United States Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday denounced the death of young African-American Tyre Nichols, which shocked the country, as “a violent act” committed by police officers who were supposed to ensure public safety.
‘Someone good’ whose life was taken too soon by ‘a violent act’ of the police: at the funeral of Tyre Nichols, a young African-American whose fatal beating by black police officers shocked the United States , the speakers, including Vice-President Kamala Harris, protested against police violence.
After hugging Tyre Nichols’ mother for a long time in the Memphis church where this tribute was held, Kamala Harris had harsh words for the officers who beat him up as he shouted that he had nothing done and called for help.
“Didn’t he have the right to be safe?” Asked the vice-president.
Tire Nichols was “a good person, a beautiful soul”
“Here is a family who lost their son and brother after an act of violence” perpetrated by “those responsible for protecting them”, and “this violent act was not intended to ensure public safety”, she hammered in front of the crowd.
Tyre Nichols was “a good person, a beautiful soul, a son, a father, a brother, a friend, a human being gone too soon”, said at the opening of the service the Reverend J. Lawrence Turner at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
“Today, as we celebrate Tyre’s life and comfort his family, we inform this nation that the rerun of this episode, which has black lives matter as a hashtag, has been canceled and will not be renewed for a new season. “, he launched. “We will eventually win,” he said again.
The five police officers involved charged with murder
Tire Nichols, 29, was arrested on January 7 by officers from a special unit in Memphis, in the southern United States, for a simple traffic violation, according to the police.
But beaten relentlessly, so much so that he had become unrecognizable according to his family, he died three days later in hospital.
The unbearable images of the arrest and beatings inflicted on the young man by the agents were broadcast, without cuts, by the largest channels in the country, raising fears of a social conflagration to the authorities.
The five police officers involved were fired and charged with murder. The “Scorpion Unit” to which they belonged, and which had the mission of reducing the number of illegal activities in sensitive neighborhoods by deploying more police there, has been dismantled. Three firefighters were dismissed in connection with the facts and two other police officers suspended.
