The funeral of Tyre Nichols – the 29-year-old Black man who was brutally beaten by police officers during a traffic stop in Memphis on 7 January and died three days later – will take place on Wednesday at 2pm ET.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, veteran civil rights campaigner the Reverend Al Sharpton, prominent attorney Ben Crump and the former mayors of Atlanta and New Orleans, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mitch Landrieu, will join Nichols’ family in paying their respects to the deceased, a FedEx driver, skateboarder and amateur photographer with a four-year-old son, originally from Sacramento, California.
