Five officers fired last week from the Memphis Police Department face murder and other charges in the death earlier this month of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, jail records show.
Funeral arrangements announced for Tyre NicholsNichols is expected to be laid to rest on Wednesday, Feb. 1, according toThe Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis is where the funeral is expected to take place at 10:30 a.m. CT , according to a news release obtained byThe service is expected to be live-streamed on the church’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
“My son loved me to death, and I know that was a bad word but that’s how he felt. He had my name tattooed in his arm, and that made me proud because most kids don’t put their mom’s name but he did. My son was a beautiful soul, and he touched everyone.”Update 1:55 p.m. EST Jan. 27: Family attorney Ben Crump, who viewed the video alongside other attorneys and family members on Monday, said that Nichols’ used his last words to call for his mother.Wells said that she felt a bad pain in her stomach on the night of Jan. 7 which she later attributed to feeling her son’s pain.
“We must recognize that and do something about it,” he said. “I call on all chiefs in this country to review their saturation units, to review their special squad units, because they can easily become corrupted when they are told — they are whispered in their ear — act with impunity.” “We believe that this was a pattern and practice, and Tyre is dead because that pattern and practice went unchecked by the people who were supposed to check that,” he said.
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