Charges in the Memphis Police beating that killed a Black Man: Tyre Nichols, a young black man, and their lawyer Ben Crump

The investigation into the Memphis police beating that resulted in the death of an African American man will continue, despite the questions over whether or not there are additional charges.

Five officers were fired and indicted on murder charges in the death of Nichols. Several other police and first-responders have been relieved of duty as the investigation progresses.

As the investigation continues, Nichols’ family attorney Ben Crump said he thinks there will be additional fallout, but “whether that’s going to lead to criminal charges, we have to see.”

Steve Mulroy doesn’t know if there will be any additional charges brought, but he doesn’t know if anything was done last Thursday to prevent them.

They waited until 7 p.m. Friday to publicly release the agonizing footage of Nichols’ fatal encounter with officers, allowing time for local politicians, activists and Nichols’ family to make pleas for calm in the community.

Nichols could be heard yelling for his mother in the video of the January 7 encounter, which begins with a traffic stop and goes on to show officers repeatedly beating the young Black man with batons, punching him and kicking him – including at one point while his hands are restrained behind his back.

The officers then milled around, with no one rendering aid in the critical minutes following the beating. An autopsy results commissioned by attorneys for the family of a man who died three days after he was brutally beaten indicate that he died of massive bleeding caused by a severe beating.

On Sunday, he told CNN “All of these officers failed their oath.” “They failed their oath to protect and serve. Look at that video: Was anybody trying to protect and serve Tyre Nichols?”

In cities such as New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, demonstrators raised signs calling for an end to abuses of authority.

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Nichols has been described as a devoted son who had tattooed his mother’s name on his arm, a loving father to a 4-year-old boy, and a free spirit with a passion for skateboarding and capturing sunsets on his camera.

The five officers were part of the SCORPION unit. Karen Rudolph told CNN on Saturday. The unit, launched in 2021, put officers into areas where police were tracking upticks in violent crime.

“That reprehensible conduct we saw in that video, we think this was part of the culture of the SCORPION unit,” Crump said. “So we demanded that they disbanded immediately before we see anything like this happen again.”

Frank Colvett is a member of the Memphis City Council. She is going to have to answer to the whole world, not just the council.

“We just have to change the culture … We have to hold people accountable. We have to let the legacy of Mr. Nichols be that there is going to be police reform not only here in Memphis but in this country.”

Easter- Thomas thinks there is hope that the system will get it right because of the peaceful and direct sense of protest in the city of Memphis.

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The officers, identified as Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin and Desmond Mills Jr., are expected to be arraigned February 17.

The videos gave as many questions as they had answers, specifically regarding the involvement of Mills Jr., and that his vision wasimpaired by the use of pepper spray, according to his attorney.

Two sheriff’s office employees were put on leave last week after video of an altercation was released. “I have concerns about two deputies who appeared on scene following the physical confrontation between police and Tyre Nichols,” Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said Friday.

As for national legislation, Crump called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the Democratic-controlled House in 2021 but not the evenly split Senate.

The Congressional Black Caucus is requesting a meeting with President Joe Biden this week to push for negotiations on police reform, caucus chair Steven Horsford wrote in a news release Sunday.

Gloria Sweet-Love, the Tennessee State Conference NAACP President applauded Memphis Police Chief Davis for “doing the right thing,” by not waiting six months to a year to fire the officers who beat up Tyre Nichols.

She had no applause for Congress, who she called to action saying, “by failing to craft and pass bills to stop police brutality, you’re writing another Black man’s obituary. You have control of the blood of Black America. Stand up and do something.

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A pair of Democratic state lawmakers said Saturday that they intend to file police reform legislation ahead of the Tennessee General Assembly’s Tuesday filing deadline.

While Democrats hold the minority with 24 representatives compared to the Republican majority of 99 representatives, Towns said this legislation is not partisan and should pass on both sides of the legislature.

You would be hard pressed to not see what happened to that young man and not want to do anything about it. What would happen to this dog if it was beaten like that? Towns said.

