On Monday, the family of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days after a traffic stop involving Memphis Police, saw the footage of the arrest for the first time.
in Memphis, the family stood alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump and his legal team and described what they saw in the video. Crump says Nichols' mother couldn't get through the first minute before getting emotional over the death of her youngest son.
Crump’s co-counsel describes Nichols as defenseless in the video. “He was a pinata to those police officers, it was an unadulterated, unabashed nonstop beating of this young boy for three minutes,” lawyer Antonio Romanucci said during the press conference. "After a thorough review of the circumstances surrounding this incident, we have determined that five Memphis Police Department officers violated multiple department policies, including excessive use of force, duty to intervene, and duty to render aid," Chief Cerelyn Davis, Memphis Police Department,Crump acknowledged that the officers involved were Black, but said that it’s “not the race of police officers that is the determining factor of the excessive force that will be exerted, it...
Eventually, Nichols was apprehended, and shortly after he complained of “shortness of breath” and an ambulance was called to the scene.
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