In a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings some vindication to members of a Memphis Black community who live in terror of police. Often people don’t believe them when they tell how bad it is.
In police sweeps, unmarked cars roll into neighborhoods and armed plainclothes officers jump out, rushing traffic violators and issuing commands. The result is a community in fear, where people text, call and use social media to caution each other to stay inside or avoid the area when police operations are underway.
Chase Madkins was about a block from his mother’s Evergreen neighborhood home just east of downtown Memphis dropping off his 12-year-old nephew when the blue lights of an unmarked police car flashed behind him.Within seconds the officer ordered him out of the car and told him he made an illegal turn, and his license plate was not properly displayed because it was bent at the corner.
People want more police, Demster said, but “what they’re really trying to say is we want more detectives looking for violent criminals.”
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