US on edge over video of fatal police beating
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 27, 2023
US authorities on January 26, 2023 charged five officers with second-degree murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in the eastern state of Tennessee following a traffic stop - Copyright AFP Asif HASSAN
The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.”
The police officers, who were also Black, were charged with second-degree murder in the beating of . . .