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  • 5/14/2025
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00:00Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by these officers and to come back with not guilty.
00:03Wanted dead or unalive posters featuring three former Memphis police officers
00:08are appearing across the city after they were found not guilty in the brutal beating death
00:13of Tyre Nichols. The disturbing posters surfaced in the Cooper Young area targeting the officers
00:18who escaped conviction despite video evidence of the fatal encounter that shocked the nation.
00:23Tyre Nichols' mother, Roe Vaughn Wells, expressed her devastation at the verdict,
00:28My son was murdered by five Memphis police officers. He was murdered, and three of them got off.
00:34The acquittal has ignited raw emotions throughout Memphis, with residents grappling with what many
00:39see as a devastating failure of justice. The case involved five officers total, with only two facing
00:45convictions while three walked free. Representative Justin J. Pearson acknowledged the community's
00:51pain while discouraging vigilante actions. I don't condone those posters, but I do understand
00:57there's a deep hurt and agony and pain for people in this city right now. He urged citizens to express
01:03their emotions through non-violent means, noting that watching the videos of Nichols being beaten to
01:08death only to see not guilty verdicts does something to people's faith in the system.

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