The Reverand Al Sharpton will eulogise Mr Nichols, and another prominent civil rights leader, attorney Ben Crump, will deliver a"call to action" during a funeral at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Mr Nichols' adopted hometown of Memphis.
Relatives of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, two other African Americans whose deaths in 2020 at the hands of police in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, became rallying cries for the Black Lives Matter movement, were also invited to attend. At least four of them had been disciplined in the past,including for using excessive force or failure to respond tocomplaints, according to personnel files released on Tuesday.
Police video of the confrontation released by the city on Friday showed officers dousing Mr Nichols with pepper spray and pummeling him with punches, kicks and baton blows as he cried out for his mother.The footage ends showing Mr Nichols was left handcuffed, bloodied and slumped against the side of a police vehicle for nearly a quarter-hour before receiving medical attention.
Protests stemming from Mr Nichols' death have been peaceful and relatively restrained in Memphis, whose racial history was indelibly marked by the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. during his visit there to support a local garbage workers' strike. Antonio Romanucci, another lawyer for his family, has said Mr Nichols also was a strong supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, saying it was a cause for which he gave his life,"and essentially what that makes him is a martyr."
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Brother Sharpton needs to condemn his fellow brothers for the lynching of that poor boy.
Sharpton is a racist who has made his money off driving division
Sharpton, the quintessential race baiter, has made millions out of hateful divisive rhetoric is ideal to give the eulogy if the purpose is to inflame tensions at a funeral in which emotions are already running high.
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Sharpton is a fraud & nothing more interests him than making money race baiting
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