Unanswered questions from videos of Tyre Nichols’ arrest
The footage shows a brutal beating but we still don’t know why officers decided to stop his car. …
That is exactly what they do in the videos that captured the second encounter which began at 8:32pm. For several minutes, police punched and kicked him, in the body and the head, while Mr Nichols cried for his mother. One officer is seen wandering away, breathing heavily. Almost a minute later, he returns to the scene, pulls out his extendable baton and strikes Mr Nichols repeatedly.