The family of Tyre Nichols, who died last month after a run-in with five police officers, filed an urgent appeal to the United Nations on Friday. They want the U.N. to condemn his death.
The appeal requests action for the"torture and extrajudicial killing" of Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, last month after a traffic stop.Four videos show officers beating, pepper-spraying, and aggressively wrestling Nichols on the ground. The videos also confirmed that five police officers jointly beat Nichols to the point that he went unconscious. He died in a hospital three days later.
“Today, we filed an Urgent Appeal before the United Nations asking it to condemn the tragic killing of Tyre Nichols, to demand transparency from the police department, and to demand that officer Preston Hemphill and all officers that participated in the incident are criminally charged,” attorneys for the family said in a statement, according to the Hill. “The video evidence shows that all who were involved in Tyre’s death committed reprehensible acts that require international condemnation.
Urgent appeals request that governments take appropriate measures to ensure that a person's rights are not deprived arbitrarily. It also ensures the right to fair proceedings before an independent and impartial tribunal as well as the right to life, according to the U.N. The five officers — Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., Justin Smith, Demetrius Haley, and Tadarrius Bean — have each been fired and charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of official misconduct, and one count of official oppression.Hemphill was the officer who pulled Nichols over in the traffic stop, authorities said. He has since been fired.
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