Rev Al Sharpton just devoted a good part of his eulogy to condemning the actions of the black officers who were seen beating Tyre Nichols, an encounter that ultimately led to his death.
The incident has been a particularly difficult pill to swallow among black police officers across the country - who I've been speaking to all day.
Historically, with low representation from African Americans among US police departments, violence toward unarmed black men has come at the hands of white police officers.
Sharpton said that half a century ago, Martin Luther King Jr came to Memphis to fight to get black men represented in the police force.
"There's nothing more insulting an offensive... than beating a brother to death", he says.
Black police officers I spoke to feel it is their duty to restore justice and fair treatment where they say historically it has been deprived.
"This is the behaviour we saw from the Ku Klux Klan," said retired New Jersey police sergeant De Lancy Davis. "It's shameful, inhumane and a poor representation."
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