Hundreds gather in Memphis church to bid farewell to Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after US police torture, with civil rights leaders Al Sharpton decrying officers as 'thugs' who might have acted differently if Nichols had been white
RowVaughn Wells stops in front of the casket of her son Tyre Nichols at the start of his funeral service in Memphis, Tennessee.
The relatives of other Black people killed by police in cities across the United States came to offer comfort to Nichols' family, including a woman from Texas whose son was killed by a Houston police officer, who sang before a black-clad gospel choir. The Memphis Police Department fired five of the officers, who also are Black. Prosecutors charged them last week with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression.The civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton, who has often spoken at the funerals of victims of police brutality, decried the five officers as "thugs" and traitors to their race as he eulogised Nichols in the city where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
Sharpton said the officers who beat Nichols might have acted differently if there was real accountability for their actions. He also said he believes that if Nichols had been white, "you wouldn't have beat him like that." Police video of the confrontation released by the city on Friday showed officers dousing Nichols with pepper spray and pummeling him with punches, kicks and baton blows as he cried out for his mother. One officer was seen firing a Taser stun gun at Nichols when he attempted to flee.
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