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US on edge over video of fatal police beating

US on edge over video of fatal police beating

WASHINGTON: The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.”The police officers, who were also Black, were charged with second-degree murder in the beating of Tyre Nicholas, 29, who died in hospital on January 10, three days after being stopped on suspicion of reckless driving.“They had beat him to a pulp,“ Nicholas’s mother RowVaughn Wells told CNN. “He had bruises all over. His head was swollen like a watermelon. His neck was bursting because of the swelling.”“I knew my son was gone, even if he did live he would have been a vegetable,“ Wells said, sobbing.Memphis police chief CJ Davis said the video, which will be released after 6:00 pm Central time (0000 GMT Saturday), shows Nicholas crying out for his mother.“What I saw on this video was more of a groupthink sort of mentality. And no one took a step to inte

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