Your Monday Briefing: The Fallout from a Police Beating
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Tennessee
‘We’re not done’: end of Scorpion unit after Tyre Nichols death is first step, protesters say
Call for release of information on all officers and an end to pre-textual traffic stops, such as pulling people over for loud musicAlong Main Street, just outside Memphis City Hall, a swarm of white and Black protesters and organizers gathered under th…
Memphis police disband unit whose officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols
The Scorpion unit has been deactivated after video was released of the brutal beating of the 29-year-old at the hands of officersThis article contains a video depicting violenceThe Memphis police chief on Saturday disbanded the unit whose officers beat…
‘I’m just trying to go home’: Tyre Nichols heard pleading in released video
The grisly footage, released in four parts, indicates an ambulance did not arrive for more than 20 minutes after the vicious beatingThis article contains descriptions of physical violenceA group of Tennessee police officers punched and kicked Tyre Nich…
US protests begin after police release footage of fatal beating of Tyre Nichols
Demonstrations in Memphis and other US cities follow release of video and request from Nichols’s mother to ‘protest in peace’Demonstrations quickly began Friday evening as Memphis police released footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.The video r…
‘He had a beautiful soul’: Tyre Nichols’s parents reflect on the son who was taken from them
A candlelight vigil was held at the skatepark where the 29-year-old would give lessons to his four-year-old son, his mother saidTyre Nichols, the latest in a long line of young American Black men whose death is tied to the police, was a “beautiful soul…
Tyre Nichols’s mother says ‘I feel sorry’ for officers charged with son’s murder
RowVaughn Wells gives interview after five Memphis police officers were charged with murder in the beating death of her sonTyre Nichols’s mother says she feels sorry for the five Memphis police officers who are charged with killing her son by beating h…
Tyre Nichols video worse than Rodney King footage, Memphis police chief says
CJ Davis says department will release ‘alarming’ video of officers, now charged with murder of black man who died days laterThe chief of the Memphis police warned on Friday that the video of officers beating Tyre Nichols is “perhaps worse” than the inf…
Tennessee high school students build robotic hand for classmate
Students designed, 3D printed and sized a prosthetic hand for Sergio Peralta, whose right hand is not fully formedStudents at a Tennessee high school have built a robotic hand for a classmate missing part of his, an act of friendship that he has called…
Tyre Nichols: five Memphis ex-police officers charged with murder over motorist’s death
Nichols, 29, died three days after a traffic stop turned into a fatal physical attack on 7 JanuaryFive former Memphis police officers were charged Thursday with murder and other crimes in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist in Memphis, Tennes…