On the eve of Tyre Nichols' funeral, his family plans to gather Tuesday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump at the historic Mason Temple in Memphis.
and attorney Ben Crump at the historic Mason Temple in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech the night before he was assassinated, to speak about the latest developments in the case.
Six officers were part of the so-called Scorpion unit, which targeted violent criminals in high-crime areas. Other Memphis residents who say they also were “brutalized” by officers in the unit will speak, according to a statement from Crump.The Memphis Police Department released the video Friday. It includes police body cam footage and footage from a surveillance camera on a pole.
The Shelby County sheriff said he launched an investigation over concerns about two deuties who appeared in the video of the police beating that led to Tyre Nichols’ death in Memphis, Tenn. “I’m 99% sure that my brother has never gotten into a fight before. And the one time he got into an altercation with other humans, we wasn’t there to protect him. My brother was trying to cooperate with them,” Dupree, who lives in California, said of the Memphis officers.Protests broke out across the nation as video footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers was released on Friday.
“I think people really know my brother did not deserve this," he told CNN."He was not that type of person. Yeah, he was just a good guy around the board. ... We want justice.” “This was his favorite place to skate,” she said at the vigil. “I just want to thank all of you for your continued support for our family, and making sure his name is never forgotten.”
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