Because the five cops (all black) wouldn’t control their savagery. They acted like wolves mauling a lamb.
But this tragedy, I’m presuming, also had something to do, probably, with Nichols not deferring to their authority. Cops (doesn’t matter what ethnicity) want you to lower your voice, bow your head and mildly submit to their power, and if you don’t do that you’re asking for it.
How many victims (whites included) have died because they refused to use their brains and play it smart?
Nichols ran from the scene, protested his innocence, accused them of needless brutality — and in the last two instances was obviously in the right. Didn’t matter.
Journalists-columnists, I realize, are not allowed to say this. I should know, having said this two or three times before and every time having been accused of gross insensitivity and even racism. Because only an insensitive ayehole would say to a would-be victim of police brutality, “Are you completely lacking in comprehension? Don’t give these animals a reason.”