Tyre Nichols: The Memphis Police Didn’t Fail. They Did Exactly What They Were Designed to Do

Chris Newman
5 min readJan 29
My good brother, you deserved so much better than this.

“This is the definition of excessive force.”

“We do our level-best to weed out officers who are looking to exercise power and violence.”

“What we’ve seen breaks every rule and guideline in police training.”

Chris Newman

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