In Tennessee, three former Memphis police officers have been acquitted of violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black father who died after the officers brutally beat him during a traffic stop in January 2023. The jury found just one of the officers, Demetrius Haley, guilty of the lesser charge of violating Nichols’s civil rights, causing bodily injury. Haley along with former officers Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith were all found guilty of witness tampering related to the cover-up of the deadly beating. Two other officers, Emmitt Martin and Desmond Mills Jr., pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges ahead of the trial. Click here to see our coverage of Tyre Nichols.