While details of Tyre Nichol's arrest remain few and far in between, his family's lawyers announced that preliminary autopsy results suggested Nichols 'suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating.'
As brutal details continued to filter out about the death offollowing his arrest by Memphis police after a traffic stop, representatives from the Department of Justice held a briefing on Wednesday morning to reassure the public and ask for calm.
Ritz called for peace and patience as an edgy public anticipates the looming release of a video of the 29-year-old Black man’s encounter with police, which the Nichols family compared to the beating of Rodney King,
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