Tyre Nichols was an avid skateboarder. Here's how the skateboarding community remembers him
in Sacramento, when Wilson was about 12, and Nichols was in his early teens. “He sort of kept to himself a little bit,” says Wilson. “He was a little shy at first. You could tell he was sort of waiting to come out of his shell because, through the years, he became the goofiest, funniest guy I ever met. He would have his headphones in, always playing his music so freaking loud.” After a while, Nichols and Wilson began to strike up conversations, and they became close friends.
A fellow Sacramento skater, Jerome Neal, recalls Nichols pulling off his favorite trick, the “heel flip,” in which a skater flicks the board with a heel, flipping it in the air before landing back on the deck. “He had a mean heel flip,” says Neal, 31. “He could do it on command, any time of the day. His style was so unique. Just relaxed and laid back. The man had it going on, bro.”
Dijon Hills, like Nichols, was one of the few Black skaters in the neighborhood and they became friends.Cody Davidek grew up down the street from Nichols, who introduced him to skateboarding.established himself in Sacramento, he was newer to the skate scene in Memphis, where he’s lived since 2020. But according to Blakely, he passed the “vibe check” that made him welcome in the Black skate community there.
Nichols' sister, Kenyana Dixon, pays tribute to her brother at the vigil, wearing his image on her shirt and pendant.Mark Dillon for TIME
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