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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2023 19:37:17 GMT
Family and mourners gather for Tyre Nichols’ funeral. Nichols died following a confrontation with Memphis police. George Floyd’s family and White House officials are scheduled to attend as Rev. Al Sharpton delivers a eulogy. abcn.ws/3jr7LBRWATCH LIVE: Funeral held for Tyre Nichols in Memphis | ABC News
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2023 22:31:55 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2023 18:40:09 GMT
In his eulogy for Tyre Nichols on Wednesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton singled out the five Black Memphis police officers indicted for their roles in Nichols's death. Noting that the alleged crimes took place not far from the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on April 4, 1968, while waging a protest campaign to try to ensure the safety of Black workers in the city, Sharpton drew a line connecting the legacy of the slain civil rights hero to the killing of Nichols. “The reason why, Mr. and Mrs. Wells [Nichols’s stepfather and mother], what happened to Tyre is so personal to me is that five Black men that wouldn’t have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad in the city that Dr. King lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death,” Sharpton said in his address. "There's nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors that you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through them doors," Sharpton added. "You didn’t get on the police department by yourself. The police chief didn’t get there by herself. People had to march and go to jail, and some lost their lives to open the doors for you, and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing!” Sharpton’s remarks come amid a debate about whether Nichols’s killing should be seen as another example of racism against Black Americans given that Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr., the officers indicted for second-degree murder, aggravated assault and two charges of aggravated kidnapping, are all also Black. On Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., noted that the city is “Democrat-controlled and the five officers that have been arrested and charged are Black. And I think that this isn’t an issue of racism or anything like that.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2023 5:06:47 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2023 16:59:23 GMT
All five former officers appearing in court over the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith appeared sombre as they stood in front of the judge.
They are now due back in court on 1 May.
Video footage captured by police bodycams and CCTV cameras showed Mr Nichols, a black man, being beaten by officers following a traffic stop. He died from his injuries.
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