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Tyre Nichols, whose convulsive apprehension and consequent decease prompted wide grief and outrage, volition beryllium laid to remainder Wednesday successful Memphis. Nichols died connected Jan. 10, 3 days aft helium was beaten by police astatine a postulation stop. Five officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder.
The work astatine Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church began astatine 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. section time) aft a hold owed to upwind conditions.
Vice President Kamala Harris planned to attend the service, the White House announced Tuesday, on with respective different medication officials.
Rev. Al Sharpton volition present the eulogy, and civilian rights lawyer Ben Crump is expected to present a "call for justice," according to the ceremonial programme obtained by CBS News. Members of Nichols' household volition besides speak.
"People from astir the satellite watched the videotape of a antheral unarmed, unprovoked, being bushed to decease by officers of the law," Sharpton said successful a quality league Tuesday.
Nichols, who was 29 years old, worked for FedEx and had a 4-year-old son. He grew up successful Sacramento but moved to Memphis close earlier the pandemic to articulation his parent and stepfather.
"My lad loved maine to death, and I emotion him to death," his mother, RowVaughn Wells, told CBS News, sharing that her lad had a tattoo of her sanction connected his arm. A self-described "aspiring photographer," his household said helium loved photographing landscapes and sunsets.
Tyre Nichols, seen successful a photograph provided by his family.
Courtesy of the Nichols household via AP
Friends from his younker successful California shared memories of him with CBS Sacramento. Nichols was an avid skateboarder, and his person Jerome Neal described him arsenic "well-loved" astatine his section skate park.
"He conscionable touches anybody who gets astir him," different friend, Austin Robert, told the station. "He's a fantastic idiosyncratic and that's however I truly privation everybody to retrieve him."
"It's honestly beauteous devastating to spot specified a bully quality spell done specified unnecessary brutality, specified unnecessary death," Brian Jang, a person of Nichols' from Memphis, told CBS News.
Nichols was connected his mode location erstwhile helium was pulled implicit the nighttime of Jan. 7 — allegedly for reckless driving, though the constabulary main aboriginal said nary grounds was recovered to enactment that. Disturbing bodycam footage and surveillance camera video released by the metropolis connected Friday showed him being punched, kicked and capsicum sprayed.
He died Jan. 10 of what his stepfather, Rodney Wells, said was a cardiac apprehension and kidney failure. An authoritative origin of decease has not been released, but the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said helium "succumbed to his injuries."
Five Memphis constabulary officers were fired and are facing charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, authoritative misconduct and authoritative oppression. Two different officers were relieved of duty, authorities said, and three members of the Memphis Fire Department who responded to the country were fired. Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said 2 deputies person besides been relieved of duty.
"The bittersweet world is constabulary brutality volition beryllium an ever-present menace for Black and Brown Americans unless cops continually spot that those who usage blunt unit volition spell to jail. They request to recognize that a badge isn't a shield that lets them termination idiosyncratic during a postulation stop," Sharpton said successful a statement pursuing the merchandise of the constabulary footage. "And the lone mode to bash that is done convictions and legislation. I convey the Justice Department for opening a civilian rights probe and impulse its lawyers to beryllium swift and transparent. Our full federation indispensable travel unneurotic to condemn this grotesque usurpation of quality rights."
Tyre Nichols' death, and a mother's pain
With the merchandise of bodycam and surveillance camera video, the federation witnessed the savage beating by Memphis constabulary officers of Tyre Nichols, a Black antheral who pleaded for his life. One who did not ticker was Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, who said she felt the symptom of her lad arsenic helium was being assaulted. Correspondent Lee Cowan reports for CBS "Sunday Morning" — ticker the video below:
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