BREAKING: 5 former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers are in custody in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols, jail records show.
Nichols had been pulled over in the Memphis' Hickory Hill neighborhood for alleged reckless driving, officials said. A"confrontation" followed, the department said at the time, and officers pursued Nichols when he fled on foot. While trying to take him into custody, there was another confrontation and Nichols complained of having shortness of breath, the department said.
A photo provided by his stepfather showed a hospitalized Nichols with blood on his face and what appeared to be a swollen eye. Nichols' family and their attorneys, Benjamin Crump and Antonio Romanucci, have viewed the body-camera footage of the encounter, though that video has not been made public yet.
Romanucci described it as an “unadulterated, unabashed, nonstop beating” for three minutes, saying Nichols was allegedly treated like a"human piñata" by the officers. Five Memphis police officers were fired in connection with a traffic stop that led to the death of Tyre Nichols. Top row, from left, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Emmitt Martin III. Bottom row, Desmond Mills, Jr., and Justin Smith.Family attorneys have compared the footage to “the Rodney King video,” referring to the 1991 bystander video of
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