What Memphians had to say at City Council after Tyre Nichols police reform ordinances pass

Councilmembers debated for hours Tuesday as the final readings and vote for all 6 police reform measures took place, measures introduced after Tyre Nichols' death.

[@MrLafrontera]

WE NEED POLICE OFFERS, but we need them to behave accordingly to the laws, just like any other citizen. We should NOT be afraid of the police, but we should be respectful of the laws. We all feel pain, doesn't matter if you are a police or not! Being a police officer does NOT give you the authority to go into the communities and discharge your emotional anger just because you feel you have authority over the citizens. RESPECT, AND YOU WILL BE RESPECTED!!

[@doughesson]

Facing a police officer doesn't give anyone the Right to refuse the instruction to identify yourself & show proof that the vehicle you are in is properly registered & insured as required by law.

[@timfrierson2970]

@doughesson if you targeted it is and people know when they are being targeted

[@timfrierson2970]

And it's a damn shame we got white policemen and black policemen killing blacks

[@doughesson]

@@timfrierson2970 That's just paranoia. If you could tell me how to identify the race & gender of the driver of a vehicle speeding down the street at night time,I'd be obliged.

[@timfrierson2970]

@doughesson you tell me this you ever seen have you ever seen white cops take a white man or white woman out they car and beat the hell outta them nah I don't think you have

[@gertrudebuck366]

That Smirk on The Black Police Woman’s Face , WAS MOST CERTAINLY NOT A GOOD LOOK NO MATTER WHAT SHE WAS PLEASED ABOUT! BECAUSE SHE TOO NEEDS TO BE LOCKED UP/DOWN WITH THE CORRUPT SCORPION TEAM!

[@uncleshreddedwheat6180]

Make all police complaints placed in public records meaning the complaints are given directly to the city council.

[@tyardovdabulldht2340]

EMT's must be mandated to wear Body cam to record the aftermath of OBVIOUS POLICE BRUTALITY!

[@sunshyneladi4836]

He doesn’t see the need, because he’s not likely to be targeted, and he knows it.

[@timfrierson2970]

Of course he white thats why ain't none of they ass getting beat or killed when you ever turned the News on seeing a white man or white women getting beat by police none

[@xyPERSON]

Exactly! It must feel so good for him and others like him to live under a blanket of white privilege.

[@jasondawson92]

It’s not what the police do it’s how they do it without accountablity and we will not stop into we get justice we will rip this country up

[@robertfrank9936]

This behavior will stop when we hold Police accountable for their behavior.

[@mamabear3217]

Good for them, citizens should be allowed to take off work to go to city council meetings

[@abrahama7921]

Defund the police 🚨 now Fire the police chief of Memphis

[@Notafemalecasual]

Yes sir ...she's the problem

[@ShawnA3104]

Naw, CJ Davis is fineeeeeee and cute af; I want her to stay; I live 55 minutes from Memphis actually

[@Notafemalecasual]

@@ShawnA3104 lol...stop playing Shawn ..😂😂you play too much

[@joebigguybiden]

You want more murders in Memphis? Then who will be scapegoat? Not even the cops that murder in Memphis are white 😂😂

[@abrahama7921]

This is not a joke we are being hunted.the black officers were coons uncle Toms but the system is all white.and we are slowly being hunted.thats why they legalized weed so we can fall asleep again and then wap they will get rid of us

[@bobbysmith1522]

How about hiring better human beings as law enforcement officers! Get to the real issues from the top down!

[@r.pres.4121]

How about making educational requirements for police officers much more rigorous. Also a thorough mental health evaluation for all police recruits.

[@user-if4df7lk1z]

It is a small step but in the right direction. The people of Memphis need to continue packing city counsel meeting. A white saying he fills safe with unmarked police. That should have been his brother instead of Tyre. Not that I want that to happen. But white people feel safe with police and black people do not. It comes more and more clear why police do what they do to black people.

[@tamieholmes1725]

WORK AS A COMMUNITY and take down UNLAWFUL arrest and profiling together instead of individually

[@ericsj40885]

Bring back stop and frisk, unmarked cars all that to give law enforcement the upper hand , crime is out of control. You people know it Vote republican to see a difference in crime and sentencing to put these criminals in a cage for much longer than the book n releases they get on a daily basis for horrific crimes. Blue Lives Matter 💙.

[@yayobadazz92]

Fuck a blue live matter wat they need do have mre harsh for these dirty racist ass cop

[@r.pres.4121]

Voting Republican isn’t going to change a damned thing. Stop and frisk violates constitutional rights. Cops need to be made accountable for all their actions and they shouldn’t have qualified immunity. Unmarked cars should be forbidden we the people have the right to know when the cops are around. You are a fascist why don’t you go live in Russia 🇷🇺.

