The nation and the city of Memphis are struggling to come to grips with video showing five disgraced police officers pummeling Tyre Nichols. The footage released Friday left many unanswered questions about the traffic stop.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The nation and the city of Memphis struggled to come to grips Saturday with video showing police pummeling Tyre Nichols — footage that left many unanswered questions about the traffic stop involving the Black motorist and about other law enforcement officers who stood by as he lay motionless on the pavement.
Rodney Wells, Nichols' stepfather, said the family would "continue to seek justice," noting that several other officers failed to render aid, making them "just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows." "I cried," said protestor Christopher Taylor, a Memphis native who said the officers appeared to be laughing as they stood around after the beating.
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 city was "initiating an outside, independent review of the training, policies and operations of our specialized units," Strickland said in a statement.
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 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. Your Blackness will not stop us from fighting you. These five cops not only disgraced their names, they disgraced our race.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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