Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends gathered for a funeral that blended a celebration of his life with outrage over the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police and heated calls for police reform.
— also attended the funeral and Nichols’ mother called on officials to prevent more tragedies.
“All of the mothers all over the world need to come together, need to come together to stop all of this," Rachal said. Sharpton said he took his daughter Ashley early Wednesday to the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr. was shot on April 4, 1968. He noted that King was in Memphis to support a strike by city sanitation workers, most of whom were Black.
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