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, 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.
Two more Memphis police officers were disciplined and three emergency responders fired in connection with Nichols' death, officials said Monday. Officer Preston Hemphill, who is white, and another officer whose name wasn't released, have been suspended, police said.
Police Chief Cerelyn "CJ" Davis said after the release of the video that the unit has been disbanded. Memphis Police Department officers used a stun gun, a baton and their fists as they pummeled Nichols during the nighttime arrest. Video shows Nichols running away from officers toward his house after he was pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving. Nichols, a 29-year-old father, was heard calling for his mother and seen struggling with his injuries as he sat helpless on the pavement, video footage released Friday showed.
"My brother, 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."I already knew how they treated him because I've seen it all over the world," Dupree told CNN. "Police brutality is nothing new.
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