Tyre Nichols life was tragically cut short earlier this month after a violent arrest by five officers with the Memphis Police. 9News
The 29-year-old was the baby of his family, the youngest of four children.
Nichols moved to Memphis right before the COVID-19 pandemic and got stuck there when things shut down, his mother said. A couple times a week, these five or six friends would sit together, put their phones away so they could be present and enjoy each other's company, said Spates, who met Nichols about a year ago at a Starbucks in Germantown, Tennessee.But sports, particularly football, and Nichols' favorite team, the San Francisco 49ers, were regular topics.
Spates joins the rest of Nichols' family and wider Memphis community in being frustrated at the lack of information that has come out about the traffic stop that resulted in Nichols' death.He said he's had to do a lot of compartmentalising to be able to even speak about his friend. "This incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane, and in the vein of transparency, when the video is released in the coming days, you will see this for yourselves."
When he wasn't working, Nichols headed to Shelby Farms Park to skateboard, something he had been doing since he was six-years-old.
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