Tyre Nichols’ brother describes a never ending nightmare

“It’s like a never-ending nightmare,” Dupree instructed “CNN This Morning” on Tuesday.

He stated he does not must see it.

“As soon as I seen them photos from him in the hospital, I already knew that they treated my brother like an animal,” Dupree stated.

“They beat on him like he was nothing. I don’t have to watch the video to know that.”

Nichols, who was Black, was subdued on the bottom but constantly overwhelmed after a visitors cease by Memphis police on January 7.

He died three days later.

After public outrage over the ugly video, officers have introduced extra firings or disciplinary motion in opposition to public servants on the scene.

In addition to the firings of 5 Black Memphis cops – all of whom face homicide fees – officers have introduced the firings of three Memphis Fire Department personnel.

Two sheriff’s deputies have been placed on go away. And the police division acknowledged on Monday that two extra cops had been placed on go away.

“We are looking at everybody who had any kind of involvement in this incident,” from the officers and paramedics on scene to those that filed the paperwork, Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy stated on Monday.

Prosecutors moved “extraordinarily quick” with fees in opposition to the 5 officers “primarily responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols,” the prosecutor stated.

“As to everybody else, it’s going to take some time as we do that investigation, but I assure you the investigation’s ongoing.”

The launch of ugly footage of the assault on Nichols once more horrified a nation that is confronted a gentle stream of movies of police violence, particularly in opposition to individuals of color.

Beyond sparking protests from New York to Los Angeles and renewing requires broad police reform, the Nichols case has raised questions on police items in different cities just like the Memphis SCORPION squad whose officers stopped Nichols on the highway.

The lethal encounter began with police pulling Nichols over for what they initially stated was suspected reckless driving and unfolds at two areas.

Video launched on Friday exhibits Nichols operating away after officers yanked him out of a automobile and used pepper spray and a Taser to attempt to make him lie inclined; after which officers catching as much as him at a second location, the place he’s repeatedly kicked and overwhelmed.

After his arms are restrained and he is left slumped to the bottom, roughly 23 minutes go earlier than a gurney arrives on the scene.

The Memphis Fire Department introduced on Monday that two emergency medical technicians and a hearth lieutenant have been terminated over their response on scene.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the end of it. And I think we’re going to find there’s more to this as we go into the trial,” Memphis City Council member Jeff Warren stated.

“I don’t think we’re on top of this yet.”

“We need to make sure that we go through our police department and see where we were weak, what happened with our procedures, what happened with our oversight,” Warren stated.

Nichols’ brother feels responsible he could not save him

Dupree stated he felt it was his responsibility to guard his little brother. Now, he says he is racked with guilt as a result of he could not save him.

“My brother was trying to cooperate with them,” Dupree stated.

“If I was there, they would have had to kill me, too. Because I would have fought all of them.”

He stated he desires everybody to recollect how a lot pleasure Nichols delivered to the world.

“My brother’s legacy is everywhere right now. Everybody knows that my brother was an innocent person.

“Everybody is aware of that my brother was crammed with vitality. He was like the sunshine of the room.

“He cared about people. He put people before he put himself. He was very selfless. He was just, all-around, a great person to be around,” Dupree stated.

“It should never happen to anybody, but at the same time, when you see a person like that, and you know a person like that, it just takes a toll. … The world is going to miss a person like that.”

The fees, firings and folks positioned on go away up to now

Five Memphis cops have been fired January 20 after which indicted final week.

They face seven counts, together with: second-degree homicide, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping with bodily harm, aggravated kidnapping in possession of a lethal weapon, official misconduct and official oppression.

The 5 officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin and Desmond Mills Jr. — are anticipated to be arraigned February 17.

On Monday, police stated a sixth and a seventh officer have been positioned on go away with the opposite 5 on January 8 – and people two officers nonetheless are the topics of an inside investigation.

Police recognized one of many two officers as Preston Hemphill, who’s White. Police spokesperson Kimberly Elder declined to say whether or not Hemphill is being paid.

The metropolis on Friday launched body-camera and pole-camera surveillance footage of the preliminary visitors cease, in addition to the beating on the second website.

One of the body-cam movies reveals Hemphill – on the website of the preliminary visitors cease – fired a Taser at Nichols and ultimately stated after Nichols ran: “One of them prongs hit the bastard.”

Hemphill twice says to an officer who was with him: “I hope they stomp his ass.”

That body-cam video doesn’t present Hemphill on the second website, the place the county’s district lawyer has stated Nichols was overwhelmed and suffered his severe accidents.

Hemphill’s lawyer, Lee Gerald, stated his shopper – who hasn’t been charged – “was never present at the second scene.”

The seventh officer has not been publicly recognized.

“Officer Preston Hemphill and other officer’s actions and inactions have been and continue to be the subject of this investigation,” Memphis police stated in a news launch Monday.

“There are numerous charges still developing that are impending,” the news launch reads.

The fireplace personnel terminated over their response to the encounter are emergency medical technicians Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge and Lt. Michelle Whitaker, the hearth division stated on Monday.

The three have been responding to a report of “a person pepper sprayed” once they arrived on the scene of the lethal beating and located Nichols on the bottom, in accordance with the division.

The fireplace division’s investigation concluded that “the two EMTs responded based on the initial nature of the call and information they were told on the scene and failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of Mr Nichols,” the hearth chief stated in a news launch.

Whitaker had remained within the fireplace truck, in accordance with the assertion.

Pole-camera video launched on Friday exhibits that after the EMTs arrived and earlier than the ambulance arrived, first responders repeatedly walked away from Nichols, with Nichols intermittently falling onto his aspect.

Additionally, two deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office have been placed on go away final week pending an investigation, after video of the incident was launched.

“I have concerns about two deputies who appeared on scene following the physical confrontation between police and Tyre Nichols,” Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. stated on Friday.

Attorneys for 2 of the fired cops have commented to CNN.

Martin’s lawyer, William Massey, stated “no one out there that night intended for Tyre Nichols to die.”

Mills’ lawyer, Blake Ballin, instructed CNN the movies “produced as many questions as they have answers,” particularly relating to his shopper’s involvement through the deadly encounter, including that Mills arrived later than different officers and that his imaginative and prescient was impaired by the pepper spray used through the visitors cease.

“Some of the questions that remain will require a focus on Desmond Mills’ individual actions,” and “on whether Desmond’s actions crossed the lines that were crossed by other officers during this incident,” Ballin stated.

Attorneys for the opposite former officers didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

‘A gross collapse of the system’

“There is a reckoning coming for the police department and for the leadership,” Memphis City Council member Frank Colvett stated.

“She’s going to have to answer not just to the council but to the citizens– and really the world.”

After the hearth division firings have been introduced on Monday, an lawyer for Tyre Nichols’ household, Antonio Romanucci stated, “everybody on that scene was complicit in this man’s death, in one way, shape, form, or another, somebody failed Tyre Nichols.”

“They either failed by using excessive force; they failed him by severely beating him; they failed him by not intervening; they failed him by not rendering aid,” the lawyer instructed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday.

The lawyer stated Nichols’ household nonetheless is attempting to soak up the breadth of this multi-agency investigation, whereas additionally coping with the lack of their liked one.

“This is just such a gross collapse of the system that we are supposed to trust, that it really is unspeakable,” Romanucci stated.

The Nichols household is predicted to carry a news convention on Tuesday evening at Memphis’ Mason Temple Church of God in Christ headquarters, the place Martin Luther King Jr. gave his well-known final speech the day earlier than he was assassinated in that metropolis, in accordance with a news launch from their lawyer Ben Crump.