Memphis police beat Tyre Nichols so badly his head was swollen 'like a watermelon' and his neck was broken, the mother of the 29-year-old Black man said Friday as the city girded for possible violence over his death.
Tyre Nichols died on 10 January after he was allegedly assaulted by five police officers during a traffic stop.
"When my husband and I got to the hospital and I saw my son, he was already gone. They had beat him to a pulp, he had bruises all over him," Wells said through tears. After a chase ensued,"police brutalized him to the point of being unrecognizable," family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement.The case raised fears of violence across the country amid simmering anger over police mistreatment of African-Americans.
She told CNN her son, while tall, only weighed 150 pounds and questioned why five heavier officers needed to beat him.
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