Security camera footage shows three officers surrounding Nichols as he lies in the street cornered between police cars, with a fourth officer nearby. The officers beat him with a baton and kick and punch him. Other officers are called, and a search ensues before Nichols is caught at another intersection. Nichols can then be seen running as an officer fires a Taser at him. "Stop, I'm not doing anything," he yells moments later. "You guys are really doing a lot right now," Nichols says. Nichols calmly says, "OK, I'm on the ground." One officer is heard yelling, "Tase him! Tase him!" The Nichols family legal team has likened the assault to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.Īfter 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. The recording shows police savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes while screaming profanities at him throughout the attack. The chilling images of another Black man dying at the hands of police renewed tough questions about how fatal encounters with law enforcement continue even after repeated calls for change. The footage emerged one day after the officers were charged with murder in Nichols' death. The video is filled with violent moments showing the officers, who are also Black, chasing and pummelling Nichols and leaving him on the pavement propped against a squad car as they fist-bumped and celebrated their actions. Memphis authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by police officers who held the Black motorist down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons as he screamed for his mother and pleaded, "'I'm just trying to go home."
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