Numerous protests have taken place this Friday across the United States after authorities in Memphis, Tennessee, released the video showing the assault by five former police officers on Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old African-American man who died on January 10 from injuries inflicted by the officers.
The cities of Chicago, Memphis or New York have welcomed demonstrators against police violence, after the death of the young African-American Nichols in a confrontation with five uniformed officers.
As reported by the media ‘USA Today’, even in freezing temperatures and shouting «killer cops must go», hundreds of protesters have gone to a police station in Chicago, during one of the first protests that have arisen following the revelations on video of the beating of Nichols.
In New York, protesters have taken to Union Square, Grand Central as well as Times Square, where the protests have been most violent. Protesters have struck several police vehicles and several arrests have been made.
According to the ‘New York Post’, at least three people have been handcuffed after confronting officers.
Several demonstrations are expected to be held throughout the United States this weekend.
The video, released by the Memphis Police, shows five officers, also African-American, beating the young man with a baton and tasering him.
The five officers have been indicted for allegedly committing felony murder for the beating of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after the confrontation from injuries inflicted by the five ex-cops.
For his part, U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed being «deeply hurt» upon seeing the video showing the death of Tyre Nichols. «I was outraged and deeply hurt to see the horrible video of the beating that caused the death of Nichols,» said the president.
The trial against the five ex-cops comes amid the social debate on police violence against black people, particularly since the murder at the hands of police officers of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, after which the protest movement known as ‘Black Lives Matter’ was born.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
