When Blue trumps Black: Why having Black police officers did not matter for Tyre Nichols

On Jan. 7, what should have been a “routine” traffic stop culminated in the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols involving five Black Memphis, Tennessee police officers.

Attorneys for Nichols’ family indicated the “savage,” three-minute beating that resulted in the 29-year-old Black man’s death…

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Rev. Joel A. Bowman, Sr. Is a pastor, speaker, writer, mental health clinician, and Christian thinker who has been quoted in the Washington Post, USA TODAY, Associated Press, Baptist Press and The Christian Post. His recent work has focused on racism, racial trauma and Christian nationalism.

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