Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was beaten by 5 police officers from the SCORPION unit. He was hospitalized after the arrest on January 7 and died three days later.
In one conspicuous instance of concurrent programming, Killing County by Colin Kaepernick, the titular head of BLM will be released to Hulu on 2/3/2023. Its focus is on structurally violent policing, not specifically on White police on Black violence. This is relevant as the five cops charged in the killing are Black so this isn’t fitting that specific dialectic.
In initial photographs, Tyre Nichols is seen in a shirt that says LOVE and has the number 3 on it. This seems like a callback to Damar Hamelin, who is surrounded by 3’s, love, and hearts. The activists also have LOVE on their beanies.
Three-minute beating. Dies 3 days later.
He supposedly cried for his mother during the beating and she felt his pain. This is reminiscent of the. George Floyd's death where he was said to have cried for his mother.
“Ah..the power of mothers”: Bereaved mothers as victim-heroes in media enacted crusades for justice”https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1741659015623597
“The display of maternal suffering is powerful, as the bereaved mother’s experience represents any parent’s deepest fear. When her pain is enmeshed with calls to support changes in our justice systems, it has the potential to bring about unconstitutional effects, for a mother’s love has no end and so her life sentence can only be addressed with equal amounts of endless suffering for the said offender (Valier and Lippens, 2004). This paper explores the construction of the bereaved mother figure as a victim-hero within contemporary media-enacted crime narratives."
Forrest Crump is on the scene. He said it, “…reminded them of the beating of Rodney King, and that the officers had used Nichols as a "human piñata”.
Colin Kaepernick’s “Killing County” which focuses on police brutality and emphasizes their lack of trustworthiness, gets released next week. I would consider this an example of Concurrent Programming. It will be relevant to shaping the public’s attitude toward the Tyre Nichols bodycam footage and what must be done about it.
There are comparisons to Emmett Till and Rodney King:
Jamika Hill stated that Emmett was left unrecognizable.
We will likely see something equivalent with Tyre Nichols.
The SCORPIONS moved in unmarked cars, bumped rap music, and blended in with the community, but would reportedly react with surprising speed. Only after the officers got out of their cars would people see “SCORPION” on the backs of their vests. They are described as an “internal gang”.
Rodney King was attacked for 1 minute 19 seconds and hit 33 times. We saw riots after. 1:19 a reverse of 9/11, which began at 8:46 AM.
George Floyd was asphyxiated for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Sunset in the twin cities that day was 8:46 PM.
Jay Walker was shot by 8 cops 46 times.
Amir Locke, was shot 6:48 AM, a reverse or “a mirror” of 8:46
Jesus is betrayed by Judas, one of the twelve. Judas represents Scorpio the scorpion. Scorpio stings the sun condemning it to death.
SCORPION put him in the hospital after a THREE-minute beating, died THREE days later.
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