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    Commentary: How can we get justice for Tyre Nichols and other victims of police brutality?

    by Joanna Schwartz, Los Angeles Times Jan 31, 2023 3 minutes
    Body-camera footage of the arrest of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis. Floyd was killed during the encounter. In the wake of the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers this month, calls for ending qualified immunity for police have grown.

    On Jan. 7, Memphis police officers stopped 29-year-old Tyre Nichols for a traffic violation and then beat him so viciously that he was hospitalized and died three days later.

    Memphis, Tennessee, Police Chief Cerelyn Davis called the beating “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” and fired the five officers involved. On Thursday, the district attorney announced that the officers had been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Late Friday, the city released video footage of the horrific beating.

    Less than three years after George Floyd was

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