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Five US cops charged with beating Black man to death

Five US cops charged with beating Black man to death

WASHINGTON: US authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving.After a chase ensued, “police brutalized him to the point of being unrecognizable,“ family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci said in a statement.The five officers, who are also Black, were fired after an internal investigation found them to have deployed excessive use of force and to have failed to render aid, police said.Nichols was taken to hospital in critical condition, according to police, where he died on January 10.Officials said police video of the arrest would be released after 6:00 pm Central time Friday (0000 GMT Saturday).Nichols's death at the hands of police immediately recalled the May 2020 killing of Geo

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