2023-09-12 21:53:00
After Tire Nichols’ death, further charges once morest five US police officers
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The video of the death of 29-year-old African-American Tire Nichols is causing horror in the USA. The five ex-police officers charged with murder now also have to answer in a federal case for a cover-up.
The US federal judiciary has brought charges once morest five former police officers who beat African-American Tire Nichols to death in Memphis in January. In the indictment now decided, the five men are accused of violating Nichols’ civil rights. They are also said to have conspired to cover up their crime and made false statements. For example, the defendants did not inform the operations management at headquarters or their superiors regarding their actions during the check.
“The country watched in horror as Tire Nichols was kicked, punched, Tasered and pepper-sprayed,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a video. “And we all heard him screaming for his mother and saying, ‘I’m just trying to go home.'”
Nichols was beaten by five police officers during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 7th. The 29-year-old died in hospital three days later. Videos of the incident were released weeks later, sparking outrage and horror.
The accused are African Americans
The five police officers – like the victim, also African American – were fired and charged with second-degree murder by the local Memphis justice system. In Tennessee, this is an intermediate level between manslaughter and murder. Now there was an additional charge at the federal judicial level.
Cases of police violence once morest black people in the USA have repeatedly caused protests. Often, although not in the Nichols case, the perpetrators are white police officers. The best-known case in recent years is the killing of George Floyd in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2020. The white police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into the neck of Floyd, who was arrested and lying on the ground, for more than nine minutes .
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