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Mourners gather in South Africa for funeral of controversial Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi – CNN
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‘Like Moses’: Hundreds of thousands attend funeral for Rabbi Gershon Edelstein – The Times of Israel
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Phoebe Bridgers Calls Out Trolls Who ‘Bullied’ Her on the Way to Her Dad’s Funeral: ‘Grow the F— Up’ – Billboard
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After Tyre Nichols funeral, Biden faces pressure on policing – The Associated Press – en Español
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VP Kamala Harris, Rev. Al Sharpton and family honor Tyre Nichols at his funeral – FOX13 News Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tyre Nichols, who died on January 10, 2023, three days after five former Memphis Police officers were caught on camera beating the 29-year-old at the intersection of Ross Road and Raines Road, was honored by family and dignitaries at his funeral service February 1.
Nichols’ funeral was held at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith, the five former Memphis Police officers which MPD said were seen beating Nichols in that video, were all charged with two counts of official misconduct, one count of official oppression, one count of second-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated kidnapping.
TYRE NICHOLS’ MOTHER, FAMILY AND MOURNERS SAY GOODBYE
“For this to happen to him is just unimaginable,” said RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’ mother.
Nichols was laid to rest, Wednesday, at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis.
“I promise you the only thing that’s keeping me going is I believe my son was sent here on an assignment from God,” said Wells.
Nichols’ mother, brother and siblings spoke at the funeral.
“We’re looking forward to getting justice for all the families over there, not just ours,” said Rodney Wells, Nichols’ father.
The Reverend Al Sharpton eulogized Nichols.
“Let’s get rid of qualified immunity and see if you learn the same manners you have on the white side of town,” Rev. Sharpton said. “‘Well reverend, you don’t understand. How are they going to keep crime down in the Black community and at the same time not be tough and rough?’,” Rev. Sharpton continued. “Well, they do it the same way they do it on the white side of the town and they keep the crime down without rough and touch. How do you have the same department and keep crime down on one side of town without beating folk to death, but you can’t do it on the other side of town? I can’t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, I believe if that man had been white you wouldn’t have beat him like that, that night … In the city that Doctor King lost his life, not far away from that balcony you beat a brother to death. There’s nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us who fought to open doors and you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through those doors,” said Reverend Sharpton.
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Tyre Nichols’ funeral concluded around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Following the service, Ben Crump and the Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference to answer questions about Nichols’ death investigation.
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Tyre Nichols’ stepfather said that when he and his wife found out about Nichols’ death, “it was surrounded by lies and deceit.” Watch below what they had to say at their son’s funeral:
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Tyre Nichols’ brothers and sisters share memories, stories and a poem in his honor:
Nichols’ brother shared the story of how Tyre got his name. He said it came from the movie “Silverado.”
One of his brothers said that as a child, Ty, as they referred to him, loved watching cartoons with a bowl of cereal.
One of his sisters said that Nichols was the baby brother, with 11 years between him and her.
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Ben Crump, the Tyre Nichols’ family attorney, demands justice in Nichols’ death:
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The Rev. Al Sharpton announced that director Spike Lee is in attendance along with Vice President Kamala Harris before introducing Tyre Nichols’ parents.
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Watch the Rev. Al Sharpton’s eulogy in full below:
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In a speech, Ben Crump, the Nichols’ family attorney, pointed out that Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, was also in attendance and said that both Tyre Nichols and Taylor had the same birthday: June 5, 1993.
Taylor was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 13, 2020, during a botched raid of her apartment.
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“This is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of the people who had charged in keeping them safe,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in her speech.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was brought up to the podium to speak at Tyre Nichols’ funeral. In a seemingly impromptu speech that lasted about 5 minutes, she said that if it wasn’t for the “violent act” by the Memphis Police officers, “Tyre Nichols would be with us today.”
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Mississippi Blvd Celebration Choir continues celebrating life of Tyre Nichols:
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Dr. Rev. Keith Norman addressed those in attendance in a nearly three-minute-long speech.
“Look, God’s home is now among his people. He shall live with them and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes and there will be no more death, no more sorrow, no more crying and no more pain. These things are gone forever and the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new and then he said to me, ‘Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true,” Norman said while reading new testament scripture during the service.
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“Our faith gives us the confidence that as we stand if God is for us, who can be against us? So today, as we celebrate Tyre’s life and comfort this family, we serve notice to this nation that the rerun of this episode that makes black lives hashtags has been canceled and will not be renewed for another season. We have come and we shall overcome in the struggle for justice for our brother Tyre Nichols,” said Dr. J. Lawrence Turner, in part, during an introduction that lasted nearly five minutes.
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Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church Celebration Choir welcomed those who came to celebrate the life of Tyre Nichols.
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The funeral is scheduled to start with a procession by Rev. Al Sharpton, Clergy and Nichols’ family. The Celebration Choir will then play a musical selection followed by Old Testament scriptures read. Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Nichols of Freedom’s chapel Christian Church will then hold a prayer of comfort. The Celebration Choir will play another musical selection followed by a reading of Nichols’ obituary and a photo montage. Rev. Dr. J. Lawerence Turner will then conduct the introduction of the eulogist, followed by another musical celebration by the Celebration Choir. Rev.
