US police brutality: Councilwoman questions death of Tyre Nichols

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Councilwoman Patrice Robinson, who represents the neighbourhood where the family of Tyre Nichols – who died earlier this month in Memphis, Tennessee, after police beating – live, has called the attack overwhelming and “inhumane”.

She wants answers as there are still a lot of unanswered questions into the death.

Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo from Memphis, US.

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