Tyre Nichols suffered from 'extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating': Independent autopsy
Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death at the hands of police officers, suffered from "extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating," according to an autopsy. Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death last month at the hands of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers has triggered national outrage, suffered from " extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating ," according to a preliminary independent autopsy . "His observed injuries are consistent with what the family and attorneys witnessed on the video of his fatal encounter with police on January 7," the family of Tyre Nichols and their attorneys, Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, said in a statement. "Further details and findings from this independent report will be disclosed at another time." The attorneys hired their own "highly regarded, nationally renowned forensic pathologist" to complete the autopsy. The independent autopsy has not been released publicly. In this photo pr...