3 Fmr #PoliceOfficers Found #Guilty of #CoverUp in #TyreNichols’s Death [#murder]
The fmr #cops were *acquitted* of the most serious charge in the case — violating Tyre Nichols’s #CivilRights by causing his death.
#law #PoliceViolence #AbuseOfPower #SystemicRacism #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/tyre-nichols-verdict.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
3 fmr #Memphis, TN #police officers were found #guilty Thurs of federal #WitnessTampering in the #violent #beating of #TyreNichols, a 29-yr-old #Black man who died 3 days after his encounter w/police [from the severe injuries they inflicted]
ALL of the #cops were acquitted of the most serious charge—violating Nichols’s #CivilRights by causing his death. One cop, Demetrius Haley, was convicted on a lesser charge of violating Nichols’s civil rights by causing #BodilyInjury.
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