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☆ Tyre Nichols: Ex-officer testifies he beat ‘helpless’ Nichols then lied about it
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Ex-officer testifies, ‘He was helpless’Prosecutor Kathryn Gilbert asked Martin whether officers were allowed to use force out of anger. In this still from video released by the City of Memphis, officers from the Memphis Police Department beat Tyre Nichols on a street corner. Martin said he told Lt. Smith that Nichols was high, without evidence, and that officers lied about Nichols driving into oncoming traffic and swinging at them during the traffic stop. The truth needs to come out,” Martin told Gilbert. While Martin was away from his team, Justin Smith called and Martin told him he was having homicidal thoughts, Martin said.

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☆ Tyre Nichols trial update: Former officer testifies
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The four men, along with fellow officer Desmond Mills Jr., were fired after the January 2023 death of Nichols. For the first time in the trial, jurors heard from one of the officers who beat Nichols. Haley eventually stopped Nichols’ Nissan, pulled out his gun and snatched Nichols from his vehicle without telling Nichols why he was stopped. Former officer: Memphis officers are not trained to punch or kick peopleVideo also shows the officers milling about and talking as Nichols struggles with his injuries. In this still from video released by the City of Memphis, officers from the Memphis Police Department beat Tyre Nichols on a street corner.

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☆ Opening statements are set in the trial of 3 ex-Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Opening statements were expected Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols. Police video released that month showed the five officers, who also are Black, beating Nichols as he yelled for his mother about a block from his home. The officers said Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, but Memphis’ police chief has said there is no evidence to substantiate that claim. The three officers now facing trial, along with Martin and Mills, were fired for violating Memphis Police Department policies. They had been members of a crime suppression team called the Scorpion Unit, which was disbanded after Nichols’ death.

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CNN —A second former Memphis police officer facing federal civil rights charges in the violent arrest and beating death of Tyre Nichols changed his plea to guilty on Friday in federal court. Mills and Martin are among five former officers charged in the death of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. He admitted he “willfully used unreasonable force against Tyre Nichols,” “aided and abetted” other officers in assaulting Nichols and “failed to intervene” in other officers’ use of force. Police said the unit was permanently deactivated shortly after Nichols’ death. The beating and Nichols’ death led to protests and vigils in Memphis and other major US cities, reigniting the contentious debate over policing and the ways that law enforcement treat Black people.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The city of Memphis released hours of additional video and audio on Tuesday in the case of five fired police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Tyre Nichols last January. Police video released weeks after the killing showed the five officers beating Nichols as he yelled for his mother just steps from his house. That video also showed the officers milling about and talking with each other as Nichols sat on the ground, struggling with his injuries. The four who remain charged face federal trial in May and state court trial in August. Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that most police personnel records that pre-dated Nichols’ beating could be released.

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☆ League suspends Morant 25 games over alleged firearm video
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The two-time All-Star was previously suspended for eight games in March after he appeared in another social media video holding a firearm at a nightclub. To the kids who look up to me, I'm sorry for failing you as a role model. I promise I'm going to be better," Morant said in a statement reported by ESPN. "To all of my sponsors, I'm going to be a better representation of our brands. And to all of my fans, I'm going to make it up to you, I promise.

Persons: Ja Morant, Dennis Schroder, Petre Thomas, Morant, Adam Silver, I'm, Amy Tennery, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Memphis Grizzlies, Los Angeles Lakers, FedExForum, National Basketball Association, The Grizzlies, NBA, Grizzlies, ESPN, Thomson Locations: Memphis , Tennessee, USA, Memphis, New York

May 3 (Reuters) - An autopsy showed Tyre Nichols had a legal amount of alcohol and a trace amount of marijuana in his blood when Memphis police beat the Black man to death after a traffic stop in January, ABC News reported on Wednesday, undermining police claims that Nichols was high. Nichols' death provoked widespread outrage after police video showed officers beating and kicking Nichols, 29, as he cried out for his mother near his family home in Tennessee. Nichols' blood alcohol level was .049%, well below the .08% legal limit in Tennessee, and he had trace amounts of marijuana in his system, ABC reported. The video showed the first emergency medical technician to treat Nichols first asked him, "What'd you have? Crump and Romanucci are representing Nichols' family in a $550 million federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis.

