Same story on the side of the victim’s father-in-law, Rodney Wells. According to him, “an officer hit it like it was a soccer ball, repeatedly”. “The police have this little stick, this metal thing that they pull out. I saw them pull this out and start hitting my son with it”, he complains. Tyre Nichols’ mother accuses law enforcement of having “reduced (his son) to a pulp”. “Where did their humanity go? They beat my son like a pinata”she chokes, pointing out that he had “bruises everywhere and (that) his head was swollen like a watermelon”.
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said nothing else. “I was in law enforcement during the Rodney King incident and it sounds a lot like that type of behavior…kind of groupthink. I would say it’s pretty much the same , if not worse”she warns in the columns of The Guardian.