Thousands of people, including Vice President Kamala Harris, are expected to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols — a father, FedEx worker, and an avid skateboarder — who died after being beaten by five Memphis Police Department officers in early January.
The funeral is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. CT at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis on Wednesday and the church's senior pastor, the Rev. J. Lawrence Turner, said he expects the service to be full and as many as 2,500 people to attend.body-worn and utility pole camera footage
released by the Memphis Police Department. The footage shows the officers pepper-spraying, kicking, punching, and hitting Nichols while he was restrained, bashing him with a baton, and shooting him with a Taser. After the beating, Nichols was hospitalized in critical condition and died three days later, having suffered “extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” according to an autopsy commissioned by his family.
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