Law enforcement has faced a new wave of criticism since the Tennessee officials released the video of the Memphis police beating.

“It was far more rampant in the ’80s, when I started doing police work, than it was in the ’90s or 2000s,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina. “Even before body cams, cops were getting more professional and wouldn’t make it personal, like it seemed to be in this case. This is just — it’s so far out of the norm.”

Today’s police training typically requires a single officer at the scene to issue clear and specific commands. It also requires police officers to respond professionally and proportionately to any perceived act of defiance.

There is no sign of the officers stopping the use of force in the available footage. It doesn’t shows the contrary.

The official efforts to respond to the vicious beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police are already underway, just two days after footage of the incident was released to the public.

“We would like to see other cities take similar action with their saturation police units as a way of creating better trust in their communities,” the attorneys said. “We must keep in mind that this is just the next step on this journey for justice and accountability, as clearly this misconduct is not restricted to these specialty units. It extends a lot further.

In the Light of the John Ray Clemmons, G. A. Hardaway, and Joe Towns, the Black Police Experience

House Democratic Caucus Chair John Ray Clemmons, Rep. G.A. Hardaway and Rep. Joe Towns, Jr., announced their plan during a press conference on Saturday.

Among the issues the bills aim to address are implicit bias training, mental health evaluations for police officers, limits on officers transferring departments after facing discipline or being fired and a reevaluation of low-level traffic stops, NBC News reported.

The Republicans hold a large majority in the General Assembly, but the Democrats said they were confident that they could get some bipartisan support, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Without federal police reform, I don’t think we will be able to keep up with the proliferation of these phrases, which is going to happen without us,” she said.

Efforts to end qualified immunity for police officers that protects them from being held personally liable for violating a person’s rights have not succeeded in Congress despite the bill being named after George Floyd.

The police captain in Montgomery County, Maryland is not only a retired officer, but she is also an Editor. The Black Police Experience is based on her efforts to educate the intersection of law enforcement and the black community. She teaches criminal justice at Howard University in DC and Montgomery College in Maryland. The opinions expressed in this commentary are of her own. CNN has more opinion.

Based on my 28 years of experience as a former police officer and captain, it was clear to me that the officers lacked supervision, showed little professional maturity and escalated a situation into what would eventually become a deadly encounter through gross negligence and a complete disregard for human life.

The mother said that the officers charged with her son’s death brought shame to their own families. They made the Black community feel bad.

The association’s current stance is unusual. It did not defend the arrested officers outright or say that they were just doing a difficult job that required them to make split-second decisions – responses we’ve come to expect from police unions that so often help shield officers accused of misconduct from accountability.

Efforts to push for police reform in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020 have been largely replaced with calls to address the fear of rising crime, partially through hiring more police officers. The president proposed funding for 100,000 more police officers last year as part of his Safer America Plan and the omnibus appropriations bill also includes $324 million in funding to hire more police officers.

While some have praised Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis’ swift action in the case, she is also who created the now-deactivated SCORPION police unit that the charged officers were part of.

States and local jurisdictions have tried to tackle police misconduct through new policies and legislation. We still have a lot of unnecessary deaths at the hands of police because of training and revised policies over and over again.

The writer had 28 years of combined experience in law enforcement, not just as a captain, so this article has been changed to reflect that.

Five former officers were indicted Thursday on charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping. One day later, officials released police body camera and street surveillance footage of the deadly encounter after a January 7 traffic stop.

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“If we look at some past incidents in our country, there’s been some mistakes made,” said Ron Johnson, a former Missouri State Highway Patrol captain, referring to the handling of previous cases of police brutality. A lot of things were done right, I think.

Two years ago, we would not have seen some of the things we are seeing today.

According to the incident report, which was released in February 2020, there was no forced entry during the police raid that led to the death of Breanna Taylor, a black EMT.

Still, law enforcement and legal analysts are now pointing to Memphis’ actions as a new example of how to maintain trust in the community after fatal police encounters.

When cops don’t act and allow something to happen over a long period of time, then maybe they should be held responsible to an even higher standard. We are in a new era of examining police behavior under a different eye for possible prosecution.

