• WATCH: Tyre Nichols laid to rest in funeral ceremony

    WATCH: Tyre Nichols laid to rest in funeral ceremony

    Feb 01, 2023 02:46 PM EST

    ... God. And I guess now his assignment is done. He’s gone home," she said. She also urged Congress to pass the law named after George Floyd. Members of his family and others who have been killed by police attended the funeral, including Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and Eric Garner.

  • Police tactics again under scrutiny in wake of killing of Tyre Nichols

    Police tactics again under scrutiny in wake of killing of Tyre Nichols

    Jan 31, 2023 11:45 PM EST

    ... called SCORPION. Geoff Bennett: It strikes me that Memphis was among the police departments that reviewed and revised its policies after the police killing of George Floyd. They instituted a ban on choke holds. They instituted de-escalation policies. Of course, none of that mattered when Tyre Nichols was pulled ...

  • Family of man killed by officer in 2016 describes efforts to reform policing

    Family of man killed by officer in 2016 describes efforts to reform policing

    Jan 31, 2023 11:41 PM EST

    ... we saw videos of Philando Castile. We saw the video of my brother and so many more, Alton Sterling, Walter Scott in South Carolina, and George Floyd. And we have yet to see any change in this country, have yet to see Congress act. And so I just think that ...

  • White House says VP Harris will attend Tyre Nichols’ funeral

    White House says VP Harris will attend Tyre Nichols’ funeral

    Jan 31, 2023 09:57 PM EST

    ... eulogy and Crump will speak immediately after the funeral. Those expected to be in attendance include Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, and Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd. The deaths of Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and Floyd in Minneapolis, at the hands of police sparked protests across ...

  • Tyre Nichols killing show officers still fail to intervene against misconduct

    Tyre Nichols killing show officers still fail to intervene against misconduct

    Jan 31, 2023 02:38 PM EST

    As five Memphis police officers attacked Tyre Nichols with their feet, fists and a baton, others milled around at the scene, even as the 29-year-old cried out in pain and then slumped limply against the side of a car. Just like the attack on George Floyd in Minneapolis ...

  • 6th Memphis officer suspended amid calls for more accountability following Nichols death

    6th Memphis officer suspended amid calls for more accountability following Nichols death

    Jan 30, 2023 11:55 PM EST

    We didn't get it in 1992 with Rodney King. We didn't get it with Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, during the Obama administration. We didn't get it with George Floyd. And how many more videos do we have to show you, America, before you understand that there ...

  • How videos of police brutality traumatize many Americans

    How videos of police brutality traumatize many Americans

    Jan 30, 2023 11:50 PM EST

    ... police body cameras and cell phone videos, we have seen the police killings captured on tape not just of Tyre Nichols, but of Eric Garner, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Walter Scott. The list, unfortunately, goes on and on and on. What do you see as the compound effect of that ...

  • 7th Memphis police officer disciplined, EMTs fired in Tyre Nichols death

    7th Memphis police officer disciplined, EMTs fired in Tyre Nichols death

    Jan 30, 2023 05:12 PM EST

    ... family, their lawyers and community activists who have peacefully protested in Memphis since the video was released. The video was evocative of the arrest of George Floyd in 2020 and officers' failure to intervene. On Saturday, Nichols' stepfather, Rodney Wells, told The Associated Press that the family was going to ...

  • Protesters question circumstances surrounding 'Stop Cop City' activist's death

    Protesters question circumstances surrounding 'Stop Cop City' activist's death

    Jan 29, 2023 08:00 PM EST

    City Council approved the $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in 2021, saying a state-of-the-art campus would replace substandard offerings and boost police morale beset by hiring and retention struggles in the wake of violent protests against racial injustice that roiled the city after George Floyd ...

  • Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Jan 29, 2023 05:47 PM EST

    ... the coronavirus pandemic. Budgets increased and more officers were hired for some large departments, including New York City’s. Still stuck in Congress is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would prohibit racial profiling, ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, limit the transfer of military equipment to police ...