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It already happened with George Floyd in Minnesota.

And with Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and later with Daunte Wright, all of them victims of the wave of

police brutality that has shaken the United States

for years and has once again written another tragic chapter.

This time it has happened in

Memphis

.

The deceased was called

Tire Nichols

, a 29-year-old black man, the

victim of a beating at the hands of five policemen

who ended his life on January 7.

The entire country is shocked by the publication of the almost hour-long video with the crime sequence.

The five fired police officers - Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith, Desmond Hills and Tadarrius Bean, all of whom are African-American - were indicted Friday on charges including

second-degree murder

, which carry sentences of a minimum of 15 years in prison. .

All but one have already posted bail and have been released from the Shelby County jail, claiming that no one in that quintet wanted to cause Nichols' death.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m.

Nichols was pulled over coming from work by him, a FedEx employee and father of a family,

for dangerous driving

.

According to the police report, a confrontation ensued and Nichols fled, leading to

a chase

and a second confrontation where the beating could have occurred.

The detainee, an avid

skateboarder

, was taken to a hospital in critical condition after noticing that he could not breathe.

According to his family, the young man suffered

a cervical fracture and cardiac arrest during the altercation

.

He died three days later in hospital from kidney failure.

The images have sparked fury in the black community in Memphis and the rest of Tennessee

, with schools and businesses in the downtown area closed yesterday for safety reasons.

There are several communities on alert for what may happen at the state level.

The authorities of Memphis (Tennessee, USA) published this Friday the video of the beating that several police officers gave

Nichols,

29

,

earlier this month .

On January 7, the police wanted to arrest

Tire Nichols,

for a traffic violation.

As the agents approached, a "confrontation took place" and "the suspect fled," the public force explained at the time.

Nichols was hit by officers, but complained of having difficulty breathing during the arrest and was hospitalized.

He died three days later.

Video footage from police officers' body-mounted cameras shows a group of officers arresting Nichols and attempting to bring him

down using a Taser stun gun

, then chasing him as he escapes, Afp reports.

In the following segments of the footage - which

runs for an hour

in total and offers audio only in parts -

Nichols is seen crying for his mother and moaning

as policemen repeatedly kick and punch him.

Fear of a spiral of violence

In Georgia, the governor of the neighboring state,

Brian Kemp

, has authorized the National Guard to be prepared to put an end to any outbreak of disorder or violence on the streets of Atlanta, after a week of protests following the death of the 26-year-old activist.

Manuel Terán

after being shot by a policeman.

The atmosphere is tense in several cities in the United States.

Meanwhile,

David Rausch

, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, has described the recordings as

"absolutely appalling"

, condemning the way the police officers act.

"I want to be very clear: what happened here does not reflect proper police intervention at all. This was wrong.

This was a crime

."

Authorities have explained that the footage is a combination of body and security cameras.

Although the official cause of death has not yet been released, lawyers for the family reported that the results of the independent autopsy they commissioned revealed that Nichols suffered

"extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating

. "

"When we got to the hospital, he was devastating," said the deceased's stepfather, Rodney Wells.

"All this shouldn't happen because of a traffic issue. I shouldn't be on a dialysis machine looking like this. That's inhumane," he said after making public the image of the young man fighting to stay alive, with a face full of blows.

The five involved in the death of the FedEx employee belonged to the Scorpion unit, created by the Memphis police department to combat

street crime

.

All of them were in unidentified cars when the deceased was arrested.

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