The five officers are already facing state-level charges for beating Nichols, who died in the hospital three days later.

The five officers are already facing state-level charges for beating Nichols, who died in the hospital three days later.
Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child were killed by police in Ohio in incident family says could have been avoided.
Six white officers have agreed to sentences of between five and 30 years, recommended by Mississippi prosecutors.
Tou Thao, convicted in state court for involvement in 2020 killing, sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
The investigation centres on questions of discrimination in the wake of the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
The Black teenager’s killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the US civil rights movement.
The 1955 lynching of Till, a Black teen, and his mother’s subsequent activism helped propel US civil rights movement.
Killing of Black man by fellow subway rider sparked protests that led to eventual charges of manslaughter.
Police killed the 17-year-old named Nahel M early on Tuesday, sparking fury in the Parisian suburbs.
Report details abuses against Black residents long before the May 2020 killing of Floyd captured the world’s attention.
Change comes as US continues to grapple with prevalence of statues and sites honouring members of Confederacy.
Ron DeSantis, Florida governor and likely US presidential candidate, says programmes impose an ‘ideological agenda’.
US judge finds ex-Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao guilty of aiding and abetting in Floyd’s May 2020 killing.
The brutality of Till’s 1955 lynching, on display at his open-casket funeral, galvanised the US civil rights movement.