The brutal footage released Friday echoed the disparity between what police often initially report and what actually happens.
It echoes other cases, including that of George Floyd, in which initial police reports painted a sanitized picture of a violent or fatal interaction. At the same time, the police investigation that came after that first Memphis report moved so swiftly that experts have pointed to it as an unusually capable response to officer brutality.
Still, the first narrative often sticks, said Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project. The initial framing of an inaccurate narrative by police is a tactic often seen after brutality by officers, she said; though parts of Memphis’s response were fast and transparent, she said she would not look to it “as a model.”
In the first altercation shown in the videos, multiple officers shout at Nichols to lie down, though he is already
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