Topic: Justin Smith

A federal jury meeting in Memphis Thursday returned a mixed verdict in the trial of three former police officers involved in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died in January 2023.

Three former Memphis police officers facing charges for their roles in Tyre Nichols' beating death in January 2023 "stood by his dying body and laughed," a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.

Jury selection began Monday in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers on civil-rights violations related to the 2023 beating death of motorist Tyre Nichols.

Indianapolis police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the slayings of two women whose bodies were found days apart along the same road.

A former Memphis, Tenn., police officer charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will plead guilty to federal civil rights violations on Thursday, his attorney said.

A federal grand jury has indicted five former Memphis police officers in the death of Tyre Nichols. Nichols died in a hospital on January 10, three days after being beaten by members of an elite police anti-gang unit.

The Shelby County Tennessee district attorney has dropped more than 30 cases worked by the five former Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder of Tyre Nichols.

Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols said Wednesday that the official autopsy report states the 29-year-old man's death was a homicide the result of blunt force trauma.

A court order has delayed the release of about 20 hours of footage from the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers on Wednesday.

The five former Memphis police officers charged with murdering Tyre Nichols pleaded not guilty in court Friday.