Ex-Memphis police supervisor says there was 'no need' for officers …
WEB18 hours ago · MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — There was “no need” for five Memphis police officers to punch, kick, and hit Tyre Nichols with a baton on the night he was fatally beaten after a traffic stop, their former supervisor testified Thursday in the federal trial for three of the officers.. Dewayne Smith told the court he was a Memphis police lieutenant who supervised Scorpion Unit One, which included ...
Tyre Nichols jurors see video of EMTs failing to give medical aid …
WEB1 day ago · Nichols, who was Black, was pepper sprayed and hit with a stun gun during a traffic stop, but ran away, police video shows. The five former officers, who also are Black, then beat him about a ...
'They didn't need to hit him anymore,' ex-Scorpion Unit supervisor ...
WEB20 hours ago · The federal trial for three former Memphis officers charged in the beating of Tyre Nichols closed out its second week with testimony from an ex-Scorpion Unit supervisor who claimed that some of ...
Lieutenant testifies in case of officers accused of beating Tyre ...
WEB4 days ago · The federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in connection with the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols continued Monday, with the cross-examination of a Memphis Police Department (MPD) lieutenant who trained the defendants.
What to Know About the Trial Over Tyre Nichols’s Death
WEB2 days ago · The graphic footage of a group of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black FedEx worker for roughly three minutes in January 2023, despite his cries for help and his...
Officers pummeled Tyre Nichols because he fled, a form of 'run …
WEBSep 11, 2024 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three former Memphis police officers charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after they punched, kicked and struck him with a baton in an attack that a prosecutor says was punishment because he tried to run away. The former officers are standing trial accused of …
Tyre Nichols trial update: Former officer testifies | CNN
WEB3 days ago · Tyre Nichols posed no threat to police when he was snatched out of his car during a traffic stop that preceded a fatal beating by five Memphis officers, according to testimony Monday by a former ...
Federal trial of former officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death to ...
WEBSep 9, 2024 · The image from video released on Jan. 27, 2023, by the City of Memphis, shows Tyre Nichols during a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. City of Memphis ...
Who Was Tyre Nichols? - The New York Times
WEBJan 26, 2023 · Tyre Nichols, the man whose death this month at the hands of Memphis police led to the dismissal of five officers, loved to photograph sunsets and to skateboard, a passion he’d had since he was...
Police officers' trial on civil rights charges in Tyre Nichols death to ...
WEBApr 4, 2024 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The federal trial of four former Memphis police officers charged with civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will be held in the city, a judge ruled Thursday.