Sharpton warns failure addressing police brutality will lead to deaths

4WardEverUK • 9 February 2023

source: The Mirror

first published: 7 February 2023

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Civil rights veteran Reverend Al Sharpton has warned that police brutality incidents such as the recent killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis officers could happen in the UK without policing reforms.


Father-of-one Tyre, was tasered and brutality beaten to death following a traffic stop on January 7, 2023 and six officers have now been fired with five being charged with his murder.


Now Reverend Al Sharpton who attended the 29-year-old's funeral alongside US Vice-President Kamala Harris says that “systemic racism” and a “culture of policing that produces brutality” needed to be addressed.


He stated that without doing so, tragedies like that of Tyre who died in hospital three days later could happen in Britain.


Reverend Al Sharpton said: “The failure to address systemic racism in UK policing and the culture of policing that produces brutality against our people will only lead to more incidences like the tragedy of Tyre Nichols”.


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