Tyre Nichols' mom is hopeful Congress will make good on what came across as a promise during President Biden's State of the Union address.
by multiple Memphis PD officers so badly during a Jan. 7 traffic stop ... he died 3 days later in a hospital bed.Since his death, police have released gruesome video of the brutal beating ... which stirred outrage and multipleFive Black officers were immediately fired, and later charged with second-degree murder.
Other firefighters and officers who responded to the scene without rendering timely assistance to Tyre have also been fired, but no one else has been criminally charged.Tyre's family has vowed to join the renewed push for legislators to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing act ... which was defeated in a 2021 Senate vote.
As RowVaughn and Ben put it ... now it's on both aisles of Congress to come together to"show humanity" so we don't have another Tyre.
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