The Memphis authorities have published more than an hour of collected images of the brutal beating suffered by the young African-American Tire Nichols by the County Police. In the extremely harsh images, you can see how the officers hold the young black man and beat him repeatedly while he screams for his mother. The video has been made public a day after [[LINK:INTERNO|||Article|||63d37fb4874bb0e465e2fc4b|||los cinco oficiales fueran acusados de asesinato]]for the death of Nichols just three days after his arrest.
Footage shows police savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes. The Nichols family legal team compared the assault to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King. “I’m going to beat you up,” an officer can be heard saying. Body cam shows him raising his baton as at least one other officer supports Nichols.
After the beating, the officers wandered around for several minutes while Nichols he was lying leaning against the car. Later, he collapsed in the street.
Nichols’ relatives have urged American society to protest peacefully, although some altercations have already taken place in Times Square, New York, in the early hours of this Saturday, where there have been clashes between police and protesters. “This young man, by definition of the law in this state, I was terrified. Not by one, not by two, but by five officers that we now know…acted together,” said attorney Antonio Romanucci, who represents the Nichols family.
The officers “they acted together… to inflict damageterrorism, oppression of freedom, oppression of constitutional rights, which led to the murder,” he asserted.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis has described the officers’ actions as “heinous, reckless and inhumane”, and said his department has not been able to substantiate the reckless driving charge that led to the arrest.
As indicated in an interview with ‘The Associated Press’, there is no video of the traffic stop showing Nichols driving recklessly. During the initial stop, video shows officers were “aggressive, loud, used profanity and they probably scared Mr. Nichols from the start.”
“We know that something happened before this officer or these officers got out of their vehicles…just knowing the nature of officers, it takes something to get them excited, you know, like that. we don’t know what happened“He has exposed, assuring that the only thing that is known is that the force used was “excessive”.
Source: Lasexta
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