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In Pics: Protests across US after Memphis released video of officers beating Tyre Nichols

Protests at Times Square in New York, a protestors smashing police car windshield
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Protests at Times Square in New York, a protestors smashing police car windshield

A protester is seen smashing the windows of a police car during the protest against the police assault of Tyre Nichols at Times Square in New York, United States.
 

Scuffles broke out at New York's Times Square protests for Tyre Nichols
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Scuffles broke out at New York's Times Square protests for Tyre Nichols

Scuffles broke out between police and protestors at New York's Times Square protests for Tyre Nichols. The video from police body-worn cameras and a camera mounted on a utility pole were posted online a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression in Nichols' death.
 

Hundreds gather to demand justice over police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis
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Hundreds gather to demand justice over police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis

Hundreds gather to demand justice over police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. US President Joe Biden said he was outraged and Vice President Kamala Harris called for an end to police misconduct after Memphis released body-worn camera video on Friday (January 27) showing Black motorist Tyre Nichols being beaten by police.

Protesters took to the streets of Memphis demanding justice for Tyre Nichols
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Protesters took to the streets of Memphis demanding justice for Tyre Nichols

Protesters took to the streets of Memphis on Friday (January 27) to demand justice for Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after five police officers beat him during a traffic stop earlier this month.
 

People chant 'Justice for Tyre' during Memphis police brutality protests
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People chant 'Justice for Tyre' during Memphis police brutality protests

People chanted "Justice for Tyre" during Memphis police brutality protests. Also chanting slogans such as "no justice, no peace", protesters marched from Martyrs Park towards Interstate 55, shutting down the traffic on the bridge that crosses the Mississippi River into Arkansas.