The lawyer representing the family of Tyre Nichols, Ben Crump, said Friday that it is “police culture in America that killed” the 29-year-old in Memphis following an alleged traffic stop on Jan. 7.
Speaking at an event ahead of the release of bodycam footage, Crump called for systematic change among all police officers regardless of the color of their skin.
“Black people have simple encounters with police [and] they end up dead,” he said. “We don’t hear about these things with our White brothers and sisters.”
“And that’s where we got to continue to speak to this police culture in America,” he added.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks at a news conference with the family of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, as RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre, right, and Tyre’s stepfather, Rodney Wells, along with attorney Tony Romanucci, left, also stand with Crump, in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