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

They need to put their law enforcement under Federal Consent Decree and be done about it already. Memphis ranks Number One in crime on top of being the "hub city" of the entire USA. Let's talk about Graceland (or the TVA) instead. I was there. I saw Elvis' VCR, his Graceland gates, and everything.

[@blaq7892]

It may be to late,but a while ago, it was Public Safety. Phase out the present culture, return to PS. I know, crazy?

[@vickytaylor5464]

Meeting are a must, But its sad to say we still want feel safe in a city with police brutality killing our citizens and we pay their salary, Bankruptcies on the city.

[@gloriaclayton2477]

C J Davis need to be fired.

[@TnTravelingman]

👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@cinderella23queen37]

Install video cameras on the police cars

[@doughesson]

That's been done for years. Police officer worn body cams were demanded to show interactions between officers & the people they arrest but when the vast majority of the recordings showed the suspect being the instigator instead of the innocent victim of police violence, defense attorneys started moving to exclude the evidence.

[@mykidneysaremylifeline8145]

I work in the security field and have a camera in my patrol car and it is made in China. It tells me what and when I am doing something wrong and she is always recording.

[@187TACT]

LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS TO HAVE A STANDARD WEIGHT, NEEDS TRACK TRAINING SO THEY CAN RUN WHEN SOMEONE RUNS, TAKE FOOTBALL TRAINING SO THEY'RE ABLE TO TACKLE SOMEONE DOWN, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY TAKE MILITARY MENTAL TOUGHNESS TRAINING. PARAMEDICS NEEDS TO START WEARING A BODYCAM, AND SWEAR IN PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ALLOWING THEM TO START MAKING TRAFFIC STOPS, ALSO WEARING BODYCAM AND ARMED FOR THEIR SAFETY AS WELL, ALL THEY DO IS GIVE PARKING TICKETS AND DIRECT TRAFFIC. BUT MOST OF ALL START GIVING POLICE OFFICERS THAT SAME MENTAL TOUGHNESS TRAINING AS THE MILITARY, SINCE THEY WANT TO BEHAVE LIKE THEY'RE IN THE MILITARY.

[@blaq7892]

Memphis is sorry, I always would say we need our sons, cousins, Uncles ,dads as the police. Unfortunately the Black cops are only black off duty out of town.

[@kitsmith806]

Too many people here are talking about "if you follow instructions or if you comply" blah blah blah... Well targeted ethnic groups have seen/witnessed and experienced situations where people (not only people of color BUT mostly people of color) have complied, have followed instructions and still been brutalized,some even executed in the street without impunity and without the benefit of America's due process of arrest judge, jury while still alive, still breathing... As situations where police officers have lied (up until someone produced videos of the truth) on their reports, where they have deliberately turned off their body cameras, where they "fear for their lives against an unarmed person of color who would be cuffed and lying face down (oddly enough,the cops are rarely in fear for their lives against ARMED white people who they (again,not always BUT usually) manage to arrest them with their weapons, take them to jail so they can live long enough to face a judge, to enjoy American due process... In the case of Tyre Nichols, it was shown and admitted by a superior officer that Tyre WAS NOT driving recklessly, was not shown to have committed a traffic violation so his being stopped by that roving bunch of Blue gangsters with badges, was uncalled for and Tyre had a right to fear for HIS life! I'm not surprised though by some comments here because some people (usually not people of color) will continue to live in their assumptions about people of color, that they are all criminals,all non compliant, all must be guilty of something even when it may be clear that they aren't, because well dark skin itself is a crime and a weapon to be treated with deadly force to some of you!

[@gloriaclayton2477]

I know Miss Davis don't have nothing to say until it come-down to her police officer then she got everything to say😢

[@danettedennis4852]

🙏 ❤

[@turtletruth]

Police don't make anything safer!

[@enriqueaguilar4633]

I fell safe

[@Hi.malone]

🗽👀🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽

[@sethbrunfiedsr5194]

smell likes some bs to me too little way too late

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

It's shameful that Memphis is the "hub city of the USA", and look at all that goes wrong with it. I wish Elvis was still alive to see it.

[@r.pres.4121]

Memphis has been woefully mismanaged just like St Louis and New Orleans. All three cities are a horrendous mess and all three are among the most dangerous places in the country.

[@joebigguybiden]

Now the “NGO’s” give their “activists” scripts to read in cc meetings 😂

[@fordfairlane662dr]

Can't cry ràcism because of the scorpions ....they were just doing the job they were trained for!

[@vickytaylor5464]

Wasn't the scorpions suppose to protect the neighborhood and help serve and protect them from themselves. Enough already killing their own race of people.

[@mrfickdich2]

Fire CJ

[@taurus66]

Police cam what’s the use the camera has volume and off and on button come on man city council members are part of the problem.

