Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the funeral of African-American Tire Nichols, who lost earlier this month of January after being beaten by several Memphis police officers.
The White House reported in a statement that the vice president, the first black person to hold this position, will attend the funeral for Nichols, which will be held in Memphis.
The funeral is also expected to be attended by the well-known civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and the family of George Floyd, the African-American killed by a police officer in May 2020, whose murder sparked the largest wave of protests and racial riots. in the US since the late 1960s.
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who lost her life in March 2020 by police shots during a search of her own home, is also scheduled to attend.
Nichols died at a hospital after being beaten by police officers when they arrested him on January 7 in Memphis.
The videos of the arrest were released last Friday and they show how the agents beat him with batons and kicked him in the head at the time of the arrest.
On Monday it was learned that the Memphis Police suspended two officers, in addition to five other officers expelled from the force – all of them African-American – and who face various criminal charges.
The two suspended yesterday, including a white agent, are still being investigated.
With information from EFE
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