Washington. The fatal beating that five police officers inflicted on the young black man Tyron Nichols revived the demands of protesters and members of Congress for a culture change in the US Police, accused of using force disproportionately against the community black.
After the videos of the beating of Nichols were published last Friday, notable figures in American politics, including former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), have called for changes in the way in which the different police forces of the country They patrol the streets.
There have also been protests in some cities, although their size has been much smaller than at other times, such as the death of African-Americans George Floyd in 2020 and Michael Brown in 2014, cases that shook the country and sparked days of continuous demonstrations.
Those deaths, however, did not lead to significant police reforms either, and this Sunday Nichols’ family attorney, Ben Crump, asked himself in an interview on CNN: “How many of these tragedies do we have to see on video before they happen? United States recognize that it has a problem?
