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What happens next in Tyre Nichols case?

Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith are to be sentenced in a federal trial expected later this year

The Independent UK · May 8, 2025

Tyre Nichols remembered as beautiful soul with creative eye

Tyre Nichols was brutally attacked by police in Memphis after they pulled him over Jan. 7, 2023

The Independent UK · May 7, 2025

Ex-officer testifies he beat a 'helpless' Tyre Nichols then lied about it

A former Memphis police officer has testified that he punched a “helpless” Tyre Nichols at least five times while two colleagues held his arms and urged him on during the January 2023 fatal beating

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2024

Family of Tyre Nichols sues Memphis officials, police officers

The $550-million lawsuit in the US compares the Nichols beating to that of Emmett Till, a Black boy murdered in 1955.

Al Jazeera · Apr 19, 2023

Family of slain Black man Tyre Nichols bring fight for justice from Memphis to NYC

NEW YORK — The devastated parents of the Black man killed in a caught-on-video beating by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers recounted the horrors of his death Saturday during a Harlem visit where they once more demanded justice for their slain son.

Tribune News Service · Mar 18, 2023

Former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death plead not guilty

Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the eye in court.

France 24 · Feb 18, 2023

Canopy at Memphis riverside park named after Tyre Nichols

A charitable foundation has named a Memphis park canopy for Tyre Nichols, who died last month after he was brutally beaten by officers

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2023

Tyre Nichols: United Nations appeal calls for ‘urgent action’ following police killing

Exclusive: ‘We demand the immediate arrest of Preston Hemphill, and all of the other officers who took any action that contributed to the death of Tyre Nichols,’ attorney tells The Independent

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2023

Joe Biden tells Kyre Nichols’s parents ‘we have to do better’ in State of the Union address to America

“What happened to Tyre in Memphis happens too often’, the US President says in speech to Congress

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2023

State of the Union 2023: Joe Biden calls for unity as he urges Congress to finish economic fightback

US president called on Republicans and Democrats to work together in Congress but still faced some heckling

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2023