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‘Seared in our memories’: outpouring of shock and horror over Tyre Nichols’s video

Recording of the 29-year-old’s killing has sent shockwaves across the US, with the officers’ conduct being condemned

The Guardian - US · Jan 28, 2023

City of Memphis releases footage of police fatally beating Tyre Nichols

Memphis has braced for the footage after warnings it shows officers beating Nichols.

Axios · Jan 28, 2023

Ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder in beating of Tyre Nichols; video to be released Friday

Five former police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, were charged with second-degree murder Thursday in the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 27, 2023

Erik Cantu’s family reveal horror injuries after police officer shot him as he ate McDonalds

‘He’s just mutilated and it hurts us to see our son this way,’ mother says

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022

San Bernardino police shot Robert Adams seven times from behind, autopsy suggests

Preliminary findings from an independent autopsy suggest that a 23-year-old man who was killed by police in San Bernardino, California, last month was shot seven times from behind.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 21, 2022

Brianna Grier: Gruesome new details revealed in death of Black woman who fell out of police car

Dr Allecia Wilson said that Ms Grier had sustained two fractures on the left side of her skull, and several hematomas and hemorrhages consistent with blunt force trauma

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2022

Brianna Grier: Bodycam footage released of woman who died after falling out of police car

‘Brianna’s family had faith in law enforcement to get her the help she needed, and now they are being forced to grieve her completely unnecessary death’, civil rights lawyer says

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2022

Father of teen who fell to his death from Florida theme park ride accuses authorities of racism

‘I refuse to let this thing go under the rug because my son didn’t deserve it,’ Yarnell Sampson said at a news conference next to the Free Fall ride in Orlando

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2022

Tyre Sampson’s father, attorneys say Free Fall ride death being swept ‘under the rug’

ORLANDO, Fla. — On Friday, two days before Father’s Day, Juneteenth and his birthday, Yarnell Sampson visited the Orlando Free Fall ride in ICON Park.

Orlando Sentinel · Jun 20, 2022

Commentary: Fight hate with speech, not with censorship

The man accused of killing 10 African Americans at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was virulently antisemitic as well as a racist. Indeed, he blamed Jews for the so-called “great replacement” — a belief based on a racist conspiracy theory that nonwhite people are being used to replace white people.

Chicago Tribune · May 20, 2022