“Violence will not bring our son back,” Tyre Nichols’ stepdad Rodney Wells told Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation on Saturday.
In the days leading up to the release of the video on Friday, officials signaled the footage would likely spark an uprising of anger reminiscent of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.by Los Angeles cops in 1991.The bombshell body cam footage released Friday night shows Nichols – a 29-year-old father with no police record — kicked, punched and pepper sprayed after police pulled him over for alleged reckless driving on Jan. 7.Disturbing footage of police beating Nichols sparked nationwide protests.
Five cops involved — identified as Tadarrius Bean, 24, Demetrius Haley, 30, Emmitt Martin III, 30, Desmond Mills, Jr., 32, and Justin Smith, 28 — wereThey are charged with aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression in addition to second-degree murder. Rodney Wells told MSNBC that he originally wanted the officers charged with first-degree murder but has since supported the second-degree charge.
“What we don’t want to happen is to go to trial and they get off on a technicality. They seem to have an ironclad case so we want to go forward with it,” he told Sharpton.
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