The preliminary results of an autopsy commissioned by attorneys for Nichols’ family said he suffered “extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” family attorney Benjamin Crump said this week.

Chief Davis promised immediate action after noting the serious nature of the officers conduct during the stop. The department was “serving notice to the officers involved,” she said.

The department said that five officers had their jobs terminated because they failed in their duty to intervene and render aid.

A legal affairs commentator says the police department learned something from other high-profile cases when district attorneys were not transparent.

“They did the right thing in this case by convening a grand jury, investigating the case quickly, and then charging these officers, bringing them into custody.”

Memphis has swift criminal charges compared to other cities that have waited months or years for a brutality case to be decided, said lawyer Benjamin Crump in a news conference Friday.

A CNN political analyst said the case of Walter Scott, who was killed by police in South Carolina after he was pulled over for a broken brake light, reminded him of the charges against him.

Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager was arrested days after the shooting and indicted on a murder charge two months later. The trial of the ex-officer who shot Scott in the back ended in a mistrial but he was convicted of violation of civil rights by acting under the color of law. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

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“The last thing you want to do is take a high tension event and then add that thing that’s going to increase tension … on a Friday night knowing that people don’t have to be at work in the morning and they have the whole weekend ahead of them,” said CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller.

But, Miller said, the delay allowed authorities to show the public “the wheels of justice are turning and turning relatively quickly.” The additional time also allowed officials to “unite the faith community in Memphis, the voice of the family and the family’s lawyers, and the key community contacts” in calling for calm.

Police departments across the country, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Nashville and New York are either keeping an eye on events or are already prepared for protests.

Martin said that they have watched many of the cases over the last several years. We usually see a peaceful response when law enforcement authorities come forward and provide information to the community.

Protesters took to the interstate to block both lanes of the bridge after the videos went online. There were no arrests.

Pole-camera video released Friday shows that after the EMTs arrived and before the ambulance arrived, first responders repeatedly walked away from Nichols, with Nichols intermittently falling onto his side.

The footage stunned hardened law enforcement experts. Officials across the country expressed outrage – including President Joe Biden, who said it was “yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and Brown Americans experience every single day.”

The footage of the incident has left many unanswered questions, according to a retired Los Angeles Police Department sergeant.

“All of this was preventable,” she told CNN Saturday. There are officers who are young and on the job who are out there on a regular basis. This was something that they are used to doing.

Memphis City Council chairman Martavius Jones told CNN that despite the positive change in the handling of brutality cases, more needs to be done.

“To see the events unfold how they’ve unfolded, with this Tyre Nichols situation, is heartbreaking. I have a son,” said Kiara Hill, standing at a makeshift memorial near the Memphis corner where Nichols was beaten. “And Tyre, out of the officers on the scene, he was the calmest.”

“When you see police officers commit crimes against citizens, then we want you to act just as swiftly and show as the chief said, the community needs to see it, but we need to see it too when it’s White police officers,” Crump said.

But disbanding the unit without giving officers new training would be “putting lipstick on a pig,” city council chair Martavius Jones told CNN Saturday.

Getting the word out about policing reform and the deaths of Tyre Nichols, the father of his son and his wife, Tim Scott,

The senator from Illinois, who leads the Senate Judiciary committee, said national police reform legislation was a good starting point.

“It’s the right starting point, and Sen. (Cory) Booker, chairman of the crime subcommittee, has been working on this for years. I think he and Sen. (Tim) Scott should sit down again quickly to see if we can revive that effort, but that in and of itself is not enough. We need a national conversation about policing in a responsible, constitutional, and humane way,” he said.

The 29-year-old was a father and also the baby of his family, the youngest of four children. He was a “good boy” who spent his Sundays doing laundry and getting ready for the week, his mother said.

The mother of Nichols created a crowd funding site for the purpose of raising money. The donations will go towards the cost of Wells’ and her husband’s mental health services as well as their time off from their jobs, according to the page. They want to build a memorial skate park to honor him and his love for skating and sunsets.

