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DEATH OF TYRE NICHOLS

Video shows brutal police beating

It took 22 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Tyre Nichols, 29, died three days later.

Memphis police officers shocked, pepper-sprayed, kicked, punched and swung a baton at Nichols as he screamed repeatedly for his mother, the footage showed.

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