Will the Brutal Killing of Tyre Nichols Make Congress Act on Police Reform?
Good morning from the Hive newsroom. With Americans still grieving the tragic death of Tyre Nichols, Eric Lutz asks whether national outrage around the tragedy will light a fire under Congress to pass long-awaited police reform. “There’s a sense that the Nichols killing could lead to some legislation,” he writes, but it’s hard to imagine that Congress “will be able to change the culture around policing in America—especially when one party insists that tragedies like Memphis are the product of unstoppable ‘evil’ rather than a system in need of sweeping change.”
Elsewhere, the 2024 Republican primary race is coming into focus with a new potential presidential bid from Donald Trump’s former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, Caleb Ecarma reports. Still, the former president’s most formidable foe is almost sure to be Ron DeSantis, who, as Bess Levin observes, is reportedly mulling major staffing hires for his potential campaign.
On the media front, Charlotte Klein scoops up CNN’s foray into comedy, with Bill Maher officially set to host one of the network’s prime-time slots. Plus, Levin has the latest on the Manhattan DA’s probe into the hush money payments Trump made to Stormy Daniels. Thanks for reading.
