First Take discusses Memphis police releasing footage of officers beating Tyre Nichols to death

if you somehow have a heart, if you have someone you care about, someone you love, you realize how heinous and evil this act was, as described by Stephen A and it is exactly what we all saw and you mentioned the names of the five

police

officers

who took the life of Tyree Nichols I think you missed some words, you missed murderers because that's what they are and you miss cowards. Well, two, I accept that someone will be restrained and continue

beating

them to

death

. I don't think we've ever put that into words or you can even put into words the amount of hate you have, having the amount of malicious and hurtful murderous intent that you have to have,

beating

a human to

death

, being so premeditated, being so calculated in your evil that does not cover the body Cam that you shout things that you know are not true because you are setting up your false reports, you are setting up your opportunities to do what you want because you have a badge and all the time when we have people who press against the lives of Black people matter and we have to explain to them that no, we are not saying that other lives don't matter, we are saying that black lives matter too because they matter to us now you can't even shout that we care because these five cowards look like Tyree Nichols these five cowards left Holmes they left neighborhoods they left houses that uh um they left projects where people look like them and they just don't give a damn because whatever the pollution the poison is whatever the rhetoric that says that someone who looks like Tyree Nichols and Tyree Nichols himself is not worth living, they fed on that and now it wasn't about black, it wasn't about white, it wasn't about Brown, it was about It wasn't about yellow, it was about of blue and the way blue sees black, so now it's another funeral, Stephen A, and it's another time where we have to go on TV and support John Moran while John Morant tries to be a voice for the people. that they don't have voices but when will be the next time to do it cannot be when will be the last time because we are not going to have it the last time when will be the next time and when We will start to care that people tell us to trust the boys in blue let's trust the women in blue.

Two who trust the insignia. I'll finish this. They were part of a task force called Scorpion Street Crime Operations to restore. peace in our neighborhoods, so the

police

officers

and the law enforcement authorities did what they thought was best, which was to put these five brothers who should understand these communities and understand the people in them enough to protect them in this working group and instead, do this now. Tell me when you can get to a point where you can trust them for Tyree Nichols and his family for what they had to go through, what they have to suffer through.

It's incomprehensible and the pain has to be immeasurable and it's not right, man, it's not right. and you have said it eloquently and it speaks the truth and it pains you to even sit here listening to you talk about it and and it is a blue thing because we have addressed it and we continue to talk about it. It's great to see everyone come out and it's great to see John Moran in these modern athletes talk, but man, aren't we tired of seeing it? You know, and what he thinks, what kills me, Ryan, when you sit here and talk about how. you get this brace and you know someone is going to see it, nothing's going to happen, host, George Floyd, we're not going to have cameras on no matter what and you still

take

him this distance, there's got to be cameras on, so that tells you that there is some kind of lack of care and that hurts and I know we keep saying it's not a black and white thing, you never want to see anyone get hit, no one get hit like that, but it hurts. a little more these are black men doing it, it hurts, man.

I'm tired of seeing black men fight black men, I mean, and it's kind of blue, but we've seen it quite a bit this year, since Will Smith. and Chris Rock stuff, I'm just tired of watching us do it, we have enough fighting to have our right, in fact, get the right background perspective in our right place, we can't fight each other like this, please just stop that ,

first

of all, that's hard for me and I give it to you, Stephen. I'm sure you're mentioning how you are. So blatant that they covered the cameras, leaked things that weren't going to happen and were just going to leave.

They live their life, this isn't the

first

time, it can't be the first time they've prepared a documented case, but they were just going to go home and do it again. Let me close by saying just a few things. real quick number one um I really appreciate Michael Irvin what you said because as we sit here and debate sports and go against each other and all that other stuff, the one thing no one can deny is that when they see us on the air talking to each other we love each other I love you all you love me we love Molly we are family we have a great time having fun and having fun all having fun making people laugh while we sit there and spit out our sports knowledge and stuff because what you're talking about is the importance of getting along and being civil and decent to each other and when we see three, oh, sorry, five black police officers.

To do that to anyone is atrocious, but to do that to a 150 pound unarmed child, instead of a 29 year old, father of a four year old, 100 feet from his house, that's why he was screaming for his mother because she was three doors away. his house when he did that it just hurts, there's no doubt about it, I don't know about the rest of you, but I know I shed a tear because I watched all 66 minutes.