President Joe Biden released a statement following the release of police body camera and surveillance video showing the Jan. 7 traffic stop and violent police confrontation that led to the death of 29-year-old TyreNichols.
The city of Memphis has released police body camera and surveillance video showing the January 7 traffic stop and violent police confrontation that led to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Two Memphis Fire Department employees who were part of Nichols' initial care have been relieved of duty, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. "Just the disregard for humanity ... That's what really pulls at your heartstrings and makes you wonder: Why was a sense of care and concern for this individual just absent from the situation by all who went to the scene?"Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the mass protest movement known as Black Lives Matter. Davis likened the video to the 1991 Los Angeles police beating that sparked outrage across the country.
Nichols' mother is asking for supporters to be peaceful during demonstrations, saying at a vigil in Memphis on Thursday she wants "each and every one of you to protest in peace." "They then asked me was he on any type of drugs or anything of that nature because they were saying it was so difficult to put the handcuffs on him and he had this amount of energy, superhuman energy," Wells said. "What they were describing was not my son, so I was very confused."
They were then charged this week. Each has been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, two charges of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of official misconduct and one charge of official oppression, Mulroy, the Shelby County district attorney, said.
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