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Protests over the killing of Tyre Nichols (/ ˈ t aɪ. r i ˈ n ɪ k. ə l z / TY-ree) began on January 27, 2023, following the release of police body camera and surveillance footage showing five Black officers from the Memphis Police Department beating Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. The police assault on Nichols occurred on January 7, 2023 ...
Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols to death were released.
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 ...
Amber Sherman, a member with the official Black Lives Matter Memphis chapter, told Scripps News organizations in Memphis and across the nation are holding events and protests to stand in ...
On March 29, 2021, at 2:38 a.m., a 13-year-old Mexican American boy, Adam Toledo, was shot and killed by Eric Stillman, a Chicago Police Department officer, in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. After the incident, the Chicago Police Department stated Toledo had been killed after an armed confrontation with police. [133]
The city of Memphis has released the video showing the actions of officers while arresting Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.
Around 3:45 p.m., Memphis Police Department officers arrived at the scene and told protestors that they were engaged in an "unlawful assembly" and needed to leave the bridge.
Five officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith — were fired and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated ...