Tire Nichols repeatedly cried, “Mom! Mom!” as five Memphis police officers are now charged with the murder of a Black motorist who pummeled him with kicks, punches and baton blows after a January 7 traffic stop, a video released by the city showed.
Videos from body-worn police cameras and utility pole-mounted cameras were posted online a day after the officers were charged with murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression in Nichols’ death.
The officers, all black, were fired from the police department last week. Nichols, 29, was hospitalized and died of his injuries three days after the confrontation in the town where he lived with his mother and father and worked at FedEx.
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