Its the time to clarify who are responsible for the death of Mr. Tyre Nichols. The Memphinans need to find out with whom the responsibility lies. We wish to apportion blame. We must address or deal with the issue of where the responsibility for the incident lies and who are to blame for the incident in order not to repeat such a tragedy.
There are two kinds of accountabilities in the case of the death of Mr. Tyre Nichols. One is the legal accountability for his death. And the other is the political accountability which was connected with, or which became inextricably bound up with his death.
First, the legal responsibility should be pursued and established. The five former Memphis Police officers are Mr. Tadarrius Bean, Mr. Demetrius Haley, Mr. Emmitt Martin III, Mr. Desmond Mills Jr., and Mr. Justin Smith. Those officers all were fired Jan. 20, 2023 following the death of Mr. Nichols.
And they were charged Thursday with second-degree murder. The legal team of Mr. Nichols’ case can deal with the legal process. Those five officers are such directly claimed responsibility in terms of the legal case of Mr. Nichols.
Second, the political responsibility should be pursued and found out. Who has the political accountability for the death of Mr. Nichols? Is President of the United States, Joe Biden, accountable for the death? Or should Governor of the State of Tennessee, Bill Lee, be accountable for the death?
The political accountability for the death should lie with the Mayor of the City of Memphis. He should be responsible for the political accountability because the City of Memphis has the administrative jurisdiction over the Memphis Police Department.
The Mayor, Mr. Jim Strickland is notorious for his crafty or sneaky talent of escaping or eluding the long arm of the political responsibility whenever these kinds of incidents happened around Memphis, Tennessee.
This case is not unclear who’s responsible for the incident. We can locate the responsibility. Justice should be found and established in terms of the case of Mr. Nichols. There are two kinds of justice in this case. One is the legal justice, and the other is the political one.
Both the judicial justice and the political one should be pursued. Mr. Strickland is the one who has the political accountability for the case. Someone may want to get a way out of here in this situation. He is a man of taking advantage of loopholes in the political accountability.
But the Memphians, and the local constituents and taxpayers, need to watch or monitor such desperate writher. Mr. Strickland is a man of performing POLITICAL CIRCUS.
His performance is, however, quite BORING.
The Editorial of the Memphis Times
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Published: January 27, 2023