Two More Black Officials Fired In ‘Racist’ Tyre Nichols Death
View Source | January 31, 2023 7:59 am
- Two EMTs and a lieutenant with the Memphis Fire Department have been terminated for violating policy and protocol in their response to Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7.
- EMT-Basic Robert Long, EMT-Advanced JaMichael Sandridge and Lt. Michelle Whitaker failed to make an adequate assessment of the patient when they arrived on the scene, the fire department said.
- MPD announced that Preston Hemphill was the sixth Memphis police officer to be relieved of duty as a result of the investigation into Nichol’s death, while the seventh officer relieved of duty has not yet been named.
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