How to Honor Tyre Nichols

A Lesson from the Black Lives Matter movement

Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by Memphis police for an alleged traffic violation in January. He was 29. There is video of the beating, which I refuse to watch or link to in this space.

Instead, I want to tell you about something I learned from the Black Lives Matter movement in the months after George Floyd’s murder.

Tyre Nichols, in a photo provided by his family. He loved photography. “My vision is to bring my viewers deep into what I am seeing through my eye and out through my lens,” Nichols wrote. “People have a story to tell, why not capture it.”