Paul Butler, a Georgetown Law Professor and legal analyst for MSNBC, said that Republicans in Congress were to blame for Tyre Nichols‘ death because they “stood in the way” of passing police reform laws.
Thursday night, Butler joined MSNBC host, the race lady, Joy Reid on “The ReidOut” and said that congressional Republicans blocked “common sense police reform” that could have stopped the excessive force that killed Nichols.
Whenever liberals use the term “common sense reform,” what they’re really saying is the legislation that we put forward should be accepted by you or you’re just a bad person.
Fox News Digital said that multiple Memphis PD officers have each been charged with “seven felony charges, including one count of second-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault, one count of official oppression and two counts each of aggravated kidnapping and official misconduct” for the brutal incident that killed Nichols.
The police department released body cam and surveillance footage of the attack on Friday night. This made the situation in the area even worse. In the most tense part of the video, three officers are holding Nichols down while one of them hits his face and head with his fists several times. One of the officers did a full swing punt into Nichols’ head while he was down on the ground and handcuffed.
RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, knew that the police footage would be horrible, so she told people at a candlelight vigil on Thursday to “protest in peace”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELReid goaded Butler into saying what he did by talking about how police departments have a “sort of gang mentality” and have been “allowed for decade after decade to operate with impunity.”
She asked Butler, “Is that what this is, a culture problem that’s bigger than necessarily just the race of the officers?”
Butler gave a positive answer: “It’s 100% a culture problem. Old school policing lore says if a guy tries to run when officers want to arrest him, he pays for it. Bad apple cops follow that principle, but that’s not what the majority of hard-working, law-abiding officers do or should do.”
Butler also said that Nichols had every reason to be afraid of the police. But as he went on, he said that Republican lawmakers were partly to blame for these bad cops.
He said, “But we know that many people, especially Black and brown people, have complaints that police use excessive force, and typically those officers are not even disciplined, much less charged with crimes.”
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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 28, 2023
The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller answered the MSNBC legal analyst with a picture of CNN’s report on Sen. Tim Scott‘s (R-S.C.) own police reform bill, the “Justice Act.” The headline of the 2020 report said, “Senate Democrats block GOP police reform bill, throwing overhaul effort into flux.”
He then took a subtle shot at Democrats in Memphis, Tennessee, by saying, “And as I have repeated, we’re not going to have a conversation about which party has run policy in Memphis for the last 30 years.”
Who was it again who blocked Tim Scott’s bill in the Senate? https://t.co/YCSAjLUu3J
— Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) January 28, 2023
Phineas Fahrquar, a well-known conservative Twitter user, asked, “Who was it again who blocked Tim Scott’s bill in the Senate?”
And the conservative writer Doug Powers tweeted, “Awful things that happen in Democrat-run cities are somehow always the fault of Republicans.”
Awful things that happen in Democrat-run cities are somehow always the fault of Republicans. https://t.co/wRmNz4f5ou
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) January 28, 2023
Yeah, isn’t that something?
