Sanford: Family of Tyre Nichols deserves justice for a fun-loving son
Attorney Ben Crump (middle) leads RowVaughn Wells, (right) mother of Tyre Nichols into a press conference on Monday, Jan. 23, after they watched the video of her son’s encounter with Memphis police officers during traffic stop that led to his death. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
Memphians, who already feel beleaguered by violent crime that at times seems out of control, must now come to grips with the fact that elements within the police department — however small — are partakers of criminal violence themselves.
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