BREAKING NEWS: 5 Memphis Police officers Has Been Charged For Tyre Nichols death
(MEMPHIS, TN) BREAKING NEWS: Five former Memphis Police Department officers who were fired following the arrest of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died days after a forceful traffic stop, have been charged with second-degree murder and booked into the Shelby County jail.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said officials will release footage of Nichols’ arrest Friday after 7 p.m. ET.
Mulroy said former officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith, who are also Black men, were each also charged with aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
Mulroy said his office met with the Nichols’ family before the charges were filed. He said the investigation into and prosecutorial decision against the five officers were expedited “because of the extraordinary nature of the case.”
“The actions of all of them resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols and they are all responsible,” the district attorney said.
The Memphis Police Department said in an initial release on Nichols’ arrest that he was taken to the hospital “in critical condition” after two confrontations between officers and him after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.
