5 Fired Officers Charged With Murder in the Death of Tyre Nichols: Live Updates
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 26, 2023
MEMPHIS — The warnings have come repeatedly in recent days, each worse than the one before: Video recordings of a traffic stop earlier this month capture a scene of staggering brutality.
The police chief in Memphis condemned the actions of the officers who pulled over Tyre Nichols, who was hospitalized in critical condition after the encounter and later died, as “a failing of basic humanity.” Mr. Nichols’s mother had to stop the video when she tried watching it. A lawyer for the family said the video showed Mr. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, being pummeled . . .
