No, White Supremacy Isn’t to Blame for Tyre Nichols’s Death

Q: What do you call it when five black cops brutally beat a black man to death, in violation of their oaths, their duties, and all respect for the sanctity of human life?
A: White supremacy.
Alas, I am not kidding. In a piece for CNN on Friday, the political commentator Van Jones argued that the killing of Tyre Nichols showed “it’s time to move to a more nuanced discussion of the way police violence endangers Black lives,” and, in particular, time to comprehend that “one of the sad facts...