CNN —Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who was violently beaten by Memphis police officers in January, died from blunt force trauma to the head and his death has been ruled a homicide, his autopsy results revealed Thursday. Nichols was repeatedly punched and kicked by five Memphis Police Department officers on January 7 following a traffic stop and brief foot chase. A toxicology report performed on Nichols detected the presence of chemicals associated with marijuana and alcohol use, the report says. CNN has contacted the Shelby County medical examiner to obtain a direct copy of Nichols’ autopsy report. The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office told CNN on Tuesday that it will not pursue criminal charges against Hemphill.

☆ Tyre Nichols’s Mother Sues Memphis, Police Chief and Officers Involved in Son’s Death
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Brandon Dill/Associated PressThe mother of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis man who died in January after being beaten by police during a traffic stop, on Wednesday sued the city of Memphis, its police chief and others, including the former officers now facing murder charges in Mr. Nichols’s death. In the 139-page complaint, RowVaughn Wells said her 29-year-old son was killed in “a gruesome, barbaric display of police brutality on the streets of a quiet neighborhood in Memphis.” The complaint stated that Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis exercised poor training and oversight of officers and fostered an attitude among officers that they were above the law.

☆ Tyre Nichols’s Mother Sues Memphis, Police for at Least $500 Million After Son’s Death
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Cameron Mcwhirter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Fact Check-Video purporting to show NBA Commissioner saying Ja Morant was suspended due to ‘thuggish and gangster activities’ is altered, stems from satire
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A clip that purportedly shows NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announcing the suspension of Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant because of “thuggish and gangster activities” has been altered and was likely meant as satire. While Morant was indeed suspended for at least two games, this came after displaying what appeared to be a gun at a nightclub. I hope he learns during this time that his thuggish and gangster activities are prohibited by the NBA. Parody / Satire.”A Google search shows the clip was taken from Silver’s NBA All-Star press conference (here) in February 2023. A clip that purportedly shows Adam Silver announcing the suspension of Ja Morant because of his “thuggish and gangster activities” features an edited audio track and was likely meant as satire.

☆ The white officer fired for his role in Tyre Nichols' arrest was once praised for his ability to 'extinguish a volatile situation'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | Narimes Parakul | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tyre Nichols died three days after being pulled over and beaten by Memphis police officers. Preston Hemphill was the sixth officer fired over his role in Nichols' arrest. Hemphill, who joined the Memphis Police Department in March 2018, was fired on February 3 for his role at the scene of Tyre Nichols' beating. "As per departmental regulations Officer Hemphill activated his bodycam," Gerald said. Hemphill was the sixth and only white officer to be fired by the city of Memphis over the SCORPION unit's beating of Tyre Nichols.

☆ Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols attacked Black veteran 3 days earlier, lawsuit alleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Memphis man alleges in a federal lawsuit that the cops who beat Tyre Nichols attacked him, too. Three days before Nichols' beating, he was also beaten by the SCORPION unit officers, the suit says. "Unknown to Mr. Harris at the time – the black masked assailants were members of the Scorpion Unit." "Mr. Harris had great difficulty walking because his left leg was gashed from the assault," the suit alleges. "But for witnesses coming outside to observe after hearing Mr. Harris' loud screams, Mr. Harris would likely have suffered the same fate as Mr.

☆ New Memphis Lawsuit Alleges Police Brutality by Officers Charged in Death of Tyre Nichols
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Mariah Timms | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Monterrious Harris has sued the city of Memphis, alleging police brutality in an incident that he says occurred just days before Tyre Nichols’s death. A Memphis resident filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit Tuesday alleging he was unjustly beaten by a group of police officers that included those charged with killing Tyre Nichols . The alleged excessive force happened three days before Mr. Nichols’s fatal encounter with police. The suit seeks $5 million in compensatory damages.

☆ A Memphis police officer took and shared photo of bloodied Tyre Nichols immediately following beating, state oversight report claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Memphis police officer reportedly took and shared photos of Tyre Nichols following his beating. Five officers have been charged in Nichols' death. On the evening of January 7, Memphis police officers stopped Nichols on suspicion of "reckless driving," though police officials have since said they haven't found evidence that Nichols was driving erratically. A second confrontation occurred after Nichols got up and ran away as an officer tried to Tase him. Body-camera footage showed several officers beating Nichols while he was on the ground.

