Memphis police named and fired all five Black officers involved on 20 January, but waited to reveal Preston Hemphill’s identity
Questions have been raised over why Memphis police waited weeks to name a white police officer involved in the beating death of
A copy of a police report written hours after Nichols’s beating mentions that Hemphill used a stun gun on Nichols. A photo of the police report first appeared on social media after being posted by the Memphis talkshow host Thaddeus Matthews, who is known as the the Cussing Pastor and said a source had provided it to him. The district attorney, Steven Mulroy, reportedly told theon Monday that his office had a police report the same as the one contained in the photograph posted by Matthews.
According to Crump, the footage – including from officer body cameras – also captures Hemphill saying of colleagues at the scene: “I hope they stomp his ass.”Crump criticized Memphis police for waiting to name Hemphill, who has not yet been fired or charged with a crime.a statement“We have asked from the beginning that the Memphis police department be transparent with the family and the community – this news seems to indicate that they haven’t risen to the occasion.
Rudolph said the internal investigation had initially focused on the five officers who were at the “second scene” where Nichols was assaulted. Nichols had fled from a traffic stop after being dragged from his car at that initial scene. The fire chief, Gina Sweat, said in a statement that the department had received a call from police to respond to a report of a person who had been pepper-sprayed, and the workers arrived as Nichols was handcuffed and leaning up against a squad car.
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