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Sep 12 2023
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DOJ files criminal charges against 5 former Memphis officers in Tyre Nichols beating
The Justice Department on Tuesday filed federal criminal charges against five former Memphis police officers, accusing them of violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after being severely beaten during a traffic stop in January. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. The four-count indictment represents the latest
Washington PostSep 12 2023
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Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols death face federal civil rights indictment
Five former Memphis police officers who were criminally charged for beating Tyre Nichols during an arrest that led to his death are now facing federal civil rights charges. An indictment listed on a criminal docket in US District Court in Tenneesee lists three separate counts against the men, including the use of excessive force and failure to intervene, deliberate indifference, and witness
The IndependentMar 08 2023
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A judge blocks the release of additional footage of the beating death of Tyre Nichols
A judge in Tennessee has blocked the release of some 20 hours of additional video and audio recordings of the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers in January.
Those recordings, along with other reports and personnel files related to an administrative investigation by Memphis city officials, had been slated to be released Wednesday.
But Shelby County Criminal
NPR (Online News)Feb 18 2023
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2 Deputies Suspended in Tyre Nichols Case Didn’t Activate Body Cameras
The screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. (Matthew Hinton/File/AP Photo) Two sheriff’s deputies, who have been suspended for five days for their role in the arrest of Tyre Nichols, failed to keep their body cameras activated after they went to the location
The Epoch TimesFeb 17 2023
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Memphis police due in court to issue pleas in death of Tyre Nichols
[1/2] Officers who were terminated after their involvement in a traffic stop that ended with the death of Tyre Nichols, pose in a combination of undated photographs in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. From top left clockwise are officers Preston Hemphill, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills, Jr. Memphis Police Department/Handout via REUTERS MEMPHIS, Tenn
ReutersFeb 16 2023
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Tyre Nichols death: two Tennessee deputies suspended without pay
Two Tennessee law enforcement officers were suspended for five days without pay after an investigation revealed they failed to report they were on the scene the night police brutally beat Tyre Nichols. Memphis police officers pulled Nichols over in Memphis’ Hickory Hill neighborhood the night of Jan. 7. He was repeatedly punched, tased and kicked by police during the traffic stop and required
New York Daily NewsFeb 10 2023
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DA to review cases handled by cops charged in Tyre Nichols' death
DA to review cases handled by cops charged in Tyre Nichols’ death Shelby County’s District Attorney’s office in Tennessee is reviewing all cases previously handled by the five Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death. The probe comes as police records describe allegedly false comments given by Preston Hemphill — the sixth officer to be fired after Nichols’ death. Hemphill was
The GrioFeb 08 2023
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One Officer Sent Around Pictures of Tyre Nichols’ Bloodied Face
One of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took photos of Nichols’ bludgeoned body after the incident, according to public records obtained by The New York Times. The officer also sent the images to six people including two more MPD officers. As if the camera footage of the officers bragging and laughing over Tyre’s slumped body wasn’t enough,
Yahoo NewsFeb 07 2023
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Lawmakers give standing ovation to Tyre Nichols’s parents at State of the Union
Members of Congress gave a standing ovation to the parents of Tyre Nichols during the State of the Union address in one of the most bipartisan and dramatic moments of the night.
RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’s mother, and her husband, Rodney Wells, Nichols’s stepfather, were present for the address a week after the funeral for the 29-year-old Nichols, who died after being brutally beaten by
The HillFeb 01 2023
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VP Kamala Harris speaks at Tyre Nichols emotional funeral in Memphis
A moving funeral service for Tyre Nichols — who died this month following a vicious beating at the hands of police — took place Wednesday in Memphis, bookended by a 70-person gospel choir and featuring an address from Vice President Kamala Harris.
Father-of-one Nichols, 29, died on Jan. 10 in hospital, three days after he was severely injured by five police officers who were caught on
New York Post (News)