US Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the funeral tomorrow of African-American Tire Nichols, who died earlier this month after receiving a beating by the police.
The White House reported this Tuesday in a statement that the vice president, the first black person to hold this position (Harris is also the first female vice president in US history and the first person of Indian or Asian origin in office), will attend the funeral for Nichols, which will be held in Memphis.
The funeral is also expected to attend well-known civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharptonand the family of George Floyd, the African-American man killed by a police officer in May 2020, whose murder sparked the largest wave of protests and racial riots in the US since the late 1960s.
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who he lost his life in March 2020 by police shots during a search in his own home.
Nichols died at a hospital after being beaten by police officers when they arrested him on January 7 in Memphis.
The videos of the arrest were released last Friday and they show how the agents beat him with batons and kicked him in the head at the time of the arrest.
On Monday it was learned that the Memphis Police suspended two officerswho join five other agents expelled from the force – all of them African-American – and who face various criminal charges.
The two suspended this Monday, among which there is a white agent, are still being investigated.