Officials on Friday released harrowing video footage showing police beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month, leading to injuries from which he later died.
On January 7, five police officers attempted to arrest Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, after pulling him over while driving. The incident escalated into a physical altercation that resulted in Nichols’s hospitalisation, state investigators said. He died three days later.
The five officers involved, who were fired following Nichols’s death, were indicted by a grand jury in Memphis’s Shelby County on Thursday for second-degree murder, among other charges related to the killing.