hello and welcome to bbc news. police video showing five officers in memphis, tennessee viciously beating a black motorist has been released. tyre nichols died three days later and the officers who are all black each face multiple charges, including murder. his family say the video shows him being kicked like a football. the bbc is reviewing the footage. some of it is very graphic and too distressing for broadcast. this is what we will show you the first few seconds of the initial dashcam footage. we ve ended the footage there as we still continue to review it. president biden has spoken to tyre s family by phone and appealed for calm in the city. he said he was outraged and deeply pained by the video. nada tawfik reports. the death of tyre nichols has prompted americans, yet again, to confront the reality of police brutality and its consequences. this 29 year old loved skateboarding and was on his way home from a local park when a traffic stop by five black police of
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he said he was outraged and deeply pained by the video. nada tawfik reports. the death of tyre nichols has prompted americans, yet again, to confront the reality of police brutality and its consequences. this 29 year old loved skateboarding and was on his way home from a local park when a traffic stop by five black police officers turned into a deadly confrontation. he was tased and beaten for three minutes. this was his condition after in the hospital bruised and swollen in a critical condition. he died three days later from his injuries. chanting: justice for tyre! now, another family is asking how this keeps happening, despite worldwide outrage and public demands for police reform following the killing of george floyd. i want to say to the five police officers that murdered my son, you also disgrace yourfamilies. but, you know what, i m going to pray for you and your families, because, at the end of the day, this shouldn t have happened.
emotional and powerful words from the family tyre nichols of with many people calling for change in policing. change in policing. what is our change in policing. what is your reaction? change in policing. what is your reaction? i change in policing. what is your reaction? i watched i change in policing. what is. your reaction? i watched the video and it was appalling. it was incomprehensible from beginning to end, from the car stop, the state of agitation of the police when they pulled the car over to the pursuit to the lack of training and lack of strategy in containing and subduing the person they had stopped and then the anger that they received as their incompetence. even the fact that during the foot pursuit they were all completely out of breath and poorly trained from a to the and it was awful to watch. it a to the and it was awful to watch. . , a to the and it was awful to watch. ., , ., , ., ., watch. it really was. you have rodney king. watch. it really was. you have ro