The family of Tyre Nichols plans to lay him to rest Wednesday, three weeks after he died following a brutal beating, by Memphis police after a traffic stop.
In those three weeks, harrowing video of the beating was released, and five police officers have been fired and charged with murder. Their specialized unit was disbanded. Two more officers have been suspended. Also fired: two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a lieutenant. And more discipline could be coming.
Nichols grew up in Sacramento, California, and loved the San Francisco 49ers. He came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck. But he was fine with it because he was with his mother, RowVaughn Wells, and they were incredibly close, she said. He even had her name tattooed on his arm.
Body camera video shows Nichols was beaten as officers screamed profanities, even as Nichols seemed confused about what he did wrong. He ran but was caught at another intersection. Security camera images from that scene show two officers holding Nichols to the ground as a third appears to kick him in the head. Later, another officer strikes Nichols repeatedly with a baton as another officer holds him.
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