Officers pummeled Tyre Nichols because he fled, a form of ‘run tax,’ prosecutor says
A framed picture of Tyre Nichols sits between his parents, RowVaughn and Rodney Wells at Raleigh Springs Skate part on what would have been her son's 31st birthday June 5, 2024. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Rogers used the term “run tax” — police slang for disciplining a subject who tries to escape — during her opening statements in federal court Wednesday.
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Trial’s first witness is ICU nurse who admitted Tyre Nichols
A nurse practitioner who treated Tyre Nichols at St. Francis Hospital described the moment the victim’s mother arrived at the hospital and saw her son for the first time after the beating.
Opening statements in trial of former Memphis officers to begin Wednesday
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