Tyre Nichols Cried in Anguish. Memphis Officers Kept Hitting.
Video footage of the fatal encounter included critical moments in which police officers kicked, punched and pepper-sprayed Mr. Nichols, 29, while he screamed.
The Responsibility of Watching
The video of Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols challenges public complacency — and complicity. What are our duties as citizens and as human beings?
Who Was Tyre Nichols? From Sacramento to Memphis, He Cut His Own Path
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| “To the five police officers that murdered my son, you also disgraced your own families when you did this,” RowVaughn Wells, Mr. Nichols’s mother, said in the news conference. Desiree Rios/The New York Times |
