Video of Black Man’s Arrest Reminded Family of Rodney King, Lawyer Says
Tyre Nichols asked cops a simple question before he died, according to an attorney representing his family: “What did I do?”
Family members gathered with their legal team in downtown Memphis on Monday to express fresh outrage and grief after viewing video of the police encounter that preceded the 29-year-old Black man’s death in the wake of a traffic stop this month.
Ben Crump, the high-profile civil-rights lawyer representing Nichols’ family, described a horrific video—which has not yet been released to the public—that RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother, could not watch for more than a minute.