Chris Lamb

May 14, 2023 | thenation.com | Lottie L. Joiner |Mychal Denzel Smith |Robin D.G. Kelley |Chris Lamb

Tyree Nichols called for his mother.1 The 29-year-old was on his way from work in Memphis when the police stopped him. The body-cam video showed a group of officers brutally beating him—kicking him, pepper-spraying him, even delighting in his pain. By the time his family got to him, he lay unrecognizable in a Memphis hospital, his face bruised and bloated.