Ex-Cops Charged With Murdering Tyre Nichols Now Accused Of Beating Black Army Veteran

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 that he was waiting in a car for his cousin at an apartment building in Memphis on January 4, when masked members of the now-disbanded Scorpion Unit attacked him. “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 stepped out of his car holding his hands up. 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 treated at a hospital and held in jail until his family could post bond. Fox News.

Harris claims that Harris is facing a lawsuit “false” charges, including evading arrest. He was also charged for various drug- and weapon 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 yet have lawyers. Insider.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office As stated previously It was investigating all those involved in the events that led up to, during and after Nichols’ beating. The Memphis police said late last month it was establishing a permanent headquarters. 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 Report by ABC 24 Memphis.

“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 from the law firm said this.

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

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