Desmond Mills Jr. pleaded guilty to both federal and state charges for the beating death of Tyre Nichols.
Ex-Memphis cop Desmond Mills Jr. pled guilty to both federal and state charges on Thursday for the beating death of Tyre Nichols.Mills, 33, became the first of five former Memphis police officers charged in connection with Nichols' death to agree to a deal. Mills pleaded guilty to federal charges of excessive force and obstruction of justice in the federal case in addition to the related state charges.
Five former Memphis police officers – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith – were charged in his death. The officers were members of an infamous group – the SCORPION unit – created by the Memphis police to fight street crime. Three weeks after Nichols' death, Memphis police announced the unit had been disbanded and 'permanently deactivated.
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