"Mom, mom, mom", the desperate screams of Tire Nichols during the beating at the hands of five police officers

• Shock in the US over the publication of the video of the beating of five police officers to Tire Nichols

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As David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, had warned hours before, the images of the beating of Tire Nichols were

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The five police officers involved in the assault on the 29-year-old, who they ended up beating to death, unleashed all their fury on the father of the family.

They kicked him in the head, repeatedly pepper-sprayed him and engaged in a fistfight with him while another colleague held him from behind.

Shortly after 6 p.m., several television networks in the United States began broadcasting recordings of what happened on the night of January 7 in a residential neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, when the five African-American agents stopped Nichols for reckless driving.

-a combination of body and security cameras-, it is clearly seen how the police officers work hard with the detainee despite having no option to defend themselves.

Nichols, who was working for FedEx, initially managed to dodge the agents and escape on foot, standing by his car as they tried to overpower him.

A few minutes later he is hit by the quintet

- and there he begins to receive a beating.

From the ground, the young man calls his mother desperately, screaming as he kicks and beats him incessantly.

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The policemen, far from showing compassion, continue to do their thing, attacking the young man lying on the ground.

In the video

before the ambulance that would take Nichols to the hospital arrives.

It took twenty-two minutes to arrive after the victim complained of not being able to breathe.

The four-part images come to light after weeks of demands from the family and the community in Memphis to find out exactly what happened that night.

, as several television networks warned when broadcasting it, but it does not clarify the exact reason why Nichols was arrested.

That alleged reckless driving of the deceased, on his way home after finishing his workday, could not be corroborated by the Memphis police department.

According to the person in charge, Cerelyn Davis, there is no evidence of any traffic violation.

A few days after the beating and death of the victim in hospital,

and have since been charged.

They face a second-degree murder charge that carries a sentence of between 15 and 60 years in prison.

The social outcry has been such that it seems difficult for them not to go to jail, aggravated by the harshness of the images.

Areva Martin, a civil rights attorney, said officers were well aware that kicking someone in the head could put their life in danger.

So the charges "are totally appropriate," she said.

"They are basically facing the rest of their lives behind bars."

President Joe Biden also reacted emotionally to the video broadcast on Friday afternoon.

and brown Americans experience every day."

Memphis police feared riots from protests following the release of the recordings.

Yet they were peaceful.

, who hours before had made a call to avoid all kinds of violence or looting.

They blocked a section of the highway and a bridge in protest.

There were also small demonstrations in other cities such as New York, Chicago or Sacramento, where Nichols had lived before moving to Memphis.

In a previous press conference, the victim's mother sent a message to those responsible for the death of her son.

"To the five police officers who murdered my son,

," RowVaughn Wells said.

"I'm going to pray for you and your families, because at the end of the day, this shouldn't have happened. This simply shouldn't have happened. We want justice for my son."

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