announcement about his future in the nfl. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening after suffering a dehumanizing death helplessly beaten in the street, the life and the person that was tyre nichols was celebrated in a memphis church today a funeral that portrayed nichols as more than a victim of a shocking act, but also a father, a skateboard enthusiast, a photographer the service, however, was also a public outcry for police reform, attended by other families who have lost loved ones to police. also in attendance, vice president kamala harris who said this violent act was not in pursuit of public safety on that note, we have learned more about the five officers charged with nichols death, including the disciplinary histories for four of them as an apparent disconnect emerges between police accounts of the confrontation with nichols and what is seen on video recordings priscilla thompson leads us off tonight reporter: tonight, songs of sor