IT'S NOT THE GUNS, OR RACE, IT'S THE VIOLENCE What happened to Tyre Nichols is horrific. If you haven't watched the video I think you should, although it is very, very hard to watch. You can see it here. The beating is shown best at the 51 minute mark and it's horrible. Four cops beating a man with handcuffs on like it's a sport. I hate to say it like this but thankfully these cops were black, or we'd have another round of "this is white supremacy" though the issue to me is our culture of violence. Even Tyre's mother said she "hates" that black men did this. Just the same as it when there is a mass shooting, it's the culture of violence we have created that made these men think it was okay to beat this man to death because they were angry he ran and they had to run after him. It's cops who are steeped in street created violence every day, taking out their frustrations and aggravations on a man who is now dead. When we were in Canada there was a warning on the television about violence before the tv show NCIS and I sort of laughed, but now I'm wondering if we need to be more conscious of what we're consuming in our country. My friend Nick Ferguson is on today at 2 to talk about this entire situation. This is a really good explanation of the charges and legal proceedings around the five former Memphis cops who killed Nichols.