In Tennessee, jurors acquitted three former Memphis police officers of murder in the 2023 killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black father who died after the officers brutally beat him during a traffic stop. The lawyers representing Nichols’s family called the verdicts “a devastating miscarriage of justice.” Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith, along with two other officers, are awaiting sentencing on separate federal charges. Those two other officers — Desmond Mills Jr. and Emmitt Martin — are pleading guilty to the state charges and will not stand trial. We’ll have more on this case later in the broadcast.