Death by American Brutality.

NICHOLS, Tyre; KILLINGS by police; POLICE brutality; POLICE shootings; CRUELTY; POLICEWOMEN; MASS shootings; BLACK people

There are demands that Nichols "give" the officers his "(expletive) hands", and "lay flat, (expletive)", although at points he appears limp and is not moving at all and at others is moving slowly under an officer's body weight. And overall, data on deaths caused by police or even the relationship between officer race and officer conduct are so inconsistently collected by departments that patterns are difficult to verify. Officers lose sight of Nichols, chase him, curse and pant as they catch, kick, beat, and again pepper-spray Nichols while he is pinned to the ground. [Extracted from the article]

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