The Scorpion unit has been deactivated after video was released of the brutal beating of the 29-year-old at the hands of officers
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. 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 – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith – 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, Nichols’ stepfather, said the family would “continue to seek justice” and noted that several other officers failed to render aid, making them “just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows”.
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