Washington: Protests erupted across the US after the release of a footage which showed five former police officers in Memphis brutally beating an African-American man who died three days later after the gruesome incident. The police officers, who are all Black and charged with murder, are seen taking turns to kick and punch the 29-year-old victim Tyre Nichols on January 7 as he screamed for his mother during the incident at a traffic stop, the BBC reported. On Friday, the Memphis Police Department released four graphic videos, totalling more than an hour of footage. The first video shows officers pulling Nichols out of his vehicle and shouting at him to get on the ground. “I didn’t do anything!” he says. Officers demand that he lie down flat. Within seconds, one of the officers fires a Taser at the victim, who leaps up and manages to run away. A separate video, from a CCTV camera mounted on a utility pole, shows officers beating Nichols after catching up with him in a residential area. Two officers are seen holding him down while others take turns kicking and punching him and striking him with an expandable baton. They drag him across the ground
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