Family and friends of Tyre Nichols will pay their final respects on Wednesday to the Black 29-year-old father whose fatal encounter with Memphis police last month transformed him into the new face of the US racial justice movement.
A person holds a placard with a picture of Tyre Nichols during a news conference held by the family members of Nichols, the Black man who was beaten by Memphis police officers during a traffic stop and died three days later, at Mason Temple: Church of God in Christ World Headquarters, in Memphis, Tennessee, US, January 31, 2023.
Relatives of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, two other African Americans whose deaths in 2020 at the hands of police in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, became rallying cries for the Black Lives Matter movement, were also invited to attend. Two other officers implicated in the events leading to Nichols' death have been relieved of duty — effectively suspended — and are under investigation. Two paramedics and their on-scene supervisor were dismissed on Monday from the city fire department, while two Shelby County sheriff's deputies have been suspended.
Civil rights advocates and lawyers for Nichols' family have condemned the beating as the latest case of an African American brutalised by a racially biased law enforcement system that disproportionately targets people of colour, even when officers involved are non-white. “What happened to Tyre Nichols here is a disgrace to this country,” Sharpton told reporters, flanked by Nichols' mother and his stepfather, Rodney Wells. “People from around the world watched the videotape of a man, unarmed, unprovoked, being beaten to death by officers of the law.”
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