☆ All 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death removed or failed to activate their body-worn cameras. They were caught by a 'sky cop' camera installed to monitor crime hotspots.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

All 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death failed to capture the entire incident on body cameras. Three of the five removed their cameras during the still-active scene, according to new police docs. Following Nichols' death, the police department released portions of responding officers' body-worn camera footage, as well as CCTV video of the encounter. But investigators said Martin failed to activate his body-worn camera during the first confrontation with Nichols. Both Haley and Smith also failed to capture the encounter with Nichols in its entirety, according to police records.

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☆ 7 more Memphis police officers are facing internal investigations over Tyre Nichols' death. 6 cops have already been fired.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Memphis police are investigating 7 more officers in connection with Tyre Nichols' death. A spokesperson for the city of Memphis confirmed the investigation to Insider. Five officers have already been charged with murdering Nichols, and an additional officer was fired. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicySeven more Memphis police officers are facing internal investigations and possible discipline over the killing of Tyre Nichols. Six officers with the Memphis Police Department have already been fired, and 5 of those have been charged with murder after brutally beating Tyre Nichols on January 7, 2023.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Surveillance cameras like the one that captured police officers beating Tyre Nichols have proliferated in the U.S. in recent years, even as researchers, civil-liberties advocates and law-enforcement officials debate whether they are effective at combating violent crime. Footage released last week by the city of Memphis from a pole-mounted surveillance camera provided a clearer view than the officers’ body-worn cameras of the Jan. 7 encounter, when Mr. Nichols was punched, kicked and struck with batons. He died in a Memphis hospital three days later.

☆ In pictures: Tom Brady's record-setting NFL career
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Cities across the United States saw nonviolent demonstrations after the city of Memphis released graphic video footage of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with his murder.

☆ Tyre Nichols Footage Could Be Key to Prosecution, but Video Evidence Presents Challenges in Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The body-camera footage capturing the police encounter that led to the death of Tyre Nichols is likely to be central in any future murder trial of the officers involved, but lawyers cautioned that even vivid videos can present challenges for prosecutors in court. The footage, released by the city of Memphis, Tenn., on Friday evening, depicts what took place after 29-year-old Mr. Nichols, who is Black, was stopped by police earlier this month. The videos showed several Memphis police officers kicking and striking Mr. Nichols repeatedly, including while he appears defenseless.

☆ Tyre Nichols Footage Could Be Key to Prosecution, but Video Evidence Presents Challenges in Police Cases
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A screen grab of body-cam footage released last week of the encounter with Memphis police that led to the death of Tyre Nichols. The body-camera footage capturing the police encounter that led to the death of Tyre Nichols is likely to be central in any future murder trial of the officers involved, but lawyers cautioned that even vivid videos can present challenges for prosecutors in court. The footage, released by the city of Memphis, Tenn., on Friday evening, depicts what took place after 29-year-old Mr. Nichols, who is Black, was stopped by police earlier this month. The videos showed several Memphis police officers kicking and striking Mr. Nichols repeatedly, including while he appears defenseless.

☆ After Tyre Nichols Video Release, Memphis Disbands Scorpion Street-Crime Unit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Memphis Police Department on Saturday said it was shutting down the specialized Scorpion street-crime unit whose members included former officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols . The move to disband the unit came a day after the city of Memphis, Tenn., released video footage of the Jan. 7 traffic stop that led to the death of Mr. Nichols. Authorities had warned the video would be brutal.

☆ Death of Tyre Nichols revives calls in Congress for policing reforms
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Protesters rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols, outside of the Coleman A. Five Memphis officers, also all Black, were charged with second-degree murder in the beating of Tyre Nichols, who died in hospital on January 10 three days after being stopped on suspicion of reckless driving. Durbin added that he would not rule out a federal investigation into the entire Memphis Police Department following Nichols' death. Some policing reforms were already in place in Memphis at the time of Nichols' death, including a requirement for officers to de-escalate situations where they saw others using excessive force. "Just as much those officers are responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols, so is the implicit bias police culture that exists in America," Crump told ABC's "This Week."

an officer is heard screaming while pulling Nichols out of his car. Officers are seen pinning Nichols to the ground on his side while grabbing his arms and giving him contradictory orders. "You guys are really doing a lot right now," Nichols is heard saying during the encounter. Police officers talk after the attack on Tyre Nichols during an arrest in Memphis, Tenn. on Jan. 7. One officer claims that during the initial traffic stop, he repeatedly tried to get Nichols to stop driving.

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