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The funeral for Tyre Nichols is taking place Wednesday in Memphis, Tennessee, and is expected to draw family, friends and civil rights activists

The Independent UK

What time is Tyre Nichols’ funeral and who is attending?

Black FedEx driver who died from his injuries after being savagely beaten by police officers to be laid to rest in Memphis, Tennessee, with US vice president and civil rights leaders in attendance

The Independent UK

'We're all Tyre': Family prepares to lay Nichols to rest

The family of Tyre Nichols plans to lay him to rest Wednesday, three weeks after he died following a brutal beating by Memphis police after a traffic stop

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What was Tyre Nichols pulled over for?

Reasons for the traffic stop that led to the violent arrest and death of the 29-year-old Black man have been inconsistent

The Independent UK

Ghosts of police reform past haunt a newly divided Congress

The release of footage showing Memphis, Tennessee, police officers violently beating Tyre Nichols has renewed calls for Congress to pass police reform legislation

The Independent UK

Editorial: Nichols' death shows complexities of police violence — and urgency of reform

The fact that the five Memphis former police officers accused in the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols are themselves Black could actually clarify the issue of police violence, which is more complicated than just a few bigoted white cops. It highlights that policing in America is in desperate…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tyre Nichols' funeral in Memphis brings calls for justice

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy, called for justice for Nichols and lamented the fact that Nichols was killed in the same city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

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Michelle Deal-Zimmerman: We’ve seen enough of America’s brutal policing

At 7:01 p.m. Friday night I heard the breaking news alert on my phone that signaled the public release of the video showing five Memphis Police officers beating, restraining and ultimately killing 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Message from Memphis: Policing is more than Black and white

Along with our heartfelt sympathies for their loss, we extend our gratitude and admiration to the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old father who died three days after a sickeningly savage police beating in Memphis on Jan. 7.

Chicago Tribune

Tyre Nichols – updates: Mourners honour ‘beautiful person’ at Memphis funeral as family urges Congress to act

Video footage shows 29-year-old Black man beaten by Memphis officers

The Independent UK

Al Sharpton calls police ‘gangbangers’ as Tyre Nichols family demands justice at MLK ‘mountaintop’ church

Funeral will be held in Memphis on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Police beating victim Tyre Nichols to be laid to rest in Memphis

Memphis (AFP) - An African American man who died after he was brutally beaten by police in the southern US city of Memphis will be laid to rest Wednesday, as the shockwaves from his death keep pulsating across the country.

AFP

Tyre Nichols: U.S. police violence stems from a long history of fighting 'internal enemies'

Many of the details surrounding the recent fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tenn., are still unknown or disputed. The rest may seem confusing.

The Conversation

Memphis' SCORPION unit among many to draw scrutiny in US

Police departments across the country deploy plainclothes squads of officers in unmarked cars to tackle increasing crime rates or get guns off the street

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ABC News

The death of Tyre Nichols after an encounter with the Memphis Police Scorpion unit has left the city reeling

Tyre Nichols's death has shone a light on a specialised policing unit that was supposed to help prevent violent crime in Memphis. WARNING: Readers might find some details in this story distressing.

Axios

Deadly ice storm coats roads, airport runways from Dallas to Memphis as power outages mount

The storm is sending repeated waves of sleet, freezing rain and snow surging northeast from Texas.

The Guardian - US

Tyre Nichols death: white officer’s belated suspension raises questions

Memphis police named and fired all five Black officers involved on 20 January, but waited to reveal Preston Hemphill’s identity

Reuters

VP Harris to attend Nichols funeral as prosecutors weigh more charges

Vice President Kamala Harris will attend Wednesday's funeral of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who died three days after Memphis police officers savagely beat him following a traffic stop earlier this month, the White House said on Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

Initial Memphis police report falsely claims Tyre Nichols ‘fought’ officers

Memphis police claimed in an incident report that Tyre Nichols was ‘irate’, refused arrest, fought officers and tried to steal a gun from one.

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols' family to address additional police discipline

The family of Tyre Nichols plans speak about the latest developments in the case, including the suspension of two officers and the firing of three emergency responders

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How can we get justice for Tyre Nichols and other victims of police brutality?

On Jan. 7, Memphis police officers stopped 29-year-old Tyre Nichols for a traffic violation and then beat him so viciously that he was hospitalized and died three days later.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: What the Tyre Nichols videos don’t show

The videos of Memphis, Tennessee, police pulling Tyre Nichols from his car and beating him show a gratuitous and vicious assault on an unarmed motorist who appears to try his best to cooperate. There are also things the videos of the fatal Jan. 7 traffic stop don't show, despite efforts…

WEKU

Police statements tell the first version of an incident. Then video footage comes out

Memphis authorities initially said Tyre Nichols was taken into custody after two "confrontations" with police. Video footage released later shows Nichols being fatally beaten by officers.

Tribune News Service

Leonard Greene: Add stupid to the list of charges against the Memphis cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death

My father was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee.

Los Angeles Times

Erika D. Smith: In comparing Tyre Nichols to Rodney King, we're missing this point about policing

LOS ANGELES — Lora Dene King had no intention of watching even five minutes of Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols.

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