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Trump says ‘horrible’ beatdown of Tyre Nichols ‘never should have happened’

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Former President Donald Trump says the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops “never should have happened.”
Trump, 76, added that the video of officers allegedly murdering Nichols in a vicious beatdown was “horrible,” joining the large number of leaders from President Biden on down in condemning the attack on the 29-year-old FedEx worker and dad of a 4-year-old boy.
“I thought it was terrible. He was in such trouble,” Trump told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday, referring to Nichols in the excruciating body-cam and street surveillance footage. “He was just being pummeled. Now that should never have happened.”
The video, released Friday, showed police holding down and striking Nichols for 3 minutes with their fists, boots and baton as they screamed profanities at him.

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