6th Memphis Police Officer Suspended in Tyre Nichols Death - The New York Times

U.S.|6th Memphis Police Officer Suspended successful Tyre Nichols Death

MEMPHIS — The Memphis Police Department confirmed connected Monday that a sixth serviceman had been taken disconnected work successful transportation with the decease of Tyre Nichols.

Five officers were fired by the section earlier this month, soon aft being placed connected leave, and charged past week with second-degree murder successful transportation with Mr. Nichols’s death. The sixth officer, Preston Hemphill, has been placed connected administrative leave; it is not wide precisely what relation helium played successful the encounter.

A spokesperson for the section confirmed connected Monday that Mr. Hemphill was placed connected permission connected the aforesaid time that the different officers were suspended.

Police officers kicked Mr. Nichols successful the head, pepper-sprayed him and deed him repeatedly with a baton aft pulling him over, purportedly for reckless driving, connected the nighttime of Jan. 7, adjacent arsenic helium showed nary signs of warring back connected the videos of the incidental released connected Friday. Mr. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died successful a infirmary 3 days aft the encounter.

Officer Hemphill’s lawyer, Lee Gerald, said successful a connection that 1 of the 4 videos of the brushwood that were released by the metropolis connected Friday, labeled Video 1, came from Officer Hemphill’s assemblage camera.

“He was ne'er contiguous astatine the 2nd scene,” wherever officers caught up with Mr. Nichols aft a little ft pursuit and bushed him severely, Mr. Gerald said of Officer Hemphill. He added that his lawsuit “is cooperating with officials successful this investigation.”

Others progressive successful the Jan. 7 brushwood person besides been taken disconnected duty. The Memphis Fire Department suspended 2 of its exigency aesculapian technicians who treated Mr. Nichols, a spokeswoman for the department, Qwanesha Ward, said connected Friday, adding that an probe into their actions was expected to beryllium completed this week.

And 2 Shelby County sheriff’s deputies person been relieved of work pending an probe into their engagement successful the encounter, Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said connected Friday night.

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