Three members of the Memphis Fire Department who responded to the violent arrest of Tire Nichols have been fired.
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The fire department made the announcement.
Among the three people are first responder Robert Long and JaMicheal Sandridge, and Lt. Michelle Whitaker.
According to the fire department, first responders did not perform a proper assessment of the patient.
Their actions or inactions during this night do not meet the expectations of the Memphis Fire Department.
These dismissals come the same day that a sixth police officer is implicated in the brutal death of Tire Nichols.
Preston Hemphill, a white police officer, “was suspended from the start of the investigations (…), along with the other officers”, local police spokeswoman Kim Elder said in a statement, without giving more details. details.
On January 7, 29-year-old Tyre Nichols was arrested by police officers from a special unit in Memphis, who accused him of a traffic violation: badly beaten, he died three days later in hospital .
The images of the tragedy, captured by the on-board cameras of the agents and the surveillance cameras, were made public on Friday.
We see the police brutally pull the young man out of his vehicle. Pinned to the ground, he is sprayed with tear gas and targeted by an electric pulse gun. He then fled on foot to his mother’s home. Caught, he is beaten with kicks, fists and truncheons.