The recording shows police savagely beating Nichols, a 29\u002Dyear\u002Dold FedEx worker, for three minutes while screaming profanities at him.
The five disgraced Memphis Police Department officers, who are also Black, have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in Nichols’ death three days after the arrest. The video released Friday renewed questions about how fatal encounters with law enforcement continue even after repeated calls for change.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
Memphis remained on edge. Ahead of the protests, some downtown Memphis businesses boarded up windows, and the school system canceled after school activities. Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which has about 100,000 students, postponed athletics and extracurricular activities on Saturday. Some of the other questions will focus on what Mills “knew and what he was able to see when he arrived late to the scene” and whether his actions “crossed the lines that were crossed by other officers during this incident,” Ballin said.
“The lack of supervision in this incident was a major problem,” Davis said. “When officers are working, you should have at least one supervisor for every group or squad of people. Not just somebody who’s at the office doing the paperwork, somebody who’s actually embedded in that unit.” After the first officer roughly pulls Nichols out of a car, Nichols can be heard saying, “I didn’t do anything,” as a group of officers begins to wrestle him to the ground.“You guys are really doing a lot right now,” Nichols says. “I’m just trying to go home.”Nichols can then be seen running as an officer fires a Taser at him. The officers then start chasing Nichols.
The fourth officer then walks over, draws a baton and holds it up at shoulder level as two officers hold Nichols upright, as if he were sitting. Two officers can then be seen atop Nichols on the ground, with a third nearby, for about 40 seconds. Three more officers then run up, and one can be seen kicking Nichols on the ground.
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