Suns coach Monty Williams and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich spoke candidly about the released video of Tyre Nichols fatally beaten by Memphis officers.
Rodney King was tasered and beaten by White Los Angeles police department officers March 3, 1991.
“As an African American who has watched for years White officers do horrible things to Black people, I never thought I'd see what I saw from African American policemen doing what they did to a young man who seemed defenseless and terrified out of his mind," Williams said.“It just never registered that could happen, especially when you look at what has happened to Black people in reference to that particular subject,” Williams said.
“So, I was inundated with a lot of emotions just thinking about my own boys, my relatives, thinking about different things that have happened," Williams said."Thinking about our players. You just feel so somewhat helpless in that it just doesn’t seem to be an answer in sight to stop all this silliness. Tragic.”
Williams said he and Suns assistant coach Mark Bryant had a conversation about being concerned over their children growing up in today’s society.
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