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Memphis police disband unit that beat Tyre Nichols

Memphis police disband unit that beat Tyre Nichols
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Memphis police disband unit that beat Tyre Nichols
The Memphis police chief on Saturday disbanded the unit whose officers beat to death Tyre Nichols as the nation and the city struggled to come to grips with video showing police pummeling the Black motorist.Police Director Cerelyn 맥스카지노CJ맥스카지노 Davis said she listened to Nichols' relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision.맥스카지노It is in the best interest of all to permanently deactivate the Scorpion unit,맥스카지노 she said in a statement. She said the officers currently assigned to the unit 맥스카지노agree unreservedly" with the step.The footage released Friday left many unanswered questions about the traffic stop involving the Black motorist and about other law enforcement officers who stood by as he lay motionless on the pavement.The five disgraced former Memphis Police Department officers, who are also Black, have been fired and charged with murder and other crimes in Nichols맥스카지노 death three days after the arrest.The recording shows police savagely beating Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, for three minutes while screaming profanities at him in an assault that the Nichols family legal team has likened to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King. Nichols calls out for his mother before his limp body is propped against a squad car and the officers exchange fist-bumps.The five officers 맥스카지노 Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith 맥스카지노 face up to 60 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.Davis has said other officers are under investigation, and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said two deputies have been relieved of duty without pay while their conduct is investigated.Rodney Wells, Nichols맥스카지노 stepfather, said the family would 맥스카지노continue to seek justice" and noted that several other officers failed to render aid, making them 맥스카지노just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.맥스카지노A Memphis police spokeswoman declined to comment on the role played by other officers who showed up at the scene.Cities nationwide had braced for demonstrations, but the protests were scattered and nonviolent. Several dozen demonstrators in Memphis blocked the Interstate 55 bridge that carries traffic over the Mississippi River toward Arkansas. Protesters also blocked traffic in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.Blake Ballin, the lawyer for Mills, told The Associated Press in a statement Saturday that the videos 맥스카지노produced as many questions as they have answers.맥스카지노Some of the questions will focus on what Mills 맥스카지노knew and what he was able to see" and whether his actions "crossed the lines that were crossed by other officers during this incident,맥스카지노 Ballin said.The arrest was made by the so-called Scorpion unit, which has three teams of about 30 street officers who target violent offenders in areas beset by high crime, Davis said.Davis acknowledged that the police department has a supervisor shortage and said the lack of a supervisor in the arrest was a 맥스카지노major problem." City officials have pledged to provide more of them.Questions swirled around what led to the traffic stop in the first place. One officer can be heard saying that Nichols wouldn맥스카지노t stop and then swerved as though he intended to hit the officer맥스카지노s car. The officer said that when Nichols pulled up to a red light, the officers jumped out of the car.But Davis said the department cannot substantiate the reason for the stop.맥스카지노We don맥스카지노t know what happened,맥스카지노 she said, adding, 맥스카지노All we know is the amount of force that was applied in this situation was over the top.맥스카지노After the first officer roughly pulls Nichols out of the car, Nichols can be heard saying, 맥스카지노I didn't do anything,맥스카지노 as a group of officers begins to wrestle him to the ground.One officer is heard yelling, 맥스카지노Tase him! Tase him!맥스카지노Nichols calmly says, 맥스카지노OK, I맥스카지노m on the ground."맥스카지노You guys are really doing a lot right now,맥스카지노 Nichols says. 맥스카지노I맥스카지노m just trying to go home.맥스카지노맥스카지노Stop, I맥스카지노m not doing anything!맥스카지노 he yells moments later.Nichols can then be seen running as an officer fires a Taser at him. His mother's home, where he lived, was only a few houses away from the scene of the beating, and his family said he was trying to get there. The officers then start chasing Nichols.Other officers are called, and a search ensues before Nichols is caught at another intersection. The officers beat him with a baton, and kick and punch him.Security camera footage shows three officers surrounding Nichols as he lies in the street cornered between police cars, with a fourth officer nearby.Two officers hold Nichols to the ground as he moves about, and then the third appears to kick him in the head. Nichols slumps more fully onto the pavement with all three officers surrounding him. The same officer kicks him again.The fourth officer then walks over, draws a baton and holds it up at shoulder level as two officers hold Nichols upright, as if he were sitting.맥스카지노I맥스카지노m going to baton the (expletive) out you,맥스카지노 one officer can be heard saying. His body camera shows him raise his baton while at least one other officer holds Nichols. The officer strikes Nichols on the back with the baton three times in a row.The other officers then appear to hoist Nichols to his feet, with him flopping like a doll, barely able to stay upright.An officer then punches him in the face, as the officer with the baton continues to menace him. Nichols stumbles and turns, still held up by two officers. The officer who punched him then walks around to Nichols맥스카지노 front and punches him four more times. Then Nichols collapses.Two officers can then be seen atop Nichols on the ground, with a third nearby, for about 40 seconds. Three more officers then run up, and one can be seen kicking Nichols on the ground.It takes more than 20 minutes after Nichols is beaten and on the pavement before any sort of medical attention is provided.During the wait for an ambulance, officers joked and aired grievances. They complained that a handheld radio was ruined, that someone lost a flashlight and that multiple officers had been caught in the crossfire of the pepper spray used against Nichols.Throughout the videos, officers make claims about Nichols맥스카지노 behavior that are not supported by the footage or that the district attorney and other officials have said did not happen. In one of the videos, an officer claims that during the initial traffic stop Nichols reached for the officer's gun before fleeing and almost had his hand on the handle, which is not shown in the video.After Nichols is in handcuffs and leaning against a police car, several officers say that he must have been high. Later an officer says no drugs were found in his car, and another officer immediately counters that Nichols must have ditched something while he was running away.During a speech Saturday in Harlem, the Rev. Al Sharpton said the beating was particularly egregious because the officers were Black, too.맥스카지노Your Blackness will not stop us from fighting you. These five cops not only disgraced their names, they disgraced our race,맥스카지노 Sharpton said.___Associated Press reporters Aaron Morrison in New York, Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee, and Rebecca Reynolds in Lexington, Kentucky, contributed to this report.