[@abrahama7921]

Most of the comments below are of mocking the situation of the death of this young man and I bet they are of officers too or their families or friends

[@lavetteedmond6750]

WHY didn’t No One ….. Stand up to (cj) and tell her that this was her Fault…..Fire CJ ALSO

[@lavetteedmond6750]

They were all clapping for Nothing…. these people will not ever change and the laws will never be followed,,,, how do I know this,,,, because the police is breaking there own law everyday….

[@187TACT]

THANK YOU, NO ONE SEEMS TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT WAS HER WHO PUT THAT SCORPION UNIT TOGETHER, AND THE MAYOR IS SOME WHAT TO BLAME AS WELL, HIM PUTTING POWER IN CORRUPT HANDS WHICH STARTED FROM HAVING A CORRUPT MIND. CORRUPT + CORRUPT = CORRUPTION. SHE GAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO HER SCORPION GANG UNIT AND ALL THEY WHERE DOING WAS FOLLOWING WHAT THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO DO. OTHERWISE THE OFFICERS WOULDN'T HAVE NEVER BEHAVED LIKE THEY WERE BEHAVING THAT NIGHT. JUSTICE FOR TYREE NICHOLS AND MAY ALL 6 OFFICERS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING TYREE'S CAR CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP, PLACED IN PARK AND HIS CAR DOOR OPENED TO WHERE IT ENDED. ALL OFFICERS THAT APPROACH TYREE CAR, ALL OFFICERS WHO LAID HANDS ON TYREE AND ALL THAT USED A WEAPON, YET ALL HAD NO PROBABLE CAUSE TO BEGIN WITH.

[@jlmoss5154]

Lavette Edmond Agreed. I believe that collective efforts for her resignation are certainly being discussed BEHIND closed doors and clearly, WITHOUT her knowledge…

[@gertrudebuck366]

THE POLICE FORCE NEEDS TO BE THOROUGHLY TRANSPARENT! NO UNMARKED CARS! NO EXCESSIVE FORCE WITHOUT REAL CAUSE! NO STOPPING NOR FRISKING WITHOUT REAL CAUSE!

[@joanisehughes8843]

#JusticeForTyreNichols! John 14:1

[@mokanemalone]

Quoting scripture won't save you. But a doer of the word and an obedient servant and faith in Christ and works and salvation in Christ is what saves a person. So quote all the scriptures u want ur only gonna stay stuck.

[@henryhankwesson7914]

The pigs are wrong that's it

[@marystillstanding5241]

The first thing they should do is fire that chief of police

[@royhoco5748]

this is a good beginning but much more needs to be done nationwide

[@r.pres.4121]

It is time to demilitarize the police and abolish qualified immunity

[@WilliamParson-uv6sj]

I don't think so I don't trust the politics

[@inventorylady53]

What about all the crime the citizen's of Memphis commit. Did anyone address what the city plans to do about that.

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

Most likely not. We still haven't gotten full justice for Kim Groves down here in The State of Louisiana (New Orleans). She was a targeted "hit" by Len Davis and NOPD law enforcement and she was an outstanding mother to her own children and the entire community.

[@kimwhite6784]

Is it the citizens?

[@GENXJOPLIN]

How fucking dense are you

[@dwaynematteos5749]

The clown who said ''We need these special units for our safety". Spoken like a true White man.

[@gloriaclayton2477]

Memphis police department care less about what they are saying.

[@DeniseVenise]

Well they need to do wat they gots do because they didn't need to do that man tha way they did him

[@kimwhite6784]

I still don't see any reason to use unmarked cars.

[@pointingitout5624]

I find it to be selective outrage

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

Apparently so, but it didn't funnel down here on the Bayou of Louisiana. They don't come down here and help us during hurricane season.

[@Sochi314]

Selective outrage by whom?

[@joebigguybiden]

@@Sochi314 name one white person who’s been killed by the police in the last 5 years. Without Google I doubt you could. Yet we know the name of EVERY black American killed by police!!! Ever wonder why? Keep feeding into their agenda, it’s exactly what they want!!!

[@michaelorosz272]

remove all police from this city and let them police themselves.

[@Beatlearl]

I wonder how many of them actually get out to vote when it's election time?.🇺🇸🤔

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

As many as they can allow in "these days of perilous times".

[@joebigguybiden]

They “vote”, whether they fill in the “ballot” and mail it themselves is a different question 😂😂

[@Beatlearl]

@@joebigguybiden You have to be able to read in order to fill out a ballot.🇺🇸🤔

[@xyPERSON]

@@Beatlearl I cannot begin to tell you how ignorant your comment is.

[@bootsierobicheaux7124]

Where is Ella Goodie?!!!

[@thomashood8549]

Most of them complaining have criminal records themselves 😃 Mpd still gonna pull y'all over and will handle you accordingly if you decide to resist or not comply 😃👮🇺🇸As far as unmarked cars, they will still use them,just in a different way.