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The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

Tyre Nichols’s death after police encounter was ‘failing of basic humanity’, says Memphis chief

Police cars in Memphis, Tennessee, where Tyre Nichols allegedly suffered a three-minute beating following a traffic stop.
Police cars in Memphis, Tennessee, where Tyre Nichols allegedly suffered a three-minute beating following a traffic stop. Photograph: Mark Weber/AP

The police chief of Memphis, Tennessee has described the circumstances surrounding the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days after a 7 January encounter with police, as “heinous, reckless, and inhumane”.

“Aside from being your chief of police, I am a citizen of this community, we share; I am a mother, I am a caring human being who wants the best for all of us; this is not just a professional failing,” CJ Davis said in a video statement released on YouTube.

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