WABI5: “The family of Tyre Nichols, the man who died days after a confrontation with Memphis police, spoke Monday for the first time since seeing footage from the event that led to his death.
The family retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump and attorney Antonio Romanucci to represent them following Nichols’ death.
Family members and attorneys got the chance to review the footage Monday before it was publicly released. They also met with Memphis police.
Crump said Nichols’ mother was unable to sit through more than a minute of the video. In that first minute, Tyre asked police officers, “What did I do?” Crump said.
Crump called the video “appalling, heinous, violent and troublesome.”
“We’re seeing evidence of what happens to Black and brown people from simple traffic stops,” Crump said. “You should not be killed from a simple traffic stop.””