Officers face a number of fees together with second-degree homicide, aggravated kidnapping and official oppression.
(AP)
Five ex-Memphis, Tennessee cops pleaded not responsible on Friday to fees associated to the January deadly arrest of Tyre Nichols who was crushed to dying after being pulled over by US legislation enforcement.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr. face fees in state courtroom of second-degree homicide, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. The former officers are set to return to courtroom May 1.
Assistant District Attorney Paul Hagerman instructed reporters exterior of the courtroom that Friday’s listening to “was just the first court date for these defendants.” He emphasised that additional investigations into Nichols’ dying are ongoing.
In video launched final month of the January 7 beating, Nichols, 29, was seen being viciously pummeled by the 5 officers, who like Nichols are Black. The video confirmed Nichols being kicked, punched, pepper-sprayed and hit with a police baton as he laid almost lifeless on the bottom through the brutal beating.
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Officers fired
Nichols died three days later within the hospital the place he was receiving therapy.
Two extra officers, Preston Hemphill and one other unnamed MPD officer, had been “relieved of duty” for his or her involvement within the incident. Three Memphis Fire Department employees had been additionally fired for his or her response to Nichols’ beating.
Nichols was laid to relaxation on February 1 in a funeral attended by his household and pals, Vice President Kamala Harris and main civil rights leaders together with the Rev. Al Sharpton who vowed, “We’re going to change this country because we refuse to keep living under the threat of the cops and the robber.”
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