Just yards from his home, tyre nichols called out for his mother. But she couldn't hear him. Nichols died january 10th, three days after he was stopped for alleged reckless driving. Five officers of the memphis police department's now disbanded scorpion unit have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder. Many in this majority black city are still coming to grips with how the officers could so savagely beat someone who looked like them.