NYPD Officers Restrain Man Smashing Patrol Car Windshield During Protest for Tyre Nichols
A man climbed onto a patrol car in New York City’s Time Square and smashed the windshield during a protest on on Friday, January 27, following the release of bodycam footage showing Memphis Police beating Tyre Nichols to death.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported that 29-year-old Nichols died in the hospital on January 10 after a physical altercation with police on January 7. The five officers who “caused Nichols’ injuries” were charged with second-degree murder on Thursday.
Demonstrators took to the streets after the body camera footage showing the violent altercation was released to the public on Friday.
Video posted by @datainput on Friday shows officers swarming a man as he smashed a police car windshield in Times Square.
Local news outlets reported that the man “was arrested for criminal mischief to a police vehicle” while “two other people were also arrested during the protests but it was unclear what for.” Credit: @datainput via Storyful
Video transcript
- --people!
- (CHANTING) What is injustice?
- Stop snitching! Stop snitching!
- --is injustice!
- And that's--
- Whoo!
- Whoa!
- Oh!
- You're gonna tell-- (CHANTING) Everywhere we go!
- Stop the cameras! No cameras!
- (CHANTING) People wanna know!
- --out of the way.
- Yo! Get out of here before--
- (CHANTING) Oooh-yah!
- (CHANTING) Oooh-yah!
- C'mon, Ma'am! Ma'am!
- (CHANTING) I was [INAUDIBLE]!
- (CHANTING) Ooh-yeah.
- (CHANTING) We are the people!
[DOG BARKING]
- (CHANTING) We are the people!
- Oh!
[DOG BARKING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- No!
- No! No!
- Easy! Easy! Easy! Easy!
- Whoa, whoa!
- Easy! Easy! Easy! Easy!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- Easy! Easy!
- Stop!
- You're hurting me! Who's grabbing me? Take it easy!
POLICE: Back up!
- Take it easy!
POLICE: Back up!
- Take it eas--
- (POLICE RADIO) Come in for Georgia.
- Take it easy!
- Back up!
- Take it easy!
- Back up!
- Take it eaasy! Take it easy!
POLICE: Back up! Back up! Back up!
- Let's get this stuff outta here.
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- That's the line!
- Back up!
- Better back up!
- Back up!
- Back up!
- Back up!
- No! You back up!
- I've got two guys. One [INAUDIBLE] without [INAUDIBLE].
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- Guys! Just stir it! Just split up!
- Back up! Back up! Back up!
- You guys!
- Back up!
- Take it easy!
- Back up!
- You can try! You can fucking try!
- (SHOUTING) --me!
- Woah!
- You're breaking my arm!
- Hey! Get away from her!
- Go, go, go!
- Get away from her! Get off of--
- Woah! You're breaking my arm!
- Hey! Get away from her!
- Go, go, go!
- Get away from her! Get off of her!
- Back up!
- We're on [INAUDIBLE].
- Take it easy!
- Yo! Help them!
- Who was that?
- You're hurting them!
- What is that?
- You're hurting them! You're hurting them!
- Back up!
- I'm trying to.
- Whoa!
- Yo! What ha-- [INAUDIBLE] Yo!
- Take it easy.
- You're gonna pay!
- Move out of the way. Everybody's gotta back up!
- Let's go!
- Huh! They pushed me. I didn't push.
- --up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! That's it, back up.
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- Let them go!
- Let them go!
- Let them go!
- Let them go!
- Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!
- Rally! Rally! Rally!
- --can't stand up.
- Rally!
- Now lift up your hands.
- Rally!
- Rally!
- Rally! Do it! [INAUDIBLE] me.
- Who is that?
- Get up on that.
- I'm about that mad.
- OK. Over here.
- Please! I'm about [INAUDIBLE].
- Are you OK?
- No fucking-- I'm not fucking fine.
- We'll go over here. We're gonna go over here sir, all right? Back up.
- Bitch!
- Yo. Move.
- Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!
- He said we gotta go to the side. Move your sign. Move your sign.
[CROWD SHOUTING]
- Oh!
- Move!
- Look at her! Look at her!
- Move! Move! Move!
- Look-- Everybody else go, go, go, go! Get our stuff.
- --give them our information. Go get our information. Get our information. Yo let's go, let's go.
- Back up. Back up.
- You got the camera on?
- Huh? Come on.
- Let's go!
- Let's go, y'all! Let's go, y'all!
- You guys-- sidewalks, sidewalks-- keep moving! Sidewalk! Sidewalk! Gotta get on the sidewalk!
- Move me!
- Bruh.
[CROWD SHOUTING]