Summary: <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/28/timeline-tyre-nichols-police-beating-video/"><span>On January 7,</span></a><span> </span><span>Memphis Police officers pepper sprayed and brutally beat photographer and avid skateboarder Tyre Nichols. Nichols complained of shortness of breath, and </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/us/tyre-nichols-timeline-investigation/index.html"><span>waited 22 minutes</span></a><span> before an ambulance arrived to transport him – in critical condition – to a local hospital. </span><span>He died on January 10.</span></p> <p><span>Memphis police chief Ceralyn Davis called the beating of Nichols a<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151621971/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-chief"><span>“failure of basic humanity.”</span></a><span> This brutal killing has renewed public discussions of police abolition.</span></p> <p><span>We talk with Professor Christian Davenport,<span> </span>professor of political science at The University of Michigan and author of <em><span>State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace.</span></em></span></p> <p><span>To hear our deep dive on <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/deep-dive-police-abolition">police abolition</a>, you can listen here.</span></p>
