Tyre Nichols, 29, died following a traffic stop in Tennessee, during which he was chased down and hit ‘to the point of being unrecognisable’.
„:“US authorities on Thursday 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. Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving. After a chase ensued, “police brutalised him to the point of being unrecognisable”, family lawyers Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement. The five officers, who are also black, were fired after an internal police investigation found them to have “violated multiple department policies, including excessive use of force, duty to intervene and duty to render aid”, the MPD said last Friday. Nichols was transported to the hospital in critical condition, according to police, where he died on January 10. “These officers were found to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of Mr Nichols,” Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said late on Wednesday.
