Five Memphis Police Department officers have been fired for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid, stemming from an arrest during a traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital, officials said.
The police chief said Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith were involved in the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, who was Black. The Memphis Police Department conducted an internal
into the arrest of Nichols, who died three days later, and the discipline came after the probe’s conclusion, authorities said. The five officers who were fired are all Black, according to the Memphis Police public information officer. The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also is looking into the force used in the arrest.and the National Civil Rights Museum, have pushed for the release of police body camera footage and have called for officers to be charged.
Relatives have accused police of beating Nichols and causing him to have a heart attack. Authorities have said that Nichols experienced a medical emergency.
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