President Joe Biden has offered a blunt assessment of graphic videos released by the Memphis, Tennessee, police depicting the brutal, repeated beating of a black man pulled over by five black officers.
“Like so many, I was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols’s death,” Biden wrote Friday. “It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that black and brown Americans experience every single day.”
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Biden renewed his calls for peaceful protests, adding that “the footage that was released this evening will leave people justifiably outraged.”
“Those who seek justice should not resort to violence or destruction,” he wrote. “Violence is never acceptable; it is illegal and destructive. I join Mr. Nichols’s family in calling for peaceful protest.”
Biden shared the same message with reporters on the White House South Lawn before flying to Camp David and Wilmington, Delaware, for the weekend.
“I spoke with Tyre’s mother and expressed my condolences and told her that I was going to be making the case to the Congress to pass the George Floyd Act,” he said of RowVaughn Wells. “We should get this under control. I can only do so much on the executive order at the federal level.”
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Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, died this month after two violent encounters involving five black former Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop for alleged reckless driving. The five officers all face second-degree murder charges.