The Memphis police chief on Saturday disbanded the unit whose officers beat to death Tyre Nichols as the nation and the city struggled to come to grips with video showing police pummeling the Black motorist.

Police Director Cerelyn 맥스카지노CJ맥스카지노 Davis said she listened to Nichols' relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision.

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맥스카지노It is in the best interest of all to permanently deactivate the Scorpion unit,맥스카지노 she said in a statement. She said the officers currently assigned to the unit 맥스카지노agree unreservedly" with the step.

The footage released Friday left many unanswered questions about the traffic stop involving the Black motorist and about other law enforcement officers who stood by as he lay motionless on the pavement.

The five disgraced former Memphis Police Department officers, who are also Black, have been fired and and other crimes in Nichols맥스카지노 death .

The recording shows police savagely beating Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, for three minutes while screaming profanities at him in an assault that the Nichols family legal team has likened to the . Nichols calls out for his mother before his limp body is propped against a squad car and the officers exchange fist-bumps.

The five officers 맥스카지노 Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith 맥스카지노 face up to 60 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.

Davis has said other officers are under investigation, and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said two deputies have been relieved of duty without pay while their conduct is investigated.

Rodney Wells, Nichols맥스카지노 stepfather, said the family would 맥스카지노continue to seek justice" and noted that several other officers failed to render aid, making them 맥스카지노just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.맥스카지노

A Memphis police spokeswoman declined to comment on the role played by other officers who showed up at the scene.

Cities nationwide had braced for demonstrations, but the protests were scattered and nonviolent. Several dozen demonstrators in Memphis blocked the Interstate 55 bridge that carries traffic over the Mississippi River toward Arkansas. Protesters also blocked traffic in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.

Blake Ballin, the lawyer for Mills, told The Associated Press in a statement Saturday that the videos 맥스카지노produced as many questions as they have answers.맥스카지노

Some of the questions will focus on what Mills 맥스카지노knew and what he was able to see" and whether his actions "crossed the lines that were crossed by other officers during this incident,맥스카지노 Ballin said.

