Memphis released surveillance and body-camera video of the brutal police beating that led to the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.
The city of Memphis on Friday released police surveillance and body-camera video showing the disturbing events of a traffic stop that led to the fatal beating of a Black man, Tyre Nichols.
In an aerial view of the surveillance footage recorded Jan. 10, a group of police officers surround Nichols, 29, for about three minutes. Many times throughout the beating, during which officers used their hands, feet, batons and pepper spray on him, Nichols is heard crying out for his mom. “Expressions of concern when people see this video, we urge that they be peaceful and nonviolent,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland at a DOJ press conference. “That’s what the family has urged, and that of course is what the Justice Department urges as well.”
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis told CNN Friday morning that the video shows “acts that defy humanity” and “a disregard for life” — namely, the officers using what she said was a group-think mentality to exert an “unexplainable” amount of aggression toward Nichols. She added the video is “about the same if not worse” than the graphic video of Los Angeles police officers brutally attacking Rodney King in 1991.
Wray added that all of the FBI’s field offices have been alerted to work closely with their state and local partners, particularly in Memphis, “in the event of something getting out of hand” during protests over the weekend. U.S. Capitol Police have— with bike-rack style security fencing erected overnight — as police departments across the country are also bracing for protests related to the footage.
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