It was a series of mistakes and aggressive tactics that culminated in officers captured on video punching, kicking and striking Tyre Nichols with a baton after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, three retired police officers said.
Ed Davis, Boston’s police commissioner from 2006 to 2013, told NBC News on Saturday that videos of Nichols’ beating at the hands of the Memphis police on Jan. 7 “sickened” him.
“It’s not logical to me anymore that any police department in this country could do that type of punishment that we saw — street justice,” Davis said. “Was it a problem in the United States? Yes, it was. Is it still a problem in places? Obviously, we see this in Memphis.”
He continued: “When you see something like this, it’s just such a throwback to ancient police procedures.”
Davis said videos captured Memphis police acting like criminals.
“This whole incident should not be looked at as a police operation. It was more a street crime that…
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