Tyre Nichols' funeral

Tyre Nichols' death has sparked mostly peaceful protests around the country and renewed discussions around federal legislation to reform policing.

[fired three employees](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/30/memphis-fire-employees-fired-tyre-nichols/11151451002/) for failing to provide Nichols with adequate medical aid after arriving at the scene. The five officers were [charged with second-degree murder](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/29/tyre-nichols-updates-vigils-protests/11145358002/), among other related charges, and have been released on bail ranging from $250,000 to $350,000. Nichols' legacy “will be one of equal justice,” Crump said. “I see the world showing him love and fighting for his justice, but all I want is my baby brother back.” 7, my brother was robbed of his life, his passions and his talents, but not his light,” Dixon said. That bill failed to pass in the Senate in 2021. Sharpton said Nichols' death is personal to him in part because the officers [charged](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/29/tyre-nichols-updates-vigils-protests/11145358002/) in his death are Black. After the beating, Nichols was hospitalized in critical condition and died three days later. The footage shows the officers pepper-spraying, kicking and punching Nichols while he was restrained, bashing him with a baton and shooting him with a stun gun. Al Sharpton for a funeral Wednesday that was expected to draw thousands in the wake of the brutal police beating of a Rodney Wells, Nichols' stepfather, said the family will fight for justice not only for his stepson but for others who have died in police custody. – Family and friends of Tyre Nichols were joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Rev.

Tyre Nichols, whose death at the hands of police in Memphis led to second-degree murder charges against five officers, is being remembered at a funeral ...

delivered his famous “Mountaintop” speech the night before he was killed. Up to 20 hours of video recordings haven’t been released, Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy told CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” on Wednesday. Those people include the officers who filed the paperwork, he said. on the first day of Black History Month with African tribal drummers and a gospel choir. With Nichols’ black casket, draped in a white bouquet of flowers, as a centerpiece, the young man was praised by the Rev. Within 20 days of his death, the former officers were indicted on charges that included murder and kidnapping. The reverend invoked King’s 1968 “Mountaintop” speech in Memphis, where King said he had reached the peak and seen the Promised Land. “He never wanted anything but to watch cartoons and a big bowl of cereal. You didn’t get on the police department by yourself,” Sharpton said. He called out the five Black former officers charged in Nichols’ death. Al Sharpton, on Wednesday celebrated the life of Sharpton said he visited the Lorraine Motel, where the Rev.

Harris said the beating of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Black police officers was a violent act that went against the stated mission of police to ...

[charged with murder.](https://apnews.com/article/tyre-nichols-police-officers-charged-48d48f2137a2f34482274edb1bd1bab2) Their [specialized unit was disbanded](https://apnews.com/article/politics-memphis-crime-law-enforcement-1b7e8fa4ed7120a897086250d5d6da35). “Because if we don’t, that blood — the next child that dies, that blood is going to be on their hands.” Attorneys for two of the charged officers, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr., said they will plead not guilty. He noted that King was in Memphis to support a strike by city sanitation workers, most of whom were Black. what happened to Tyre is so personal to me, is that five Black men that wouldn’t have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad, in the city that Dr. King lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death,” Sharpton said. Sharpton said he took his daughter Ashley early Wednesday to the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? You don’t stand up to thugs in the street becoming thugs yourself. Sharpton said the officers who beat Nichols might have acted differently if there were real accountability for their actions. Video released after pressure from Nichols’ family shows officers holding him down and repeatedly punching, kicking and striking him with a baton as he screamed for his mother. “The only thing that’s keeping me going is that I truly believe that my son was sent here on assignment from God.

The Tyre Nichols' funeral service, initially scheduled for 10:30, has been delayed until 1 p.m. at Mississippi Blvd. Christian Church.

She will be joined by other officials, including White House Director for the Office of Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, and Senior Advisor to the President Mitch Landrieu, a former mayor of New Orleans. "So today as we celebrate Tyre's life, and comfort this family, we serve notice to this nation that the rerun of this episode that makes Black lives hashtags has been canceled and will not be renewed for another season," Turner said. Lawrence Turner, senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, began the ceremony describing the rights Nichols was denied, the right "to see the sunset another day" and "to grow old." Eulogist the Rev. Addressing Nichols' parents RowVaughn and Rodney wells, Harris told them, "You have been extraordinary in terms of your strength, your courage and your grace,” as attendants stood and applauded. Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? “All he wanted to do was get home," Sharpton said of Nichols as his mother, RowVaughn Wells, and older sister Keyana Dixon nodded and cried. Civil rights efforts in Memphis and elsewhere paved the way for more racial equality, Sharpton said. the Rev. And that’s why my family will never be the same." "This is a continuous fight that we have to fight for. Speaking after Nichols' funeral, the Rev.