(Washington Insider Magazine) – The Memphis police specified hours before the publication of the video that the traffic stop and subsequent fatal beating of Nichols show “acts that defy humanity.”
Authorities in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, released police body camera video as well as surveillance video of the traffic stop and confrontation that led to the death of Tire Nichols.
The Memphis police specified hours before the publication of the video that the traffic stop and subsequent fatal beating of Nichols show “acts that defy humanity.”
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Three police body cameras and an overhead angle of a police camera attached to a pole recorded the tragic scene, said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy.
In the conflict, five former Memphis police officers were charged with murder and kidnapping, according to the Shelby County district attorney.
Nichols was pulled over on January 7 by police for reckless driving, but in the middle of the stop, a “confrontation” broke out.
According to the Memphis police chief, who noted that the department has found nothing to support probable cause of reckless driving.
“It was an absolute beating, without shame, non-stop beating this young man for three minutes,” Nichols family attorney Antonio Romanucci said in statements reported by CNN, comparing Nichols to “a human piñata” in the face of the attack. suffered.
This article is authored by Jerald Jiménez.
