Tyre Nichols

Special interest Article
Anthony J. Iantosca, BCFE
IAFEI

January 30, 2023

Published by Anthony Iantosca, BCFE
For the International Academy of Forensic Examiners and Investigators.

Horrific

A word everyone is using right now and rightfully so. I have listened to all the media and many politicians over the last few days. All of them are stating the same nonsense. It is "white supremacy or it is racism we need police reform, defund the police and everything else under the sun they can come up with." Most of these talking heads if not all of them have never lived or worked in the street. None of them have any street smarts. I do.

I have watched the video over and over again. The behavior and body language of the police men involved in this murder is telling me something else. There is something else at play here. This was a beat down, there was a reason they acted the way they did. What was their motive?

Watching them act the way they did over a traffic violation does not make sense to me.

It looked like a retribution beat down for some past slight. Did one of these police officers have a grudge against this man. Did they have a run in with him before and this was their chance to get even and teach him a lesson.

The way they pulled him out of the car when they stopped him reminds me of " I got you now and we are going to teach you a lesson." It almost came across to me as a jealous man who caught up with a man who was having an affair with his wife or girlfriend and he gave him a beat down and his fellow officers played right along with him. You disrespect one of us, you disrespect all of us herd mentality way of thinking thinking. This looked like a gang beat down. Not a routine traffic stop.

I could be wrong here but none of this is making any sense to me.

This had nothing to do with racism or white supremacy. This had more to do with out of control, poorly trained police officers who were drunk with power. These were criminals with a badge and a gun. Ninety nine percent of law enforcement men and women put their lives on the line everyday for all of us. Please do not hold them accountable for the bad actions of a few. These men should have never become police officers in the first place. Law Enforcement men and women nation wide need our support. Everyone across the country regardless of skin color was outraged over this criminal act. All of these men will be held accountable and rightfully so.