US on edge over video of fatal police beating

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Memphis (AFP) – The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.” The police officers, who are also Black, were charged with second-degree murder in the beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died in hospital on January 10, three days after being stopped on suspicion of reckless driving. “They had beat him to a pulp,” Nichols’s mother RowVaughn Wells told CNN, sobbing as she described him in hospital. “He had bruises …

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