Five Memphis Police Department officers have been fired for excessive use of force, duty to intervene and duty to render aid — stemming from an arrest during a traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital, officials said Friday.
The police chief said Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr and Justin Smith were involved in the 7 January arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29. The Memphis Police Department conducted an internal investigation into the arrest of Nichols, who died three days later, and the discipline came after the probe's conclusion, authorities said.
