Police in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday launched physique digital camera footage from the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died three days after officers beat and pepper-sprayed him.

The footage (warning: it incorporates disturbing content material) provides a graphic depiction of officers demanding that Nichols get out a automobile following a questionable site visitors cease of the unarmed man.

Nichols is heard shouting “I didn’t do something” as officers strategy him with weapons pointed at him.

Officers will be heard shouting a number of obscenities at Nichols in the course of the arrest.

An officer threatens to make use of a Taser on Nichols, who replies to them to “cease” whereas he’s on the bottom surrounded by officers.

“Bitch, put your fingers behind your again earlier than I break you,” one officer is heard saying.

One other officer then says he’s going to knock Nichols “the fuck out,” threatening extra drive because the younger man is mendacity on the bottom.

“You guys are actually doing so much proper now. I’m simply making an attempt to go house,” Nichols informed police.

Officers can then be seen pepper-spraying Nichols and tasing him as he shouts once more, “I’m not doing something.”

Nichols, a FedEx employee who was identified for his love of skateboarding, was arrested after he was pulled over for alleged reckless driving. Officers have mentioned he fled the scene on foot and was captured. Nichols informed officers he was experiencing “shortness of breath,” and was hospitalized with serious injuries. He died on Jan. 10.

Officers haven’t disclosed a reason for dying, however Nichols’ household mentioned he suffered from cardiac arrest and kidney failure. His household alleges the arresting officers beat and pepper-sprayed him and shocked him with a stun gun.

On Monday, Nichols’ household, accompanied by civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, seen the physique digital camera footage of his arrest.

The site visitors cease occurred two minutes from Nichols’ house, his mom mentioned, and he was overwhelmed by police inside 80 yards of the place he lived.

Crump described the movies as “deplorable” and “heinous” throughout a Monday press convention.

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis known as the footage and beating of Nichols “incomprehensible” and mentioned the movies are about “the identical if not worse” than the photographs of the 1991 assault of Rodney King by police in Los Angeles.

The Memphis Hearth Division confirmed to HuffPost that two workers concerned within the “preliminary affected person care” of Nichols have been relieved of obligation pending an ongoing investigation. The division didn’t present additional remark.

Desmond Mills Jr., Justin Smith, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Emmitt Martin III have been recognized because the officers concerned in Nichols’ lethal arrest.

The officers have been part of the Memphis Police Division’s SCORPION squad, whose identify stands for Avenue Crimes Operation To Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods.

The police squad, launched by Davis in 2021, is tasked with dealing with violent crimes within the space.

The Memphis Police Division introduced Friday that following an inner investigation, all 5 officers concerned in Nichols’ arrest have been fired for violating division coverage and practices, together with these pertaining to extreme drive. All 5 officers have been charged with second-degree homicide by a grand jury.

Shelby County information say the officers have been moreover charged with two counts of official misconduct, one depend of official oppression, one depend of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated kidnapping.

The officers have been all launched on bond.

Activists and supporters gathered for a vigil for Nichols on Thursday night time in Memphis. An impartial post-mortem assessment by Crump and lawyer Antonio Romanucci indicated that Nichols “suffered in depth bleeding attributable to a extreme beating.”

On Friday, Crump and Romanucci demanded that the Memphis Police Division dismantle the SCORPION unit.

{A photograph} of Nichols in a hospital mattress confirmed him with a swollen eye and different elements of his face disfigured. His household mentioned his face was “unrecognizable.” Activists displayed the picture throughout protests in Memphis, urging officers to launch footage of the Jan. 7 arrest.

The case was handed over to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.

Final week, the Division of Justice and the FBI introduced a civil rights investigation into Nichols’ dying.