local time, the city of Memphis released the four videos, totaling about 67 minutes. On Friday night, after the videos were released, two Shelby County sheriff's deputies who appeared on the scene were relieved of duty pending the outcome of an investigation. Davis said Wednesday that other officers remain under investigation in connection with the alleged policy violations in the traffic stop. Nichols was hospitalized in critical condition after the encounter and died three days later. Details about what occurred between Nichols and the officers have been sparse police initially said Nichols ran during the reckless driving stop and that a "confrontation" occurred in an effort to detain him.ĭavis, however, told MSNBC on Friday that an investigation and review of available camera footage could not "substantiate" the reckless driving claim.įive Memphis police officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder and other counts. “That’s 1,000 pounds beating on my son, using him as a piñata - all this unnecessary force that was really not needed for a kid that wasn’t resisting, or just trying to get home to his parents.” Each one of these officers was over 200,” Wells said. “These was monsters that did this to my son,” Nichols’ stepfather, Rodney Wells, said on MSNBC Friday night. They also appear to show police punch him as he was being held. They also captured him crying out for his mother and saying he was trying to go home.Īnd they appeared to show police’s aggressive, chaotic and at times inconsistent demands of Nichols - like demanding he provide his hands while his arm was being held and he was being pulled to his feet. The videos depicted Nichols being punched, struck with a baton, seemingly kicked in the face and sprayed with an irritant. The footage showed four vantage points: Three videos were from officer body-worn cameras and one was from a police surveillance camera mounted on a pole.
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