While the nation watched video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols — a Black man who pleaded for his life during a violent encounter with Memphis police — one person who did not watch was Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells.
If there's one thing about Tyre Nichols that says a lot about who he was as a man, it was the relationship he had with his mother, RowVaughn Wells."He has a tattoo of my name on his arm," she said."My son loved me to death, and I love him to death."Nichols was a Sacramento, Calif., native. At 150 pounds he was a rail of a man. He was a father, too. He came to Memphis just before the pandemic locked the world down.
At a press conference Friday, Wells said,"No mother, no mother, no mother, should go through what I'm going though right now, no mother, lo lose their child to the violent way I lost my child."It all started on January 7, when body cam video shows Nichols being yanked from his car.Nichols:"Stop, okay, stop, alright, okay, dude, there it is.
The video shows one officer stopping to tie his shoe; another is trying to get his radio to work. There was laughing and cussing, all while Nichols was suffering life threatening injuries. Nichols died in the hospital three days later.Tyre Nichols died in the hospital three days after being beaten by police.
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