‘There was nothing I could have done,’ fired EMT says on Nichols’ death
The pole-mounted camera shows the two Memphis Fire Department EMTs, multiple Memphis Police Officers and a Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy standing near Tyre Nichols. (Screenshot)
A fired MFD private said his failure to immediately render aid to Tyre Nichols on the scene of the Jan. 7, 2023, beating was because he did not think anything he could have done would have prevented Nichols’ death.
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city of Memphis Tyre NicholsJulia Baker
A lifelong Memphian, Julia Baker graduated from the University of Memphis in 2021. Other publications and organizations she has written for include Chalkbeat, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent magazine and Memphis magazine.
Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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Former officers downplayed use of force in Nichols’ traffic stop
Response-to-resistance forms filed by the former MPD officers who beat Tyre Nichols last year describe their own actions as “soft hand” techniques aimed at getting him into custody.
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