Police video captured images of officers beating and kicking Nichols, hitting him with batons, spraying him with pepper spray and firing a stun gun at him after a traffic stop on January 7. The case has renewed a national discussion of race relations and police brutality. The five officers, who are all out on bail, […]
The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, said Tuesday that police had not been candid with Nichols’ mother about the incident, which he called “police lynching.” “She thought it was a conspiracy to cover it up from the beginning,” Crump said on CNN. In a statement on Twitter, District Attorney Mulroy said other officers, fire department personnel […]
Police caught up with Nichols a short distance away, where additional video clips show him repeatedly punching, kicking and pelting officers with batons, before Nichols was handcuffed and placed on the side of a police vehicle Is. He died three days later from his injuries while being hospitalized. Responding to an incident originally dispatched as […]
A sixth Memphis police officer has been dismissed from the force for his involvement in the fatal beating of Tyra Nichols, local media reported Monday, days after video footage of the killing was released to the public. News Channel 3, citing the Memphis Police Department, reported that the officer, identified as Preston Hemphill, had been […]
The bill, which aims to curb aggressive law enforcement tactics, passed the Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives in 2021 but is stalled in the Senate. Biden called on Congress on Thursday to send the legislation to his desk. Nichols’ death is the latest high-profile example of police using excessive force against black people and other […]
The unit, Street Crime Operations to restore peace in our neighbourhoods, was formed in October 2021 to focus on crime hot spots. Critics say that such elite teams can fall prey to offensive tactics. Taken together, the four video clips showed police beating Nichols even though he was not a threat. The initial traffic stop […]
Nicolas called his mother Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney representing Nichols’ family, compared it to the 1991 videotape of four police officers beating black motorist Rodney King, who was acquitted of criminal charges the following year, in Los Angeles for several days. Riots happened. “This young man lost his life in a particularly despicable […]
