Five officers fired last week from the Memphis Police Department face murder and other charges in the death earlier this month of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, jail records show.
Funeral arrangements announced for Tyre NicholsNichols is expected to be laid to rest on Wednesday, Feb. 1, according toThe Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis is where the funeral is expected to take place at 10:30 a.
m. CT , according to a news release obtained byThe service is expected to be live-streamed on the church’s Facebook and YouTube pages.Memphis Fire Department gets access to police videoOfficials with the Memphis Fire Department said in a statement Friday that they got access to police video of the Jan. 7 encounter between officers and Nichols.that two members of the department have been placed on administrative leave “pending the outcome of the investigation.”Family members have described Nichols as a long-time skateboarder, hard worker and father who was on his way home from a Memphis park when he was stopped and beaten by police a short distance from his home. He worked at FedEx with his stepfather, Rodney Wells. The two took their lunch breaks together at their home every day, his mother, RowVaughn Wells, said. “My son, he came here right before the pandemic. He got stuck here because you know, we shut the world down. But he was OK with it because you know why? Because he was with his mother,” she said Monday at a news conference. “ “My son loved me to death, and I know that was a bad word but that’s how he felt. He had my name tattooed in his arm, and that made me proud because most kids don’t put their mom’s name but he did. My son was a beautiful soul, and he touched everyone.”Update 1:55 p.m. EST Jan. 27: Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, on Friday said that she hasn’t seen the police-recorded video of her son’s Jan. 7 confrontation with officers. “ what I’ve heard, it’s very horrific. Very horrific,” she said at a news conference. “And any of you who have children, please don’t let them see it.” Family attorney Ben Crump, who viewed the video alongside other attorneys and family members on Monday, said that Nichols’ used his last words to call for his mother.Wells said that she felt a bad pain in her stomach on the night of Jan. 7 which she later attributed to feeling her son’s pain. “I was only away, did not even hear him,” she said. “You have no clue how I feel right now. No clue.”Update 1:05 p.m. EST Jan. 27: Nichols family attorney Antonio Romanucci on Friday called for Chief Cerelyn Davis to disband the department’s SCORPION unit, saying that while its intent was good, “the end result was a failure.” “We must recognize that and do something about it,” he said. “I call on all chiefs in this country to review their saturation units, to review their special squad units, because they can easily become corrupted when they are told — they are whispered in their ear — act with impunity.” Davis created the Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods Unit, known as the SCORPION unit, in October 2021 with the goal of addressing violent crimes throughout the city,“The intent of the SCORPION unit has now been corrupted,” Romanucci said at a news conference on Friday. “It cannot be brought back to center with any sense of morality and dignity and most importantly trust in this community.”Update 12:50 p.m. EST Jan. 27: Lawyer Ben Crump said that it was “foreseeable that something tragic like this was going to happen when you have police officers given ... not just immunity, but impunity to trample on the constitutional rights of people who look a certain color, who live in a certain community.” “We believe that this was a pattern and practice, and Tyre is dead because that pattern and practice went unchecked by the people who were supposed to check that,” he said. Crump, who spoke at a news conference with Nichols’ family, praised Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis but added that “we agree with her when she says policy means nothing if you have a culture — if that culture is rotten.”Update 12:30 p.m. EST Jan. 27: Ben Crump, an attorney for the Nichols family, praised authorities for bringing charges against five officers in the 29-year-old’s death. “When we look at how these five Black officers who were caught on camera committing a crime, and when we look at how fast the police chief and the police department terminated them, and we look at how swiftly the district attorney brought charges against them — in less than 20 days — then we want to proclaim that this is the blueprint going forward for any time any officers, whether they be black or white, will be held accountable,” he said during a news conference Friday with Nichols’ family. “No longer can you tell us we to wait six months to a year, even though we’ve got a video with evidence of the excessive force and the crime.”The last former police officer who remained jailed Friday after being charged with murder and other charges in the death of Nichols has been released on bond,Demetrius Haley was the last officer released, according to the news station. His bond had been set at $350,000, jail records show. Earlier, Emmitt Martin III, who also had a bond of $350,000 was released. Also released were Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith, who each had bonds set at $250,000,
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