Like they always do when a black man is killed during an arrest, ideologues are using the tragic death of Tyre Nichols to push an agenda. The case presents atypical challenges for the ideologue, namely that the five officers involved are black. While the true believers of “antiracism” are insisting that white supremacy is somehow to blame, demagogues of the more circumspect variety have calibrated their language a step. Joe Biden, for once, isn’t ranting about “white supremacy.” But the underlying message is the same as always: Tyre Nichols is the victim of a system that brutalizes black people.
To the propagandists’ benefit, the police video is graphic and fairly unambiguous in depicting the use of excessive force. But that is where the truth ends. Nichols was not killed by white supremacists, for reasons that are obvious to any rational person. Nor does Nichols’ death depict police brutality per se […]
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