THE Daily ‘The feeling is numbing’: Students grapple with police violence toward Black community

JORDAN ISBELL thedmnews@gmail.com

On Jan. 27, surveillance footage was released to the public in which Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was severely beaten and injured by five Black police officers from the Memphis Police Department in Memphis. The attack occurred on Jan. 7, and he died three days later due to his injuries.

Public outrage intensified an already tenuous relationship between the police community and citizens.

Senior Johnathan Sullivan, a computer science major, described his feelings on the killing of Nichols as a numbness.

“The feeling is numbing, scary and utterly defeating. Another Black man murdered by

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