Memphis beating video puts spotlight on first police account

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Initially, in a statement released the day after the incident, Memphis police used vague language to describe the attack and said nothing to suggest the officers had acted with the callousness and violence captured on bodycam video.

Activists took to the streets of L.A. to protest after the release of video showing the beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis officers.

In its first comment on the arrest the night of Jan. 7 of Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, by members of the city police's so-called Scorpion unit, the department said vaguely that the officers involved had been "routinely relieved of duty" during an investigation and an outside agency had been brought in.

Asked about that initial statement, Memphis police spokeswoman Maj. Karen Rudolph on Saturday said only that like "all information that is released, it is preliminary." Civil rights lawyer Michael Avery, a founder of the National Police Accountability Project, said police and elected officials can have a stake in downplaying officers' misconduct.

 

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