Memphis police chief says January site visitors cease that preceded man’s dying was ‘heinous, reckless, and inhumane’
The police chief of Memphis, Tennessee has described the circumstances surrounding the dying of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days after a 7 January encounter with police, as “heinous, reckless, and inhumane”.
“Apart from being your chief of police, I'm a citizen of this neighborhood, we share; I'm a mom, I'm a caring human being who needs the most effective for all of us; this isn't only a skilled failing,” CJ Davis stated in a video assertion launched on YouTube.
“It is a failing of primary humanity towards one other particular person … and within the vein of transparency when the video is launched within the coming days, you will note this for yourselves.”
Nichols allegedly suffered a three-minute beating following a site visitors cease. An unbiased post-mortem indicated that he “suffered intensive bleeding brought on by a extreme beating,” his household lawyer reportedly stated.
“He was a human piñata for these law enforcement officials,” the New York Occasions quoted the household lawyer, Antonio Romanucci, as saying. “Not solely was it violent, it was savage.”
Whereas Memphis police haven't but publicly launched video footage of the incident, Romanucci stated that his household and their authorized staff seen the video on Monday. Romanucci stated it confirmed Nichols was pepper-sprayed, subjected to a stun gun after which restrained.
Memphis police initially stated there was a “confrontation” when officers approached Nichols’s automobile after which one other incident following his arrest, in line with the Occasions.
The 5 officers allegedly concerned within the lethal encounter, who're Black, had been fired following the incident. The Memphis police division, which is already conducting an inside investigation, stated that the officers employed extreme pressure after which failed to help Nichols.
“Concurrent inside that investigation, different MPD officers are nonetheless underneath investigation for division coverage violations, some infractions are much less egregious than others,” Davis stated. State and federal authorities are investigating the deadly encounter.
There have been a minimum of 1,176 police-involved killings in 2022, a document excessive that got here simply three years after George Floyd was murdered by the hands of Minneapolis police, spurring nationwide protests and calls for for racial justice and higher police accountability.
Post a Comment