The jury begins the fate of 3 former officers who are charged because of the death of Reifen Nichols

Memphis, tenn. – The fate of the three former police officers of Memphis, who were charged with the beating of Reifen-Nichols, was in the hands of 12 people who did not live in the city when the jury's advice began on Tuesday when the 29-year-old black man began.

The jury began to think about after a prosecutor and defender had submitted final arguments in the trial against Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith who have not guilty to do the second degree second degree second degree. They are already facing the possibility of a prison year after they were convicted of federal suspicions last year.

Nichols fled from one on January 7, 2023, traffic stop after being thrown out of his car, peppered and hit with a taser. Five officers who are also black caught up with him and hit, kicked and beat Nichols with a police staff and struggled to captivate him when he called for his mother near his house.

The film material of the blows, which was captured by a police collar camera, also showed that the officers who fought around, talked and laughed were fought as Nichols. His death led to nationwide protests, for demands on police reforms in the United States and intensive examination by the police in Memphis, a majority of the black city.

The jury for the state trial was selected in Hamilton County, which also includes chattanooga after judge James Jones Jr. had belonged to the case of people outside of Shelby County, which also includes Memphis. The officials of the officials had argued that intensive advertising made a fair jury difficult.

The officials are charged with the second degree murder, severe bodily harm, severe kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. The prosecutors have argued that the officials applied excessive violence in order to captivate Nichols with handcuffs. The officials also had the obligation to intervene and stop the blows and to say medical staff that Nichols had been hit in the head, but they could not do so, said the prosecutors.

The former Memphis officers Desmond Mill Jr. and Emmitt Martin were also charged in the case. They have agreed to make the state charges guilty and are not on trial. They already guilty in front of a federal court, where the conviction of all five civil servants is pending.

Defenders have tried to remove the allegations that the officials used unnecessary violence to subject Nichols. They argued that Nichols actively resisted the arrest by walking away and did not give his hands to officers so that he could be tied up with handcuffs. They also say that their use of violence corresponds to the police authority's guidelines.

Mills said that he regretted the failure to stop the strokes three days later to the death of Nichols through the trauma of Blunt Force trauma. Dr. Marco Ross, the medical examiner who carried out the autopsy, said that Nichol's tears and bleeding had suffered in the brain.

When Nichols had to struggle with Bean and Smith who kept him on the floor, Mills tried to pepper Mills, Nichols, but he sprayed himself, he said.

After Mills resigned to try to relax, he went to Nichols and hit a police staff three times. Mills said prosecutor Paul Hagerman that he had not hit the truncheon because he was angry with the pepper spray. Defenders said that the officer who acted with the most violence was Martin, who went into his head several times, but did not stood, but did not stood.

Mills admitted on the stand that he was obliged to intervene to stop the strokes, but not.

But Mills also said that Nichols actively resisted the arrest and did not meet the orders to present his hands to be caught.

During the trial, defender John Keith Perry Mills asked if he had not hit the truncheon, whether Nichols had only put his hands behind his back. Mills said no.

Perry also asked Mills whether he believed that Bean and Smith had Nichols so that Martin Nichols could meet. Mills said he didn't think this was the case.

Martin Vommermach, Smith's lawyer, found that credit and debit cards that were not part of Nichols were found in his car when it was searched for the strokes, and said it was probably why Nichols probably ran before the traffic stops. Defenders have argued that the fatal blows would not have taken place if Nichols had only tied up with handcuffs.

“This is Emitt Martin and Reifen Nichols,” said Nonmach.

Mills admitted that the officials had fear and exhausted, but said that some of the methods applied to Nichols corresponded to the police authority's guidelines, including the use of wrist locks and beating with a staff.

Mills admitted that Nichols never hit, kicked or rose to officers.

The five officers were part of a crime press team called Scorpion Unit, which was dissolved after Nichol's death. The team aimed against drugs, illegal weapons and violent criminals to collect arrests while sometimes applying violence against unarmed people

The process takes place months after the US Justice Ministry in December that a 17-month investigation showed that the police authority uses Memphis excessive violence and discriminates against black people.