US Vice President Kamala Harris led urgent calls for police reform Wednesday as hundreds gathered in a Memphis church for the funeral of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating last month shocked the nation.
MEMPHIS, United States —
“This is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe,” she told the gathering at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. Also in attendance was Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, another prominent African American victim of police violence who was killed in a botched raid on her Kentucky home in 2020.
He was beaten viciously by police, in scenes recorded in body camera and security camera footage that triggered national outrage when it was made public last week.Two others along with three firefighters have been suspended as the investigation into Nichols’ death continues. Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, and stepfather Rodney Wells called for legislative action to reform the police.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Nichols’ funeral, said the officers who beat him had abandoned the spirit of the movement led by Martin Luther King, who was shot dead in a racist attack in Memphis in 1968.
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