Take Notice with Tomas!

Hosted by Tomás G Robinson

“Zippy D’oh in D Minor” song intro/outro Written, Produced, Arranged and Performed by Tomás

February 19, 2023

Within the last year there have been an increasing number of reports of police brutality. This year alone, there was one incident that overshadowed most of the reports. A young black man was stopped in a regular traffic stop. Pretty normal situation. Police stop citizens in traffic stops hundreds of times a day. On this stop it was nothing close to normal.

Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was stopped by the police, a basic traffic stop. By the end of the ordeal, the young man could be heard yelling for his mother as five Memphis police officers beat him, hit him with batons, kicked him (and continued to do so after his hands were cuffed). He would finally be taken by ambulance after suffering his injuries for 25 minutes and would die of his injuries three days later. The five officers (all Black) would be arrested, brought up on murder charges, and terminated from their jobs as policemen.

Since then, there have been demonstrations in most major cities with vast amounts protestors attending. Cities like New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, among other cities across the nation, have all scheduled city sanctioned protests and are rallying for people to stand up to this situation.

In Los Angeles there was a day set aside for protesting with complete cooperation from the police. But after looking closer to the notice, while it had a date of May 4, 2023, on the caption for the link, the notice is from 2007, for a protest that took place then. So, why is it at the top of a search on Google for police brutality?

As a result of Tyre Nichol’s beating death, the spotlight has, once again, brought back to light the fact that this is still taking place. It’s in your face, and it’s in the news. The protestors have been heard chanting, “We deserve answers more than excuses, and we deserve them now!”

I repeat... February 19, 2023

Within the last year there have been an increasing number of reports of police brutality. This year alone, there was one incident that overshadowed most of the reports. A young black man was stopped in a regular traffic stop. Pretty normal situation. Police stop citizens in traffic stops hundreds of times a day. On this stop it was nothing close to normal.

Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was stopped by the police, a basic traffic stop. By the end of the ordeal, the young man could be heard yelling for his mother as five Memphis police officers beat him, hit him with batons, kicked him (and continued to do so after his hands were cuffed). He would finally be taken by ambulance after suffering his injuries for 25 minutes and would die of his injuries three days later. The five officers (all Black) would be arrested, brought up on murder charges, and terminated from their jobs as policemen.

Since then, there have been demonstrations in most major cities with vast amounts protestors attending. Cities like New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, among other cities across the nation, have all scheduled city sanctioned protests and are rallying for people to stand up to this situation.

In Los Angeles there was a day set aside for protesting with complete cooperation from the police. But after looking closer to the notice, while it had a date of May 4, 2023, on the caption for the link, the notice is from 2007, for a protest that took place then. So, why is it at the top of a search on Google for police brutality?

As a result of Tyre Nichol’s beating death, the spotlight has, once again, brought back to light the fact that this is still taking place. It’s in your face, and it’s in the news. The protestors have been heard chanting, “We deserve answers more than excuses, and we deserve them now!”