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CHICAGO (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi courthouse and is wanted on murder and armed robbery charges is in a standoff with police at a restaurant in Chicago, blocks from the Democratic National Convention.
Federal prosecutors rested their case on Thursday against three former Memphis police officers who face civil rights and obstruction charges in the beating and death of Tyre Nichols last year.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An FBI agent who interviewed two former Memphis police officers on trial in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols ’ testified Thursday that they accepted accountability for participating.
Desmond Mills Jr. watched the footage from his body camera, the Memphis courtroom silent except for the sounds of punches and Tyre Nichols’s agonized cries for his mother.
Multiple former Memphis police officers condemned the policing tactics of their own department during high-profile testimony this week in the federal trial against three officers who participated in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7, 2023, after a traffic stop. One officer spoke about the shame of his involvement in that attack.
Emmitt Martin III was already angry on Jan. 7, 2023, his nerves simmering in his first days back on patrol in Memphis after being sidelined for months by a car accident. As a member of a street crime unit, he said, he felt the need to prove he was still a capable officer, and he had yet to make an arrest.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer testified Tuesday that he punched a “helpless” Tyre Nichols at least five times while two colleagues held his arms and said “hit him,” then lied to his supervisor about their use of force in a beating that proved fatal.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Defense attorneys tried to poke holes in officer training practices and policies while questioning a police lieutenant Monday during the trial of three former Memphis officers charged with federal civil rights violations in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
MEMPHIS — Memphis Police Department Lt. Larnce Wright said Thursday that three former officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, did not follow department policy when they beat him in January 2023 — testimony that contradicted the argument presented by defense attorneys earlier in the week.