Tyre Nichols’ killing has led to the murder charges and incarceration of 5 former Memphis police officers.

Numerous charges, including second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression, are brought against Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith.

All of the fired officers are Black, like Nichols.

Cerelyn Davis, the chief of the Memphis Police Department, spoke in a video statement on Wednesday about “the horrible circumstances” surrounding Nichols’ passing.
The act was “heinous, dangerous, and brutal,” she claimed, calling it a professional failure.

Prosecutors announced the five policemen’ indictments at a news conference. Tyre Nichols, who died a few days after a traffic encounter on January 7, was beaten to death by five former Memphis police officers, who have now been charged and placed in jail.

Because of the extraordinary nature of this case, we did move swiftly to speed this investigation, Mulroy added. “We worked quickly and fairly, taking care to make sure we have a good case,”

Three days after being pulled over by Memphis police for careless driving, Nichols passed away on January 10. The 29-year-old allegedly ran away from the site of the traffic check but was later apprehended after two “confrontations” with cops, according to the police.

Following his detention, Nichols reported having trouble breathing and was brought to the hospital in critical condition, according to the authorities. According to his family, the cops beat him so severely that he was unrecognizably him.

Police stopped Black guy Tyre Nichols, 29, for allegedly driving recklessly.

Tyre was stopped two minutes from home, according to Rowvaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, who also claims that he was in the neighbourhood.

Officials claimed that Nichols was approached by Memphis police, who then fled.

The body camera footage of the incident, according to the family’s attorneys, demonstrates that Nichols did not initially flee as the officers approached him. They claim that Nichols called for his mother three times at the end of the video and told police that “he was simply trying to go home” from his job at FedEx. Public access to the body camera footage is still pending.

Nichols “complained of having a shortness of breath” after the event and was taken by EMS to St. Francis Hospital in Memphis in critical condition, according to police.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office was called because of Nichols’ condition, and TBI special agents were then asked to carry out a use-of-force inquiry, according to the TBI.

The TBI’s investigation, the Memphis Police Department announced at the time, “officers involved would be routinely relieved of duty pending the result.”