“We are looking at everybody who had any kind of involvement in this incident,” from the officers and paramedics on scene to those who filed the paperwork, Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy said Monday.

Prosecutors moved “extraordinarily quick” with charges against the five officers “primarily responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols,” the district attorney said.

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I don’t believe we have reached the end of it. And I think we’re going to find there’s more to this as we go into the trial,” Memphis City Council member Jeff Warren said. “I don’t think we’re on top of this yet.”

Warren said they should make sure to go through the police department and see where they were weak.

Another officer has been fired and a seventh has been relieved of duty as a result of the latest police killing, which has sparked angry nationwide protests and a conversation about how police officers treat Black residents.

Police said one of the two officers was a white man. Elder would not say whether or not he is being paid.

The body-camera video does not show Hemphill at the second site where the district attorney believes he was beaten and seriously injured.

The fire department said that Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge were both terminated from their jobs after the encounter.

The fire department’s investigation concluded that “the two EMTs responded based on the initial nature of the call and information they were told on the scene and failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of Mr. Nichols,” the fire chief said in a news release.

An attorney for the family of Tyre Nichols said after the fire department firings were announced that they were all part of the fault for the man’s death.

Ballin said that some questions would have to focus on the individual actions of Mills, and whether he crossed the lines that other officers had crossed.

They failed him by using excessive force, severely beating him, not intervening, and they failed him by not rendering aid.

The Nichols’ family is struggling with the initial police statement about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” speech

The attorney said Nichols’ family still is trying to absorb the breadth of this multi-agency investigation, while also dealing with the loss of their loved one.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famed “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech the night before he was killed, and on Tuesday Sharpton and his family gathered at the Mason Temple Church of God In Christ headquarters.

Some felt that the discrepancy between the initial police statement and what was captured on video brought to mind previous instances in which law enforcement’s initial statement about a violent encounter was vague or false.

Minneapolis Police arrested a suspect after they responded to a forgery in progress. “Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress,” a press release read. “Officers called for an ambulance.”

George Floyd was the man captured on video by a bystander, and the footage showed a former Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes while Floyd begged for his life. Floyd died that day.

But video shot by a bystander showed former NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold until he went unconscious. New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later ruled Garner’s death a homicide.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said that a drug overdose had killed a man inside the Santa Rita Jail. But as the Guardian reported, body-camera footage released later showed that officers put Armstrong in a restraining jacket and a spit mask before he became unresponsive. The autopsy found that he died of asphyxiation.

John Elder, the police department’s public information director in 2020, wrote the initial statement about Floyd’s death. He told the Los Angeles Times that he got his information from sergeants and computer-aided dispatch, and that he hadn’t seen any video footage of the encounter before writing the press release.

“This had literally zero intent to deceive or be dishonest or disingenuous. Elder said that the statement would have been completely different if he had known what was happening on the video.

When there are discrepancies in the report or statements that are put out that do not match the evidence, it’s where the conflict starts. She said that there is a tendency for the language to try and abdicate responsibility.

She said that she had worked with a agency that would bring in community leaders for an explanation of an event before they spoke to the media. If they haven’t reviewed any video evidence yet, the departments can acknowledge that.

There had been a “confrontation” between officers and a driver suspected of reckless driving, police said. The suspect fled the scene on foot, and another “confrontation occurred” as officers tried to take him into custody, the statement said.

“It is a very problematic situation, and this goes back to what we saw with the Derek Chauvin case,” said Justin Hansford, a law professor and the executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University. We have a large gap between what the police report said and what actually came out. This issue of believing police reports on their face as they are immediately released is something that we need to reconsider.”

Troopers said Greene’s death was “caused by crash-related blunt force chest trauma that resulted in a fractured sternum and ruptured aorta” and said they used force “for their own personal safety and for the safety of the public,” according to court documents.

There are videos from the police body camera and dash camera which show a different story of what happened near Monroe. The footage, obtained by the Associated Press in 2021, shows officers after the crash kicking, tasing and restraining Greene.

