An autopsy showed Tyre Nichols had a legal amount of alcohol and a trace amount of marijuana in his blood when Memphis police beat the Black man to death after a traffic stop in January, ABC News reported on Wednesday, undermining police claims that Nichols was high.
Nichols' death provoked widespread outrage after police video showed officers beating and kicking Nichols, 29, as he cried out for his mother near his family home in Tennessee. Five police officers, all Black, have been charged with second-degree murder.
The Shelby County District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the five police officers, shared the report with the family before it became public, ABC said, citing one of the network's journalists who was in the room with the family at the time. Police body camera video of events after the beating captured officers claiming Nichols was high and expressing disbelief when no contraband was found in his car.
At the time Nichols was mortally wounded, seated against a patrol car and with his hands cuffed behind his back. His response was unintelligible. He died in a hospital three days later.against the city of Memphis.
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