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Officers sued by Tyre Nichols' family want to pause lawsuit until criminal case is resolved

Lawyers for some of the Memphis officers named in a federal lawsuit over the death of Tyre Nichols are asking that the civil case be put on hold until the criminal case is finished

The Independent UK

California skate park named for Black motorist fatally beaten in police traffic stop

Officials have dedicated a California skate park in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man prosecutors say was beaten to death last Janaury by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee

The Independent UK

‘The world has never been the same’: George Floyd’s uncle on three years of heartbreak and fighting for justice

Selwyn Jones has found ways to grow around his grief after his nephew was killed by police, including co-founding a nonprofit focused on racial justice

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George Floyd death anniversary: Reckoning with police violence in limbo

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response, seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing

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The AG who prosecuted George Floyd's killers has ideas for how to end police violence

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison kept notes as lead prosecutor in the state's case against Derek Chauvin. He's sharing them in a new book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

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Judge blocks release of video, records in Tyre Nichols beating death investigation

A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation

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Tennessee commission holds off on decertifying former officer charged in Tyre Nichols death

A Tennessee commission that enforces standards for police has recommended that proceedings to bar an officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols from serving in law enforcement in the state be suspended until his legal case is resolved

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Deputies in civil rights probe accused of sexual assault

An attorney says Mississippi sheriff's deputies already being investigated for possible civil rights violations after allegedly placing a gun in a Black man's mouth and firing it attempted to sexually assault him and a second man during the same encounter

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Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head, autopsy shows

An autopsy shows Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained in a beating by police during a traffic stop in Memphis in January. Five officers have been charged in his slaying.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tyre Nichols autopsy reveals brain injuries after police beating

Five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, have been charged with second-degree murder in Nichols’s death in January.

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Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries, autopsy finds

Autopsy describes multiple contusions, brain injuries, cuts and bruises to the head and other parts of the body

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries, autopsy shows

An autopsy report shows Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries to the head after he was beaten by Memphis police during a January arrest

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols' autopsy reveals brain injuries from blunt force trauma, attorneys say

The family of Tyre Nichols and their attorneys were briefed on his official autopsy results Wednesday, nearly four months after his death.

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Ex-officer Preston Hemphill won’t be charged in Tyre Nichols killing

Hemphill ‘did not pursue’ Nichols and ‘was not present for the later beating incident’, says Shelby county DA’s spokesperson

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No charges for ex-officer who hit Tyre Nichols with stun gun

A prosecutor says a former Memphis police officer who hit Tyre Nichols with a stun gun during a traffic stop that preceded Nichols’ brutal beating by other officers won’t be charged criminally

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The law often shields police officers from accountability -- and reinforces policing that harms Black people, homeless people and the mentally ill

Seeking accountability in the brutal police beating death of her son, the mother of Tyre Nichols has filed a US$55 million federal lawsuit against the individual officers, the Memphis Police Department and the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

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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.

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police over beating, death

The family of Tyre Nichols has sued the city of Memphis and individual officers and emergency medical personnel involved in his case

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The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police over brutal beating that led to his death

Nichols died in January, three days after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers

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Tyre Nichols' family sues the Memphis police force, the officers and the city

The lawsuit compared Nichols' fatal police beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, saying the 29-year-old suffered a beating "endured at hands of a modern-day lynch mob."

The Independent UK

Parents of Christian Glass, fatally shot by police, appeal for end to gun violence: ‘People are scared’

Former Clear Creek County deputies Andrew Buen and Kyle Gould are charged in the death of 22-year-old

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Kamala Harris rails against gun violence, attacks on democracy in NYC speech

NEW YORK — Vice President Harris railed against gun violence and attacks on democracy in a New York City speech Friday before activists and elected officials at the National Action Network.

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Black chiefs to meet amid debate on benefit of cop diversity

Black police chiefs, commissioners, sheriffs and commanders from across the country are set to meet this weekend in Detroit for the annual CEO symposium of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

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Watch again: Families of George Floyd, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols meet Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump

Watch again as the families of George Floyd, Tyre Nichols and Eric Garner held a meeting with Reverend Al Sharpton and Ben Crump on Wednesday, 12 April.

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Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality

Ireland-based artist Pan Cooke creates cartoons summarizing the world's daily news in comics, highlighting how prevalent police brutality and hate crimes are across the U.S.

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