Tyre Nichols - The African Mirror

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Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Video shows Memphis police officers kicking, beating Tyre Nichols

WORLD

ALYSSA POINTER and STEVE GORMAN TYRE Nichols repeatedly cried, "Mom! Mom!” as the five Memphis police officers now charged with the Black motorist's murder pummeled him with kicks, punches and baton blows after a Jan. 7 traffic stop, video released by the city on Friday showed. The video from police body-worn cameras and a camera mounted on a utility pole were posted online a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression in Nichols' death. The officers, all Black, were dismissed from the police department last week. Nichols, 29, was hospitalized and died of…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder in death of Tyre Nichols

WORLD

TYLER CLIFFORD FIVE former Memphis police officers were charged with murder in the death of a Black motorist, Tyre Nichols, from injuries he sustained in a violent encounter following a traffic stop, prosecutors said. Nichols, a 29-year-old father, died while hospitalized on January 10, three days after the confrontation during his arrest by the five police officers. Officials were expected on Friday evening to release police body-worn camera video of the incident, which a lawyer for Nichols' family likened to the notorious footage of Los Angeles police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King more than 30 years ago. "We're here…