Ex-Cops Charged With Murdering Tyre Nichols Now Accused Of Beating Army Veteran Three Days Prior

The five former soldiers are being sued by a man he claims to be a black Army veteran. MemphisPolice officers in Tennessee are charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols.

Monterrious Harris’ lawyers filed a suit in Tennessee federal court for $5 million in damages following the alleged violent encounter three days before Nichols was beat.

Harris claims he was waiting for his cousin in Memphis, a car that was parked at an apartment complex in Memphis, on January 4, when he saw armed members of now-disbanded Scorpion Unit masked and waiting. “suddenly swarmed” He asked him to get out of the car, but he didn’t immediately identify himself. “be shot.”

Harris believed he was being threatened with robbery and pulled his car to a stop. He then got out of the car, the lawsuit states. That’s when Harris alleges officers punched, stomped, and dragged him across the concrete until witnesses came outside in response to his shouts for help.

Harris was admitted to a hospital for treatment and kept in jail for several more days until his family could bond him, according the police. Fox News.

Harris claims that Harris is facing a lawsuit “false” charges, including evading arrest. He was also charged with drug and weapons violations. Harris’ cousin left a licensed and registered gun in the car without Harris knowing, The lawsuit states.

“Mr. Harris had great difficulty walking because his left leg was gashed from the assault,” the lawsuit says. “But for witnesses coming outside to observe after hearing Mr. Harris’ loud screams, Mr. Harris would likely have suffered the same fate as Mr. Nichols.”

Defendants in the lawsuit include Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. — who are the same five black officers charged with second-degree murder in the fatal beating of Nichols, a black 29-year-old FedEx worker. These officers were dismissed from Memphis’ police force and do not have lawyers. According to Insider.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office Previously stated It was investigating all those involved in the events that led up to, during and after Nichols’ beating. Late last month, Memphis police declared that it would be permanently Disbanded the Scorpion street crime unit.

Harris’ mother called Spence Partners Law while Harris was in jail, and the firm’s lawyers were the ones who found out the officers mentioned in the police report for Harris were the same ones charged in Nichols’ death, according to an Memphis report by ABC 24.

“We filed a lawsuit because we believe we can prove that there’s a policy and custom in MPD in which they violate the rights of young Black men like Monterrious,” Jarrett Spence, of the law firm.

The City of Memphis and four John Does were also listed as defendants in Harris’ lawsuit.

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