Video shows Tyre Nichols being beaten by Memphis police

January 28, 2023

Brutal body camera video showing Tyre Nichols being beaten, pepper sprayed and Tasered by multiple cops during a traffic stop earlier this month was released by the Memphis Police Department on Friday.

The FedEx worker — who had no known police record — claims he “didn’t do anything,” as the five black officers attempt to detain him, but before they can cuff him he escapes, leading to a second altercation where they kick, club and beat him, leaving him limp and unconscious.

During the second incident — which took place just 100 yards from his home — the 29-year-old dad, who was also black, repeatedly yells “Mom!” as officers attempt to handcuff him.

Nichols, moaning in pain, says “alright” and appears to give up as the police pin him on his stomach and cuff him. Nichols would succumb to his injuries in the hospital three days later.

Police released footage in the beating death of Tyre Nichols Friday night.

Cops are seen beating Nichols in newly released footage.

Nichols died from his injuries a few days later.

Nichols is seen being tased by cops in the video.

One officer’s bodycam shows him running to the scene and lunging at Nichols.

Street camera views show cops surrounding Nichols.

Video footage of the incident starts with Nichols being pulled over at a red light by officers, who had guns drawn and aggressively attempted to detain him. Later, they would say the reason for the stop was reckless driving.

In the video, they pull Nichols from his car and tell him to get on the ground.

“Alright, alright, alright,” he says repeatedly while complying, as multiple cops grab and force him into place, while yelling.

“I’ll break your s–t, try to f–k around,” an officer yells at him.

All the officers involved were charged with murder.

The officers involved were released on bond after being charged.

Nichols mom spoke out Friday saying Memphis police at first tried to cover up her son's beating. — Nichols mom spoke out Friday saying Memphis police at first tried to cover up her son’s beating.

“You guys are really doing a lot right now. I’m just trying to go home,” Nichols says.

Nichols then frees himself from the officers’ grips — prompting them to pepper spray him and attempt to Taser him as he takes off running down the street toward his home.

Nichols can be heard pleading with officers during the video.

Nichols is seen propped up against a police car after the beating.

Nichols can be heard screaming throughout the video.

The police give chase and bring Nichols to the ground on a street corner, where the most savage part of the beating takes place.

The dad-of-one is repeatedly hit and kicked, dragged to his feet and held back while one cop pounds him with heavy right hooks. One officer walks over, winds up and kicks him. Another cop hits Nichols with a telescopic baton. He also takes multiple punches to the head, some dealt from behind, before crumbling to his knees and then to the ground again.

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“Mom!” he screams out desperately numerous times as they continue.

An officer threatens to “baton the f–k out of” him and hits Nichols multiple times while yelling “give us your hands!”

As more people arrive at the scene, one runs up and kicks Nichols while he’s prostrate on the ground.

A portrait of Tyre Nichols is displayed at a memorial service for him on Tuesday, Jan. 17. — Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker and father, was beaten by a group of police officers after a traffic stop in Memphis on Jan. 7.

Five officers involved — identified as Tadarrius Bean, 24, Demetrius Haley, 30, Emmitt Martin III, 30, Desmond Mills, Jr., 32, and Justin Smith, 28 — were charged with Nichols’ murder and surrendered to law enforcement on Thursday.

They are charged with aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression in addition to second-degree murder.

The cops finally get off Nichols’ back as he lies writhing in pain on the pavement and more officers arrive.

The cops move him up against the side of an unmarked police car where he can be seen slumped over and bloodied as officers shine their flashlights on his face, revealing his eyes to be closed. They then discuss what had just happened, largely ignoring Nichols, who at one point, Nichols slumps ver on his side.

“Man I was hitting him with straight haymakers, dog,” one cop can be heard telling others as they mull around the scene waiting for EMS.

“Hey, sit up bro,” one officer tells him in the footage, after he falls to his side.

Tyre Nichols is pictured in the hospital before his death. — Nichols died in the hospital three days after what his family’s attorney described as a “savage” beating.

For several minutes, Nichols remains cuffed on the ground without any help, at times still twisting in pain, until two responders prop him up for basic treatment.

Roughly 20 minutes after he was put in handcuffs, EMS arrive. He’s then loaded onto a gurney and taken away to the hospital.

Multiple officers accused Nichols of being “high” on drugs and one officer claimed he attempted to reach for a gun, footage shows. These claims have been called into question by lawyers for his family.

Memphis police officers (L-R) Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills, Jr., Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith and Tadarrius Bean were fired for their roles in Nichols’ arrest.

All five officers who have been charged were sprung from the Shelby County Jail Friday morning after each posted between $250,000 and $350,000 bail.

They were fired from the department last Friday after an internal investigation found they used excessive force and failed their duties to intervene and render aid.

The distressing footage was made public just days after being shown privately to Nichols’ family and their legal team, who likened the man’s beating to that of Rodney King at the hands of Los Angeles police officers in 1991.

Tyre Nichols is seen in an undated photo. — Nichols was driving home from a park when he was pulled over, allegedly for driving in a reckless manner.

Prior to the recording’s release, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis described the incident as “heinous, reckless and inhumane” — but at the same time urged the community not to lash out in violence in response to the video.

Nichols was driving home on Jan. 7 after taking sunset photos in a suburban park when he was pulled over.

Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, was shown the footage ahead of its release and said she has been unable to watch the whole video, but several people described it for her.

“All I heard my son say was, ‘What did I do?’ I just lost it from there,’’ she told CNN.

Tyre Nichols bodycam police arrest — Nichols’ family has pleaded for peaceful protests ahead of the release of bodycam video of the incident Friday evening.

She recalled how in the video her son was “beat like a piñata.”

In a video statement Wednesday, Chief Davis said the five cops “were found to be directly responsible” for Nichols’ death.

Relatives have accused the police of causing Nichols — who had battled Crohn’s disease and despite being 6′ 3″ weighed just 150lbs — to have a heart attack and kidney failure. However, his official cause of death has yet to be released, almost three weeks after his arrest.

The Nichols family also pleaded for peaceful protests as activists in Memphis, New York City, Los Angeles and other cities across the country took to the streets.

President Joe Biden joined the family in their call for peaceful protests: “Outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable,” he said in a written statement. “Violence is destructive and against the law. It has no place in peaceful protests seeking justice.”