Cops Charged With Murder Of Tyre Nichols Hired After Job Requirements Lowered: Report

Ryan SaavedraJanuary 29, 2023

Some of the officers fired for the murder of Tyre Nicks were hired by the Memphis Police Department, according to reports.

Local media reported that Nichols was killed on January 10, three days following a Memphis police traffic stop. Nichols is black, as are the five ex-police officers that were accused of killing him.

Two counts of official misconduct have been filed against officers Tadarrius Bean and Demetrius Haley and Emmit Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith, according to local media reports. One count each of official oppression and second-degree murder, aggravated attack-act in concert and two counts each of aggravated kidnapping.

The New York Post reported Bean and Haley joined Memphis Police Department as protests related to George Floyd’s passing rocked America.

Bean and Haley’s hiring by the department in August 2020 came two years after the department significantly lowered the education required to join the force.

The lowered standards meant that recruits no longer needed an associate’s degree or 54 college credit hours to join, the report said, and could instead get by with just work experience.

The Post spoke with experts who said that the reduced requirements meant lower standards. “less desirable” The department was bringing on candidates.

Karan Parmar, an official in law enforcement, claimed on LinkedIn that sources inside the department stated that the officers were not employed through the normal hiring process.

“According to a source within the Memphis PD, the 5 charged officers weren’t hired through the usual structured PD hiring process,” Parmar claimed. “City leaders felt the existing process was too strict and kept certain people from getting jobs at the department. City leaders began their own hiring process and then pushed new hires into the agency, bypassing the testing procedures in place at the department. You can read between the lines what that all means.”

“All 5 of the charged officers were hired by the City, and didn’t go through the rigorous PD testing process,” The statement was continued. “This is what quota hiring looks like. Lawsuits and dead innocents. The city should pay (sic) the lawsuits instead of the Police department. This Murder wasn’t created by old school policing or by ‘white supremacy’. This murder was directly facilitated by liberal policy.”

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— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) January 29, 2023