Hollingsworth died in a car crash in September 2020. In December 2022, five law enforcement officers involved in the arrest were indicted on state charges ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice.

The initial police news release documenting the arrest of George Floyd in May 2020 simply stated: “Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. An adult male believed to be in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the hospital after being transported there.

One bystander who took video, Darnella Frazier, testified during Chauvin’s trial. George Floyd was saying that he couldn’t breathe. Please. Get off of me. I can’t breathe,” she testified. “He cried for his mom… It seemed like he knew — seemed like he knew it was over for him.”

Several other bystanders also captured video of the encounter, including another high school student, an off-duty firefighter and an employee at the Speedway across the street.

A jury found no evidence of a handwritten note in the case of Floyd, an officer shot and killed by her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker

But the judge in the case recently ruled Floyd’s murder had four aggravating factors, which paves the way for him to sentence Chauvin to longer than the recommended 12 and a half years.

Taylor was struck by bullets six times after her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired one shot at officers serving a warrant. Walker said that he thought the officers to be invaders.

The investigators wrote that the cops took a total of thirty-two shots when it was unsafe to take a single shot. This is how the wrong person was shot and killed.”

The state attorney general said that one of the officers at the scene, Hankison, would be tried in 2022, for allegedly firing into the apartment next to him. Hankison, who was fired in June 2020, pleaded not guilty.

But cellphone video taken by a bystander captured Slager chasing Scott. Prosecutors say not only did that video show Slager firing at Scott’s back from 17 feet away, but that it showed him dropping his Taser by Scott’s body.

The department of police in Chicago was accused of exaggerating the threat Laquan McDonald posed after he was fatally shot by an officer. And a former lieutenant who led the shooting investigation allegedly destroyed handwritten notes from witness interviews, the investigative report from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson revealed in 2019.

Police initially said McDonald, a Black teenager, approached officers while armed with a knife and refused verbal commands to drop it, prompting Jason Van Dyke to open fire six seconds after getting out of his squad car. He shot McDonald 16 times.

Thirteen months later, a judge ordered the release of the grainy dashboard police camera footage of the shooting, and the fallout was immediate. The footage showed McDonald walking away from officers, rather than charging at them.

The funeral of George Nichols, the youngest son of a cop, and the Rev. Al Sharpton: a clarion call for justice

The funeral for the man who died after he was severely beaten by police is set to take place in Memphis on Wednesday, about three weeks after he died.

Nichols’ funeral service will take place less than a week after Friday evening’s public release of footage of the attack on Nichols shook a nation long accustomed to videos of police brutality, especially against people of color. The officers are charged in the death of a man.

The mother of a Black woman killed by police in Kentucky is expected to attend the service.

Philonise Floyd was the younger brother of George Floyd, who died in May 2020 after an ex-cop kneeling on his neck and back for more than 9 minutes.

The funeral is expected to be attended by Vice President Harris. Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, and Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, are also expected.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, in a painfully familiar role, will deliver a eulogy that will pay tribute to Nichols’ life and serve as a clarion call for justice.

“You thought that no one would respond. You thought that nobody would care. The Vice President of the United States is coming tomorrow to his funeral, Sharpton said.

The most peaceful person you have ever met is my brother. He’s never lifted a finger to nobody. Dupree said that never raised his voice to anyone. “If my brother was here today and he had to say something, he would tell us to do this peacefully.”

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The brutal attack sparked largely peaceful protests from New York to Los Angeles as well as renewed calls for police reform and scrutiny of specialized police units that target guns in high crime areas.

His mother says that he was the baby of the family, and that he spent Sundays doing laundry and preparing for the week.

He moved to Memphis from California right before the Covid-19 pandemic and remained there after the mandatory lock downs prompted by the health crisis, his mother has said.

Nichols was a regular at a Germantown, Tennessee, Starbucks where he befriended a group of people who regularly set aside their cellphone at a table and talked mostly about sports, particularly his beloved San Franscisco 49ers, according to friend Nate Spates Jr.

