A timeline of the investigations into Tyre Nichols' death after a traffic stop and arrest by Memphis police - CNN

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Nearly 3 weeks aft a postulation halt successful Memphis resulted successful a convulsive apprehension and consequent decease of a driver, constabulary are expected to merchandise constabulary assemblage camera footage of the incidental to the public.

Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was hospitalized aft the apprehension connected January 7 and died 3 days aboriginal from injuries sustained, according to police. Five officers from the Memphis Police Department, who are besides Black, were fired aft an interior probe and look imaginable transgression charges.

The household of Nichols and attorneys person met with constabulary and metropolis officials to presumption the traffic stop’s video recordings, which person been described arsenic a vicious, prolonged beating that lasted for minutes aft officers chased down a fleeing Nichols.

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis decried the officers’ conduct, adding further officers proceed to beryllium investigated.

“This is not conscionable a nonrecreational failing,” Davis said. “This is simply a failing of basal humanity toward different individual. This incidental was heinous, reckless and inhumane. And successful the vein of transparency, erstwhile the video is released successful the coming days, you volition spot this for yourselves.”

Here’s what we cognize astir the timeline of the incident, investigations from authorities and absorption from Nichols’ family:

On January 7 astatine astir 8:30 p.m., officers pulled implicit a conveyance for suspected reckless driving, according to a connection from Memphis police.

“A confrontation occurred” betwixt officers and the vehicle’s operator – aboriginal identified arsenic Nichols – who past fled connected foot, according to Memphis police. Officers apprehended him and “another confrontation occurred,” resulting successful Nichols’ arrest, constabulary said.

An ambulance was called to the country of the apprehension aft Nichols complained of shortness of breath, constabulary said, and helium was transported to a adjacent infirmary successful captious condition.

On January 10, 3 days aft the stop, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Nichols had died owed to injuries sustained successful the “use-of-force incidental with officers,” according to a statement.

Following the postulation stop, the officers progressive were relieved of work – a modular departmental process portion an probe into their usage of unit began, Memphis constabulary said. The TBI and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office were besides enlisted to investigate.

Preliminary findings indicated the superior quality of the officers’ behaviour during the stop, constabulary said.

“After reviewing assorted sources of accusation involving this incident, I person recovered that it is indispensable to instrumentality contiguous and due action,” Chief Davis said in a statement released January 15. “Today, the section is serving announcement to the officers progressive of the impending administrative actions.”

The section needed to travel a required procedural process earlier disciplining oregon terminating authorities civilian servant employees, the connection added.

In the days aft Nichols’ death, his family’s lawyer Ben Crump repeatedly voiced their tendency for the merchandise of assemblage camera and surveillance footage of the postulation stop.

“This benignant of in-custody decease destroys assemblage spot if agencies are not swiftly transparent,” Crump said successful a statement.

On January 18, the Department of Justice said a civilian rights probe has been opened into the decease of Nichols.

“Last week, Tyre Nichols tragically died, a fewer days aft helium was progressive successful an incidental wherever Memphis Police Department officers utilized unit during his arrest,” Kevin G. Ritz, US Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, said successful a statement.

Acknowledging the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s ongoing efforts, the US Attorney’s bureau “in coordination with the FBI Memphis Field Office and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, has opened a civilian rights investigation,” Ritz said, declining to supply further details.

After its interior investigation, Memphis constabulary identified and fired 5 officers progressive successful the postulation halt owed to their usurpation of aggregate section policies.

Officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr., and Justin Smith were terminated for failing successful their “excessive usage of force, work to intervene, and work to render aid,” the section said successful a statement.

“The egregious quality of this incidental is not a reflection of the bully enactment our officers perform, with integrity each day,” Davis said.

A connection from the Memphis Police Association, the national representing the officers, declined to remark connected the terminations beyond saying that the metropolis of Memphis and Nichols’ household “deserve to cognize the implicit relationship of the events starring up to his decease and what whitethorn person contributed to it.”

Nichols household attorneys Crump and Antonio Romanucci called the firing of the 5 officers “the archetypal measurement towards achieving justness for Tyre and his family.”

Two Memphis Fire Department employees who were portion of Nichols’ “initial diligent care” were besides fired, section Public Information Officer Qwanesha Ward told CNN’s Nadia Romero.

After gathering with officials to ticker the unreleased constabulary video of the arrest, Nichols’ household and their attorneys described their fearfulness astatine what they saw.

“He was defenseless the full time. He was a quality piñata for those constabulary officers. It was an unadulterated, unabashed, nonstop beating of this young lad for 3 minutes. That is what we saw successful that video,” Romanucci said. “Not lone was it violent, it was savage.”

“What I saw connected the video contiguous was horrific,” Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, said Monday. “No father, parent should person to witnesser what I saw today.”

Crump described the video arsenic “appalling,” “deplorable” and “heinous.” He said Ravaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, was incapable to get done viewing the archetypal infinitesimal of the footage aft proceeding Nichols ask, “What did I do?” At the extremity of the footage, Nichols tin beryllium heard calling for his parent 3 times, the lawyer said.

According to preliminary results of an autopsy commissioned by attorneys for his family, Nichols suffered “extensive bleeding caused by a terrible beating.” CNN has requested a transcript of the autopsy, which Crump said volition beryllium disposable erstwhile the afloat study is ready.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office has yet to denote if anyone volition beryllium charged successful the case. District Attorney Steve Mulroy told CNN connected Tuesday his bureau is ensuring each indispensable interviews with those progressive person been conducted earlier the footage’s release.

“A batch of the people’s questions astir what precisely happened will, of course, beryllium answered erstwhile radical spot the video,” Mulroy said, noting helium believes the metropolis volition merchandise capable footage to amusement the “entirety of the incident, from the precise opening to the precise end.”