This Is a Moral Crime [nytimes.com]
By Charles M. Blow, Photo: Andrew Nelles, The New York Times, February 1, 2023 When RowVaughn Wells arrived at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on an icy, gray Wednesday in Memphis, she was there to say goodbye to her son Tyre Nichols. He was dead. Killed. Beaten to death by local police officers while he screamed for her less than 100 yards from her house. There was a phalanx of television crews across the street from the front of the church, and the Secret Service manned the doors.