‘Seared in our memories’: outpouring of shock and horror over Tyre Nichols’s video

Recording of the 29-year-old’s killing has sent shockwaves across the US, with the officers’ conduct being condemnedThis article contains descriptions of physical violenceThe first thing the video captures Tyre Nichols saying to police are four simple words: “I didn’t do anything.”It didn’t matter. In minutes, police yanked him from his car, threw him to the ground, attempted to Tase him, and threatened to knock him out. They gave him non-sensical commands, the journalist Wesley Lowery noted, yelling at him to lie on the ground when he was already there. “I’m just trying to get home,” Nichols said.