FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG:DISTURBING VIDEO RELEASED OF OFFICERS BEATING TYRE NICHOLS, REPEATEDLY!

Harrowing videos show police fatally beat Tyre Nichols, who cries out for his mother

The videos depicted Nichols being punched, struck with a baton, appearing to be kicked in the face, and sprayed with an irritant. They also captured him crying out for his mother and saying he was trying to go home. It took 26 minutes for a stretcher to appear at the spot where Tyre Nichols was slumped over on the ground after a Memphis police officer was first seen appearing to kick him in the face.

That was according to one of the four videos authorities released Friday night capturing the brutal assault on 29-year-old Nichols, who was pulled over during a Jan. 7 traffic stop and was dead three days later.

The footage showed four vantage points: Three videos were from officer body-worn cameras and one was from a police surveillance camera mounted on a pole. The videos depicted Nichols being punched, struck with a baton, seemingly kicked in the face and sprayed with an irritant. They also captured him crying out for his mother and saying he was trying to go home.

And they appeared to show police’s aggressive, chaotic and at times inconsistent demands of Nichols — like demanding he provide his hands while his arm was being held and he was being pulled to his feet. They also appear to show police punch him as he was being held. “These was monsters that did this to my son,” Nichols’ stepfather, Rodney Wells, said Friday night.

“My son weighed 150 pounds. Each one of these officers was over 200,” Wells said. “That’s 1,000 pounds beating on my son, using him as a piñata — all this unnecessary force that was really not needed for a kid that wasn’t resisting, or just trying to get home to his parents.”

A video of the initial traffic stop shows a chaotic scene as officers yank Nichols from the car, shout commands over one another and at times threaten him. Nichols is on the ground when he is sprayed in the face with what appears to be pepper spray or another irritant, and he runs, the videos appear to show.

Video shows the scene where officers have caught up to Nichols at another location. When the camera view pans over, the video shows Nichols on the ground. He is kicked and beaten, the video shows.