Memphis Cops Acquitted of Murder

Slate reports:

Tyre Nichols was murdered.

Not killed. Not lost. Not a life that simply “ended.” He was murdered. He was ripped from the fragile thread of existence by the deliberate choices of men who decided that his life did not matter. ...

But for Black Americans, the promise of due process is too often a mirage, a pledge written in ink that fades when touched. ...

For all the names I know — Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Rodney King, Atatiana Jefferson, Botham Jean, Oscar Grant, Stephon Clark, Sonya Massey — there are thousands more. Names that never became hashtags.

I did not follow this case, but the Black police defendants managed to get an all-white jury, and were acquitted of all state charges.

Some of them may have to federal time. The Constitution says no double jeopardy, but apparently there is an exception when Black want to lynch a cop.

I followed some of the above cases, and they were mostly stories of violent Black criminals who resisted arrest. If there were some systemic racism, I would think that someone would find a good example.