Footage shows Memphis police brutally beating Tyre Nichols

Footage of a postulation halt that has seen 5 ex-Memphis constabulary officers charged with execution appears to amusement them taking turns to brutally footwear and punch a motorist.

Tyre Nichols, 29, is heard crying retired repeatedly for his parent during the apprehension successful Memphis connected 7 January.

The footage shows constabulary officers shouting profanities and beating the FedEx idiosyncratic for astir 3 minutes.

Protests are planned connected Friday nighttime successful Memphis and different US cities.

Police initially said Mr Nichols had been stopped connected suspicion of reckless driving, which has not been substantiated. He died successful infirmary 3 days later, connected 10 January.

Mr Nichols was black, arsenic are each 5 officers charged successful the case.

US President Joe Biden said successful a statement: "Like truthful many, I was outraged and profoundly pained to spot the horrific video of the beating that resulted successful Tyre Nichols' death."

Memphis Police Department released 4 graphic videos of the postulation halt and its convulsive aftermath connected Friday, totalling much than an hr of footage.

The archetypal clip shows officers pulling Mr Nichols retired of his conveyance and shouting astatine him to get connected the ground.

"I didn't bash anything!" helium says. Officers request that helium prevarication down flat.

"Get connected the [expletive] ground!" 1 serviceman shouts, arsenic different is heard saying: "Tase him!"

An serviceman shouts: "Put your hands down your backmost earlier I interruption your [expletive]."

"You guys are truly doing a batch close now," Mr Nichols says to the officers. "I'm conscionable trying to spell home."

Within seconds 1 of the officers fires a Taser astatine him, and Mr Nichols leaps up and manages to tally away.

A 2nd video appears to amusement the presumption from a CCTV camera connected a rod crossed the thoroughfare of a residential area, arsenic 2 officers clasp Mr Nichols down portion others instrumentality turns kicking and punching him and striking him with what appears to beryllium a baton.

They resistance him crossed the crushed and prop him sitting up against a squad car.

The 3rd and 4th videos amusement constabulary assemblage camera footage of the beating, with Mr Nichols being held down, pepper-sprayed and assaulted arsenic helium repeatedly shouts: "Mom!"

Mr Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, has said her lad was lone astir 70 metres (230ft) from location erstwhile Memphis constabulary officers "murdered him".

The Nichols household attorneys person compared the battle to the infamous 1991 constabulary beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.

The 5 officers - Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III, and Justin Smith - were fired past week.

They were taken into custody connected Thursday and each faces charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, authoritative misconduct and authoritative oppression.

Four of the 5 posted bail and were released from custody by Friday morning, according to jailhouse records.

Lawyers for Mr Martin and Mr Mills person said their clients volition plead not guilty.

Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis described the officers' actions arsenic "heinous, reckless and inhumane".

With protests anticipated, she told US media that section officials had decided to merchandise the video connected Friday evening truthful that schoolchildren and commuters would person clip to get home.

Rallies and demonstrations were planned connected Friday nighttime successful New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, and Portland, Oregon.