After visiting Starbucks, he would take a nap before going to his job at FedEx. His mother said he would come home for dinner during his break. His favorite dish: her homemade sesame chicken.

In fact, taking pictures served as a form of self-expression that writing could never capture for Nichols, who had written on his photography website that it helped him look “at the world in a more creative way.”

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Services at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Central Time. The funeral would be broadcasted on both Facebook and the internet.

The two discipline cases about the use of force focused on whether the officers filed the required reports about the incidents and did not appear to examine if the officers’ used of force was warranted.

Haley began working at the department in August 2020. He did not fill out a response to resistance form after grabbing a woman’s arm and handcuffing her. The forms must be filled out if an officer uses any part of their body “to compel compliance,” according to the file.

The violation was dismissed because the hearing officer said that officer Haley took full ownership for the accident and was very humble during the hearing.

Mills graduated with a degree in criminal justice from West Virginia State University and was hired as a Memphis police officer.

Mills went against procedure when he put his digital assistant into the street while entering his squad car. A separate car ran over the device.

It was Mills’ first infraction, and he immediately reported the incident to his union representative, so he received a written reprimand, according to department records.

Later that month, Mills failed to file a response to resistance form when he used physical force to take a woman down to the ground so she could be handcuffed and arrested. Mills said he didn’t realize his actions necessitated the use of the form and received a written rebuke.

In March 2019, a loaded handgun was found in the rear passenger side of a squad car used by Martin and his partner. Martin said he failed to do a proper pre- and post-shift inspection, and only inspected the car from the outside. During his shift that day, he and his partner conducted two traffic stops, in which the suspects were placed in the backseat where the gun was found. Additionally, the officers did not do inspections after the suspects left the vehicle, as is protocol. The files show that Martin was suspended for three days without pay.

In September 2020, Martin violated protocol by mishandling a domestic abuse complaint between two sisters, one of whose husband requested a report. Martin did not take the report and said he did not believe one was necessary, reasoning that the parties involved were intoxicated and the man’s wife – the alleged victim of abuse – did not want the report. The sisters were threatened by the responding officers that they would be arrested if they did not take a report, according to records.

The hearing officer said that police officers in Memphis are told by their policy and state law to make a complete report on domestic abuse calls. “Officer[s] cannot base their decision to arrest based [on] the victim’s consent or on the perception of the victim’s willingness to cooperate with prosecution.”

The evaluation stated that the officer was respectful when dealing with everyone regardless of race, sex, or rank. “He approaches his calls with a positive attitude and is well received when dealing with the public. He is continually a top leader in arrests and calls, and not one person he has arrested has complained.”

In March of 2018, Smith started working at the department. In January 2021, he was passing a vehicle and crashed into its rear, causing it to spin and crash into a third vehicle, which had two people inside. All the people were taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Smith said the driver of the second vehicle went right and then left into his lane suddenly. He admitted to speeding, but said he had a head injury that made it hard to remember.

The documents show that Haley sent photographs to other officers and a woman after she saw him taking pictures of Nichols as he lay propped against a car.

Haley’s lawyer declined to comment, and lawyers for the other four officers either declined to comment or did not respond to requests from The Associated Press.

The newly released documents are part of a request by the Memphis Police Department that the five officers who have been charged with murder be decertified and prohibited from working in law enforcement again. Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis signed each of the five requests to decertify the officers.

Haley sprayed Nichols with chemical irritant spray after forcing him out of his car and wearing a sweatshirt over his head

While driving, Haley sprayed Nichols with a chemical irritant spray after forcing him from his car using loud profanity and wearing a black sweatshirt hoodie over his head.

The decertification charges against Mills said you and other officers were captured on the body camera laughing, making jokes and boasting about their involvement.

Mills was accused of not giving Nichols’ mother an accurate account of what happened, as they said he admitted he did not provide immediate medical aid and walked away and decontaminated himself from chemical spray.

Smith said he hit the man with a closed fist because they couldn’t handcuff him. Other officers kicked, punched and pepper sprayed the subject, but you sprayed him with your chemical irritant spray, then held the individual’s arm.