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On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him. Nichols broke free and ran toward ...
Five former Memphis police officers were indicted Thursday on murder charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, whose beating after a traffic stop was captured on video that “sickened” a top ...
The beating of Nichols by police officers following a traffic stop was captured in video footage eventually released by the city of Memphis. Prosecutors had accused officers Bean, Haley and Smith ...
Nearly an hour of footage showing Memphis police officers pepper spray, baton, punch, kick and tase Tyre Nichols helped bring swift murder charges. Bevan Hurley explains the horror captured in ...
On January 26, the five officers were charged with second-degree murder. [2] On January 27, the City of Memphis released body camera and surveillance footage of the encounter, showing the officers beating Nichols nine times. [3] [4] Nichols' family and Memphis city leaders prepared for and called for peaceful protests ahead of the video's ...
Between 2005 – when records began – and April 2021 when Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, Bowling Green State University Professor Philip Matthew Stinson found that at ...
Harrowing surveillance footage captured officers beating the 29-year-old man after a traffic stop in January
In Memphis, Black people are killed at a rate 1.5 times higher than their white counterparts, according to data from Mapping Police Violence. Everything we know about the Tyre Nichols case 18:04 ...