California skate park named after Tyre Nichols, motorist fatally beaten in police traffic stop

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Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop.

, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop.

An avid skateboarder, Nichols spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento. City officials and others held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated skate park now named for Nichols. Nichols moved to Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and lived there with his mother and stepfather. He enjoyed photography — especially taking photos of landscapes and sunsets."Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people," Nichols wrote onOn the night of Jan. 7, Memphis police pulled over Nichols on his way home from taking pictures of the sky.

 

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