Demetrius Haley is accused of taking photos on his personal phone of an “obviously injured” Tyre Nichols handcuffed and propped up against a police cruiser.
sent by the Memphis Police Department to the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission.
“Your on-duty conduct was unjustly, blatantly unprofessional and unbecoming for a sworn public servant,” the department wrote of Haley, according to state documents.The document is part of the process to decertify Haley and four other now-fired officers, all of whom are Black. Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith and Tadarrius Bean are facing second-degree murder and other charges. Aand prosecutors said they are considering charges.
The president added, “Let’s commit ourselves to make the words of Tyre’s mom true: Something good must come from this.”At a Memphis City Council meeting on Tuesday, officials indicated that as many as 13 Memphis police officers could be disciplined for their role in Nichols’s beating. Some of the seven additional officers who could be disciplined were not at the scene of the beating, the police chief said.
“After the subject was placed in custody, [you] and other officers were captured on body camera making multiple unprofessional comments, laughing, and bragging about your involvement,” the department wrote as part of its charges against Mills, according to state documents.Memphis police said Mills later admitted that he did not provide immediate medical aid to Nichols “and walked away and decontaminated yourself from chemical irritant spray.
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