"I'll blow your face off," former Memphis Police Officer Emmitt Martin III, currently one of five former officers charged in the killing of Tyre Harris, reportedly told Glenn Harris in August 2020.
The life of Tyre Nichols, who was allegedly beaten to death by several Memphis police officers during a traffic stop, was celebrated at a large funeral on Wednesday.
“Changing a rule doesn’t change a behavior,” Katie Ryan, the chief of staff for Campaign Zero, a group of academics, policing experts and activists working to end police violence, said.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills, Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
Memphis police officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith were fired on Jan. 20 following an internal probe into the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, pinned George Floyd to the ground and kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd died in the encounter.
The rapper Meek Mill's long travails in the legal system after finally over after outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf pardoned him for a misdemeanor gun charge from his teen years.
Aaron Dean, a former Fort Worth police officer, had been convicted last week of manslaughter in the on-duty shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in her home in 2019.