The arrest was made by the so-called Scorpion unit, which has three teams of about 30 street officers who target violent offenders in areas beset by high crime, Davis said.

Davis acknowledged that the police department has a supervisor shortage and said the lack of a supervisor in the arrest was a 맥스카지노major problem." City officials have pledged to provide more of them.

Questions swirled around what led to the traffic stop in the first place. One officer can be heard saying that Nichols wouldn맥스카지노t stop and then swerved as though he intended to hit the officer맥스카지노s car. The officer said that when Nichols pulled up to a red light, the officers jumped out of the car.

But Davis said the department cannot substantiate the reason for the stop.

맥스카지노We don맥스카지노t know what happened,맥스카지노 she said, adding, 맥스카지노All we know is the amount of force that was applied in this situation was over the top.맥스카지노

After the first officer roughly pulls Nichols out of the car, Nichols can be heard saying, 맥스카지노I didn't do anything,맥스카지노 as a group of officers begins to wrestle him to the ground.

One officer is heard yelling, 맥스카지노Tase him! Tase him!맥스카지노

Nichols calmly says, 맥스카지노OK, I맥스카지노m on the ground."

맥스카지노You guys are really doing a lot right now,맥스카지노 Nichols says. 맥스카지노I맥스카지노m just trying to go home.맥스카지노

맥스카지노Stop, I맥스카지노m not doing anything!맥스카지노 he yells moments later.

Nichols can then be seen running as an officer fires a Taser at him. His mother's home, where he lived, was only a few houses away from the scene of the beating, and his family said he was trying to get there. The officers then start chasing Nichols.

Other officers are called, and a search ensues before Nichols is caught at another intersection. The officers beat him with a baton, and kick and punch him.

Security camera footage shows three officers surrounding Nichols as he lies in the street cornered between police cars, with a fourth officer nearby.

Two officers hold Nichols to the ground as he moves about, and then the third appears to kick him in the head. Nichols slumps more fully onto the pavement with all three officers surrounding him. The same officer kicks him again.

The fourth officer then walks over, draws a baton and holds it up at shoulder level as two officers hold Nichols upright, as if he were sitting.

맥스카지노I맥스카지노m going to baton the (expletive) out you,맥스카지노 one officer can be heard saying. His body camera shows him raise his baton while at least one other officer holds Nichols. The officer strikes Nichols on the back with the baton three times in a row.

The other officers then appear to hoist Nichols to his feet, with him flopping like a doll, barely able to stay upright.

An officer then punches him in the face, as the officer with the baton continues to menace him. Nichols stumbles and turns, still held up by two officers. The officer who punched him then walks around to Nichols맥스카지노 front and punches him four more times. Then Nichols collapses.

Two officers can then be seen atop Nichols on the ground, with a third nearby, for about 40 seconds. Three more officers then run up, and one can be seen kicking Nichols on the ground.

It takes more than 20 minutes after Nichols is beaten and on the pavement before any sort of medical attention is provided.

During the wait for an ambulance, officers joked and aired grievances. They complained that a handheld radio was ruined, that someone lost a flashlight and that multiple officers had been caught in the crossfire of the pepper spray used against Nichols.

Throughout the videos, officers make claims about Nichols맥스카지노 behavior that are not supported by the footage or that the district attorney and other officials have said did not happen. In one of the videos, an officer claims that during the initial traffic stop Nichols reached for the officer's gun before fleeing and almost had his hand on the handle, which is not shown in the video.

After Nichols is in handcuffs and leaning against a police car, several officers say that he must have been high. Later an officer says no drugs were found in his car, and another officer immediately counters that Nichols must have ditched something while he was running away.

During a speech Saturday in Harlem, the Rev. Al Sharpton said the beating was particularly egregious because the officers were Black, too.

맥스카지노Your Blackness will not stop us from fighting you. These five cops not only disgraced their names, they disgraced our race,맥스카지노 Sharpton said.

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Associated Press reporters Aaron Morrison in New York, Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee, and Rebecca Reynolds in Lexington, Kentucky, contributed to this report.