Tyre Nichols' funeral is being held on Wednesday, three weeks after the 29-year-old skateboarder, father, and amateur photographer died following a brutal beating by police after a traffic stop.
. And more discipline could be coming.
Nichols grew up in Sacramento, California, and loved the San Francisco 49ers. He came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck. But he was fine with it because he was with his mother, RowVaughn Wells, and they were incredibly close, she said. He even had her name tattooed on his arm.
"This man walked into a room, and everyone loved him," said Angelina Paxton, a friend who traveled to Memphis from California for the memorial service.The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, will deliver the eulogy at the funeral and Ben Crump, a national civil rights attorney who represents the Nichols family, will deliver a call to action.
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