WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Memphis Police Department said it had suspended a sixth officer when the investigation into the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols opened weeks ago
In the video, it is Hemphill who appears to fire a stun gun at Nichols after Nichols is dragged from his car, forced to the ground and doused with pepper spray before he breaks free and runs away with the officers chasing him.Police caught up to Nichols a short distance away, where additional video clips show officers repeatedly pummeling him with punches, kicks and baton blows before Nichols is finally handcuffed and propped up against the side of a police vehicle.
Instead, after an initial "interaction" with Nichols, the two EMTs called for an ambulance team, who arrived on the scene at 8:55 p.m. and "initiated patient care," the fire department said in its statement. Nichols was transported to a hospital a short time later. In addition to the seven police officers and three fire department personnel implicated in the Nichols encounter, two Shelby County Sheriff's deputies have also been relieved of duty pending an internal review, Sheriff Floyd Bonner said last Friday, after the video was released.
The specialized Scorpion police unit that included the five Memphis officers charged with murder in the case was disbanded on Saturday by the city. It was not immediately clear whether the sixth and seventh officers under investigation belonged to that unit.
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