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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“This is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe,” Harris said. “Tire Nichols should have been safe.”Article content “You didn’t get on the police department by yourself,” Sharpton said as the congregation clapped and shouted. “People had to march and go to jail and some lost their lives to open the doors for you, and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing?”
The footage ends showing Nichols was left handcuffed, bloodied and slumped against the side of a police vehicle for nearly a quarter-hour before receiving medical attention.The chief of police, Cerelyn Davis, has called the conduct seen in the video “inhumane” and said investigators have not substantiated that Nichols was driving recklessly when he was pulled over, as arresting officers asserted at the time.
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