CCA Justice 4 Tyre Nichols

Founder of Community Civil Activists, said they were frustrated after hearing the news about Nichols. CCA lead in the vigils held for George Floyd in Concord back in 2020. That was also part of the reason they founded CCA.

But in the time since then, they say change in policing across the nation has been extremely slow.

"I don't believe they have had a systematic change over night, especially with what we saw last night," they said.

As for policing in Cabarrus County, their emotions are a mix of hope for the local police but doubt from the events happening in the nation.

"I feel we have a strong hope, and we want to believe that they will protect us. But time and time again we have been shown that we don't have that priviledge," he said. "The community wants to have a safe enviornment and to be protected by police, not terrified."