What the videos don't show - WaPo

[GGoss]

What the videos don’t show

In an interview with The Post, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said there’s a gap in the video record her department is releasing: Authorities don’t have any video footage of the initial traffic stop.

The officer who initially stopped Nichols was driving a brand-new unmarked car that was not equipped with dashboard cameras, Davis said. The unit is assigned patrol cars, but they have the option to drive unmarked cars if they’re carrying out surveillance.

Davis said she doesn’t know why the officer was in an unmarked car, or how the initial encounter between Nichols and the officer unfolded.

When the video begins, “this officer and the other officer that joined were already ramped up about Mr. Nichols in his car,” Davis said. “If something did happen we don’t know what it was. They allege that he was driving on the wrong side of the road but we have not been able to prove that.”

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/28/tyre-nichols-police-video-description/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Gosh, I wonder if they were telling the truth about seeing him drive on the wrong side of the road??

[vanlassie]

2. And that's a killing offense.

[Woodswalker]

3. There definitely something missing here

Why did these cops rip him out of the car the way they did. Didn't look like a routine traffic stop and there's nothing video wise or other about what led up to this?

[SledDriver]

4. Very little is being said about the white guy who pulled him out of the car