(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The video footage of Tyre Nichols' interaction with five Memphis police officers is 'appalling,' 'deplorable,' 'heinous,' 'violent' and 'troublesome on every level,' Ben Crump, attorney for the Nichols family, said during a press conference Monday after viewing the bodycam video.
Nakylah Carter, ABC News — The video footage of Tyre Nichols' interaction with five Memphis police officers is"appalling,""deplorable,""heinous,""violent" and"troublesome on every level," Ben Crump, attorney for the Nichols family, said during a press conference Monday after viewing the bodycam video.
Crump and Romanucci said the footage shows that Nichols did not originally run when being approached by officers, and told them that"he was just trying to get home" from FedEx, where he worked, and yelled for his mother three times toward the end of the video. The Memphis man had Crohn's disease and suffered from severe weight loss, according to his family. The appearance of Nichols at the hospital was emotional for his parents.The Memphis Police Department announced on Friday that it fired the five police officers, all Black, involved in the incident, concluding the department's internal investigation.
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