Reverend Al Sharpton condemned the five Black police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this month.

“Did you think that you would hide behind your Blackness? I want to say it loud and clear that we will fight Black cops, white cops, any color cops that commit crimes against us,” Rev. Sharpton said Saturday at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem. 

Many gathered for the rally, which is hosted weekly.

“You tried to say he shouldn’t have run. You don’t beat a man to death. An unarmed man that, you know, was no threat to you. There’s no excuse for what happened to this young man,” Rev. Sharpton said.

The footage, which was released Friday night, showed the 29-year-old victim brutally beaten. It’s an incident of police brutality that many at the NAN rally said was especially devastating.

“This is hurtful to us as a community and us as a people,” said Winston Gilchrist, who was attending the rally.

“What I don’t understand is why black officers would do that to another black person. I don’t get it,” said David Lowry, another attendee.

Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, was present to hear Rev. Sharpton speak.

She told NY1 this latest case of police brutality triggered powerful and painful memories of her brother, who died back in 2014 after being put in a deadly chokehold by an NYPD officer on Staten Island.

“We’re not anti-police, we’re anti bad police,” said Garner. “This act that sets the precedence of what we need to see in communities going forward. As Reverend Sharpton said, 19 days and we got an indictment, I waited five years. So we need swift justice in all cases of police brutality.”

Garner and Rev. Sharpton are calling on lawmakers to pass legislation that would make officers more accountable for misconduct. 

Rev. Sharpton said legislation like the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act might have prevented Nichols’ death if the law existed.

“It might have made some of these police think twice. This U.S. Senate and this Congress needs to deal with these civil rights issues of these times. And that is the George Floyd Bill and the Policing Act,” said Reverend Sharpton.

Rev. Sharpton is set to give the eulogy at the funeral for Nichols on Wednesday.