Video shows Tyre Nichols’ deadly encounter with police | USA TODAY
Memphis Police release footage from four cameras that captured the fatal beating of 29-year old Tyre Nichols. Nichols died three days after his arrest.
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Video released Friday shows Memphis police officers brutally beating a 29-year-old Black man, shouting expletives and using pepper spray and a baton on him while he called out for his mother in a traffic stop that left him hospitalized and, three days later, dead.
Police struck Tyre Nichols at least 13 times, kicking his face, side and head, punching his head and chest, and striking him with a baton. After the beating, as Nichols sat propped up against a police car moaning in pain, police gathered nearby, calling Nichols names, checking on each other and laughing.
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