U.S. authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, Tennessee, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.
Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on Jan. 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving.
After a chase ensued, “police brutalized him to the point of being unrecognizable,” family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement.
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