MEMPHIS, Tennessee: Five fired Memphis police officers on Friday (Feb 17) pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the beating of Tyre Nichols, a black man whose death three days later stirred outrage and fresh calls for reform.
captured images of the officers beating and kicking Nichols, hitting him with a baton, spraying him with pepper spray and firing a stun gun at him on Jan 7 following a traffic stop. The case has renewed a national conversation about race relations and police brutality.
"I am numb, just numb as I can be right now," Nichols' mother RowVaughn Wells said as she walked into the courtroom dress in all black as she held the hand of Ben Crump, the family's attorney."They need to see my face. A sixth officer, who is white, was also fired, as have three fire department emergency medical technicians who arrived after Nichols was beaten. Two Shelby County sheriff's deputies who responded to the scene were suspended five days without pay.Nichols - a 29-year-old father, avid skateboarder and student of photography - attempted to converse with police as they shouted orders and threatened him with violence during the ordeal.
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