Tyre Nichols: five ex-police officers face murder charges over motorist’s death

Photograph: Adrian Sainz/APMemphis authorities said they would release video of the incident. The public has not yet seen the footage, but family members and their attorneys have. During the press conference on Thursday afternoon, officials indicated that the footage would be released after 6pm local time on Friday.

“Tyre was brutalized by Memphis police, much like how Rodney King was beaten more than 30 years ago – but unlike Rodney, Tyre lost his life from this violent attack,” the civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is on the family legal team, said after seeing the video. A day before charges were announced, the city’s police chief, CJ Davis, denounced the fatal encounter as “heinous, reckless and inhumane”.video published on YouTube“This is not just a professional failing. This is a failing of basic humanity toward another individual … and in the vein of transparency when the video is released in the coming days, you will see this for yourselves.”

Nichols’s mother, RowVaughn Wells, told the Post her son was a “gentle soul”. Nichols, who had a four-year-old son, worked for the shipping giant FedEx. Every night, during his evening meal break, he would return to Wells’s home. His hobbies included taking photos of sunsets and skateboarding, the New York Times reported. He had a tattoo of his mother’s name on his arm.

They never come down hard on cops like this. I wonder why.

The police are so racist... No wait?

Where are you now BLMLA or who ever? Hypercritical

I doubt BLM will be interested in this story for some reason? No looting “peaceful protest” for this one?🤔?🤐

Come on guardian readers where is your woke outrage

they really dont like broken tail lights over there and they will break your tail light to prove it , licence and rego , pop pop pop ,woops sorry i thought he was going for a gun

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