One of the five Memphis police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols allegedly participated in the beating of an inmate eight years ago, according to a 2016 lawsuit.
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell and Townhall.com senior writer Julio Rosas discuss protests in Memphis after the release of Tyre Nichols footage on ‘Fox News @ Night.’allegedly beat up an inmate nearly eight years ago, according to a lawsuit filed by the victim.
Sledge filed the lawsuit in 2016, claiming two officers punched him in the face during a search for a prohibited cellphone. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for Western Tennessee, he said that a third guard slammed him face-first into a sink. Sledge, now living in a Memphis halfway house, said he blacked out and woke up on a bed the next day with blood coming out of his ear after the officers had taken him to the prison's medical infirmary.He noted that he received an apology from the prison warden but heard nothing from Haley.
Nichols, 29, was stopped by police on Jan. 7 for alleged"reckless driving." Officers said a"confrontation occurred" during the traffic stop, leading to Nichols' attempt to flee. Officers eventually caught up with him by car, exited their vehicles and began to beat him, leaving him complaining about having shortness of breath. He was transported to the hospital in critical condition and died on Jan. 10.
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