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On 03 Nov 2021, Harry Bignall <harrybignall68@yahoo.com> posted some news:slv0fc$f8f$14@news.dns-netz.com:

Ubiquitous wrote
 

Good work. Now move along, nothing to see here.

No criminal charges will be brought against a Memphis police officer who
was fired for his involvement in the traffic stop that led to the death of
Tyre Nichols, the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney said
Tuesday.

Nichols, 29, who was Black, was brutally assaulted after he was pulled
over Jan. 7 for alleged reckless driving, and he died three days later.
Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy explained in an update Tuesday why criminal charges against former Officer Preston Hemphill were not warranted.

Hemphill was at the scene of the traffic stop but was never present at the later scene where Nichols was seen on video being punched and struck with
a baton, Mulroy said.

“By no means do we endorse the conduct of Officer Hemphill at that first traffic stop,” Mulroy said. “But we do not believe that criminal charges are appropriate.”

He added that officials reviewed hours of body camera video and conducted
hours of interviews with Hemphill, who fired a stun gun at Nichols as he
was running away from the initial traffic stop.

Hemphill was fired for several violations, including using a Taser, police
said in February.

Mulroy said Tuesday that in reviews and analysis of body camera video,
Hemphill appeared to be trying to deploy the stun gun "because he saw
Nichols was not fleeing towards the neighborhood but was in fact heading towards an open car door of a police cruiser."

"That had to bear weight on our evaluation of his decision," he said.

<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-charges-ex-memphis-police- officer-tyre-nichols-stop-rcna82474>

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