Initial Police Report on Tyre Nichols Arrest Is Contradicted by Videos

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-arrest-videos.html

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MEMPHIS — The videos show a brutal beating in which a group of Memphis police officers repeatedly kicked and punched Tyre Nichols after they yanked him from his car, shouted a series of threats and orders, and then pushed him to the ground while he pleaded for them to stop.
But in an official account written up by a police officer only hours after the beating, Mr. Nichols, 29, is described as an irate suspect who refused to comply with police officers’ directions and “started to fight” with them, even reaching for one of their guns.

The videos that were released on Friday do not show Mr. Nichols fighting with officers, let alone reaching for any of their guns.

Instead, they show Mr. Nichols, a FedEx employee and father, pleading with the police to stop in the moments before they deploy pepper spray in his face. At that point, Mr. Nichols gets up and runs away as an officer fires a Taser at him. When officers catch up with him, less than 100 yards from his mother’s house, they tackle and severely beat him, delivering powerful punches, a series of kicks and several swings of a baton. At no point does he appear to strike back.

The police report was the latest instance in which video evidence — whether from body camera footage or a bystander’s cellphone — offered a starkly different account of police violence than what officers had reported themselves. In Minneapolis, for example, the police said in May 2020 that George Floyd had died following a “medical incident,” a description that was soon challenged by a teenager’s cellphone video, leading to international protests against police abuse and charges against four officers. Five Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in Mr. Nichols’s death.

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1. you mean, oh my god, don't tell me, cops lied trying to cover their asses.

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2. He was Running for his LIFE!!

The POS Hemphill who Tasered Tyre Nichols should be Charged too!

So the POS 5 were Lying their GD heads OFF.. they knew they were Killing Nichols.