Five Memphis police officers charged over death of Tyre Nichols

Five erstwhile constabulary officers successful Tennessee person been charged with second-degree execution aft a achromatic antheral died pursuing a postulation stop.

Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped successful Memphis connected 7 January for reckless driving. He died 3 days later.

Officials volition springiness an update aboriginal connected Thursday and video of the apprehension is expected to beryllium released.

The city's constabulary main earlier urged radical to enactment calm erstwhile the footage is made public.

The 5 officers, each of whom joined the Memphis Police Department successful the past six years, were fired past week aft an probe recovered them to beryllium "directly liable for the carnal maltreatment of Mr Nichols".

Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills, Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith are each successful custody, jailhouse records show.

On Wednesday, lawyers for Mr Nichols' household said an autopsy indicated helium had been beaten. "Preliminary findings bespeak Tyre suffered extended bleeding caused by a terrible beating," lawyers Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said.

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