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Bodycam Footage of Tyre Nichols Beating Draws Horror, Condemnation

Flanked by Rodney Wells, center, and RowVaughn Wells, the stepfather and mother of Tyre Nichols, civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks next to a photo of Tyre Nichols during a press conference in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 27.
Flanked by Rodney Wells, center, and RowVaughn Wells, the stepfather and mother of Tyre Nichols, civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks next to a photo of Tyre Nichols during a press conference in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 27.Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Officials in Memphis released police bodycam footage late Friday of the beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died from injuries suffered during a traffic stop earlier this month.

“I was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols’ death,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and Brown Americans experience every single day.”