Family and friends will pay their final respects to Tyre Nichols, who died after fatal encounter with Memphis police last month.
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Nichols died on Jan. 10 in hospital from injuries he sustained three days earlier when beaten by Memphis police who pulled him over while he was driving home, an incident that Crump has branded a “police lynching.”Article content Two other officers implicated in the events leading to Nichols’ death have been relieved of duty — effectively suspended — and are under investigation. Two paramedics and their on-scene supervisor were dismissed on Monday from the city fire department, while two Shelby County sheriff’s deputies have been suspended.
Protests stemming from Nichols’ death have been peaceful and relatively restrained in Memphis, a majority-Black city on the Mississippi River whose racial history was indelibly marked by the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during a visit.
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