The Fox News host said elites in America were seeking to “inflame racial hatred” across the country.
Tucker Carlson has said the death of Tyre Nichols is being used to “inflame racial hatred in the United States,” suggesting on his Friday night show that America’s political elite had launched a “highly aggressive propaganda campaign … designed to manipulate you.”
The Fox News host made the comments after the authorities in Memphis released body cam footage of Nichols being beaten by police officers on January 7.
Nichols, aged 29, died in hospital three days after the traffic stop.
Five Memphis officers—Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith—have since been charged with a number of offenses including second-degree murder.
Carlson began his Fox News monologue by expressing his disgust at the body cam footage. He said: “That video is hard to watch, parts of it are brutal. It seems like an abuse of power, you can’t kick a man when he’s on the ground handcuffed.
