Memphis police disband unit that beat Tyre Nichols

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The Memphis police chief on Saturday disbanded the city's so-called Scorpion unit after some of its officers beat to death Tyre Nichols, reversing an earlier statement that she would keep the unit intact.

. They face up to 60 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.

“Nobody tried to stop anything. They have a duty to intervene, a duty to render care,” Brenda Goss Andrews, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, said in an interview after viewing the video. Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, said the family would “continue to seek justice" and those who failed to render aid are “just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.”Cities nationwide had braced for demonstrations after the video emerged, but protests were scattered and nonviolent. Several dozen demonstrators in Memphis blocked the Interstate 55 bridge that carries traffic over the Mississippi River toward Arkansas.

Davis acknowledged that the police department has a supervisor shortage and said the lack of a supervisor in the arrest was a “major problem." City officials have pledged to provide more of them. The officers beat him with a baton, and kick and punch him. The attack continues even after he collapses.During the wait for an ambulance, officers joke and air grievances. They complain that a handheld radio was ruined, that someone lost a flashlight, that multiple officers were caught in the pepper spray used against Nichols.

 

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