“A dog being beaten would have been gotten some help from somebody by this point,” Jones said
CNN Political Commentator Van Jones became emotional on Friday while discussing the appalling footage of the assault of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis. The video, Jones said, was “brutal, inhumane, unacceptable, unjustifiable,” and “as bad as people say.”
But it also exposed a lack of humanity and utter cowardice by the police who beat and eventually murdered Nichols. “Even if you couldn’t see it, you could hear the inhumanity here,” he said.
We will not show the full video of the assault, but it’s important to know that Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, was followed home by police officers the evening of Jan. 7 and pulled over for what they claimed was ‘reckless driving’ less than 50 yards from his residence. Of course, the Memphis police chief has since said that camera footage from other locations in the area doesn’t support that claim and that nothing appears to have justified the stop.
Police were immediately aggressive and violent with Nichols, actions local authorities say were “unexplainable,” and eventually they brutalized and beat him mercilessly for several minutes.
