SF Bay Area police agencies respond following release of Tyre Nichols traffic stop video

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Authorities on Friday launched police video that exhibits 5 Memphis officers beating Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, whose loss of life resulted in homicide prices and provoked outrage on the nation’s newest occasion of police brutality. Relations have pleaded for any protests to stay peaceable.

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The officers, all of whom are Black, had been charged Thursday within the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after a Jan. 7 confrontation with the officers throughout a site visitors cease.

Peaceable demonstrations are underway in Memphis, Washington DC and Philadelphia.

A small, additionally peaceable, demonstration happened in San Francisco early Friday night.

Bay Space police and companies are on alert following the discharge of the video.

San Francisco police Chief William Scott posted a video responding to the discharge of the bodycam video. Within the tweet that accompanied the video he wrote, “What I and everybody else noticed on the video pictures displays a disregard for the sanctity of human life and is the antithesis of the oath, we as regulation enforcement professionals, had been all sworn to uphold.” Go right here for his full assertion and a hyperlink to the video.

In a press release, the Oakland Police Division denounced the video. They mentioned, partly: “The men and women of the Oakland Police Division are deeply troubled and disturbed by the launched video involving Tyre Nichols and members of the Memphis Police Division. We stand with our group in denouncing this incident and all incidents of police brutality. Those that interact in such a conduct don’t have any place in our occupation.”

The Santa Clara County Police Chiefs’ Association also released a statement saying, partly, that they had been “deeply troubled by the horrific loss of life of Mr. Tyre Nichols by the hands of 5 ex-Memphis Police Officers. Our hearts exit to the Nichols household as they mourn the lack of their beloved one, and the regulation enforcement group whose status has as soon as once more been tarnished by a choose few who did not honor the Regulation Enforcement Code of Ethics.”

A number of police teams, together with one from San Francisco, joined collectively to launch a press release:

“The Los Angeles Police Protecting League, San Francisco Police Officers Affiliation, San Jose Police Officers’ Affiliation, and the State of Hawaii Group of Police Officers issued the next assertion relating to the horrific killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennesse.

The killing of Tyre Nichols by the hands of the 5 cowardly former Memphis cops is repugnant and the whole antithesis of how honorable regulation enforcement professionals conduct themselves on daily basis. These accused people had been fired, charged with homicide and different crimes, arrested, fingerprinted, photographed and jailed, identical to some other suspected legal. Their brutalization of Mr. Nichols was horrific and for his household to need to view the video of Tyre struggling by way of these evil acts is unfathomable. We pray that they discover the energy to take care of this unmitigated loss.

Our unions renew our pledge to work with Congress to enact nationwide policing requirements that mirror the requirements in place in Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, and Hawaii and require rigorous ongoing coaching on the responsibility to intervene, responsibility to render help, de-escalation, use of drive and different initiatives that may enhance outcomes between regulation enforcement professionals and the communities we serve. We encourage these excited about really doing one thing to go to www.investinpolicing.com.”

Fremont police Chief Sean Washington issued a press release saying, partly, “I don’t have all of the info of this incident; nevertheless, based mostly on what’s captured on video and particulars supplied by Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis, I’m compelled to talk up and converse out in opposition to these actions and conduct. I firmly consider the officers’ actions had been inconsistent with the core values of regulation enforcement and didn’t align with our responsibility to serve our group professionally, lawfully, and with dignity and respect.”

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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan launched the next assertion, partly:

“It’s brutal and appalling – and it by no means ought to have occurred… The rapid response by the Police Chief to fireside these males and resolution by the grand jury to indict them on second-degree homicide prices is precisely how justice needs to be enacted in instances of violence – swiftly and completely. San Jose is equally dedicated to holding accountable public servants who abuse their energy.”

Regarding the officers, Shelby County District Lawyer Steve Mulroy instructed a information convention that though every performed completely different roles within the killing, “they’re all accountable.”

Nichols’ relations and their attorneys mentioned the footage exhibits officers savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx employee for 3 minutes in an assault that the authorized workforce likened to the notorious 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.

“This younger man, by definition of the regulation on this state, was terrorized. Not by one, not by two, however by 5 officers who we now know … acted in live performance with one another,” mentioned legal professional Antonio Romanucci, who represents Nichols’ household.

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The officers “acted collectively … to inflict hurt, terrorism, oppression of liberty, oppression of constitutional rights, which led to homicide,” Romanucci mentioned.

Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis described the officers’ actions as “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” and mentioned that her division has been unable to substantiate the reckless driving allegation that prompted the cease.

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The Related Press contributed this report.