What'd you have?"Īt the time Nichols was mortally wounded, seated against a patrol car and with his hands cuffed behind his back.
The video showed the first emergency medical technician to treat Nichols first asked him, "What'd you have? We're trying to get you straight. Police body camera video of events after the beating captured officers claiming Nichols was high and expressing disbelief when no contraband was found in his car. 08% legal limit in Tennessee, and he had trace amounts of marijuana in his system, ABC reported. The Shelby County District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the five police officers, shared the report with the family before it became public, ABC said, citing one of the network's journalists who was in the room with the family at the time. The autopsy also found Nichols "died from blunt force trauma and the manner of death was homicide," according to a statement from the Nichols family attorneys, Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, sent to Reuters. Five police officers, all Black, have been charged with second-degree murder.
Nichols' death provoked widespread outrage after police video showed officers beating and kicking Nichols, 29, as he cried out for his mother near his family home in Tennessee.
May 3 (Reuters) - An autopsy showed Tyre Nichols had a legal amount of alcohol and a trace amount of marijuana in his blood when Memphis police beat the Black man to death after a traffic stop in January, ABC News reported on Wednesday, undermining police claims that Nichols was high.
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