JUST IN: The City of Memphis publicly released body camera and neighborhood security camera footage from the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols.
representing Nichols family members warned it shows Memphis Police Department officers beating Tyre Nichols for several minutes.
President Biden spoke with Nichols' mother and stepfather Friday afternoon to express his condolences and commend "the family's courage and strength," the White House said in a statement.
After he was arrested, the department said Nichols complained of shortness of breath. An ambulance was called, and he was taken to a hospital "in critical condition," its statement reads.said Nichols died days later on Jan. 10 and that preliminary findings from an independent autopsy performed by a pathologist hired by the family revealed he "suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating.
The police chief condemned the actions of the officers involved in Nichols' arrest earlier this week,"directly responsible" for his "physical abuse" and that they had "a failing of basic humanity toward another individual."
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