773,7238,4440],"class_list":["post-1826984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cities","tag-erupt","tag-memphis","tag-nichols","tag-protests","tag-releases","tag-tyre","tag-u-s","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}