Al Sharpton will then give Nichols’ eulogy and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Nichols’ family, will hold a Call to Justice. Nichols’ family will then hold reflections and Rev. Rodney Woodley, Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher, Bishop Marvin Thomas and Bishop Brandon Porter will all provide words of comfort. Special guests and elected officials in attendance, including Vice President Kamala Harris, will be acknowledged and then the benediction will be held by Rev. Deves Toon, the National Field Director of the National Action Network.
Just got my hands on the official program for Tyre Nichols’s funeral that will happen today. It details who will all speak and possibly any needed additions. The funeral delayed until 1pm. pic.twitter.com/8Hq5aPDL72
— Jeremy Pierre FOX13 (@JeremypierreFOX) February 1, 2023
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FOX13 cameras were rolling as Nichols’ casket was rolled into the church just after 10 a.m.
A hearse just arrived at the church where home going service for Tyre Nichols will happen today at 1 pm. The funeral delayed due to weather conditions affecting travel plans. pic.twitter.com/gDkDzgjIsb
— Jeremy Pierre FOX13 (@JeremypierreFOX) February 1, 2023
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Tyre Nichols updates: Mourners honour ‘beautiful person’ at Memphis funeral as family urges Congress to act
‘We mourn with you’: Kamala Harris gives passionate speech at Tyre Nichols’ funeral
A funeral for Tyre Nichols is underway in Memphis, more than three weeks after the 29-year-old Black man was fatally beaten by a group of police officers on 7 January. He died in hospital three days later.
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the congregation at at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, where Rev Al Sharpton also delivered the eulogy and prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump issued a “call to action” in the wake of Nichols’s death and the police killings of Black Americans.
Rev Sharpton condemned the actions of the Black officers who are charged with Nichols’s murder, arguing that the sacrifies of civil rights leaders like Dr Martin Luther King Jr paved the way for their public service.
“People had to march and go to jail and some people lost their lives to open the doors for you. How dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing?” he said.
City officials released the prior disciplinary records for the five officers who are now charged with murder, revealing that four of them had prior complaints against them.
Full story: Kamala Harris speaks at Tyre Nichols funeral in Memphis calling on Congress to pass police reform legislation
Vice President Kamala Harris urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, bipartisan police reform legislation that passed the House of Representatives in 2021 but stalled in a deadlocked Senate with Republican opposition.
The bill, named in honour of the Black man who was murdered by Minneapolis police officers in 2020, was co-authored by then-Senator Harris.
“Let the memory of Tyre shine a light on the path toward peace and justice,” Ms Harris said in her brief remarks.
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 09:00
‘We mourn with you’: Kamala Harris gives passionate speech at Tyre Nichols’s funeral
Vice President Kamala Harris was invited to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols by his mother and stepfather, and the Rev Al Sharpton invited her to address the congregation gathered in Memphis on Wednesday.
She told his parents that “the people of our country mourn with you” and praised them for their “strength, courage, and grace”.
‘We mourn with you’: Kamala Harris gives passionate speech at Tyre Nichols’ funeral
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 08:00
‘Blood on their hands’: Tyre Nichols’ mother warns lawmakers against blocking George Floyd bill
Wednesday’s funeral for Tyre Nichols in Memphis saw a re-energised call for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, federal legislation that was passed by the House of Representatives in 2021 but has otherwise stalled in Congress.
Tyre Nichol’s mother says ‘blood on the hands’ of those who don’t pass George Floyd bill
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 07:00
‘The police are not always telling the whole truth’
“Police are partisan actors just like everyone else in power,” writes The Independent’s Josh Marcus, reflecting on his coverage of policing and criminal justice. “It’s vital to take their claims with a grain of salt.”
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 05:00
‘Elite’ police units in spotlight after brutal killing by Scorpion officers
Memphis Police Department’s now-disbanded SCORPION unit – which stands for “Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods” – was introduced in October 2021. It was dissolved in the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’s death.
The Independent’s Graeme Massie examines several similar controversial units in departments across the US that have been accused of abuse and excessive force.
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 03:00
Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Tyre Nichols’ beating to shooting of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt
Far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene invoked the fatal shooting of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt after the mention of Tyre Nichols, who was fatally beaten by police.
She then suggested that people who have been jailed for their roles in the insurrection are facing “civil rights abuse” in jail.
Ms Greene went on to say that Congress was doing nothing to address the treatment of other participants in the attack, many of whom remain incarcerated ahead of their respective trials.
There’s a simple reason for that: Ms Babbitt was part of a crowd that was actively trying to breach a door that had been barricaded in a restricted area. She was shot by an officer while attempting to climb through a window that her fellow rioters had broken. Federal prosecutors have closed the case and the officer was cleared of wrondoing.
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 02:00
Initial Memphis police report falsely claims Tyre Nichols ‘fought’ officers
A leaked incident report on Tyre Nichols’ arrest and fatal beating by Memphis police officers contains glaring inaccuracies that were later exposed after the release of bodycam and surveillance footage.
The report, written two hours after Nichols’ beating on 7 January, claimed that the 29-year-old was “irate” and refused lawful detention, tried to start a fight with officers, and also attempted to take an officer’s gun, during an initial traffic stop.
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 01:00
ICYMI: Four of five officers charged with murdering Tyre Nichols had prior complaints, records reveal
Four of the five former Memphis Police Department officers charged for the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols were suspended or reprimanded in prior incidents while working for the department, according to recently unveiled personnel files.
The officers faced little if any consequences, according to the city’s records of their cases, and they were praised in at least two instances, with other officers describing their actions as one-time events.
Alex Woodward2 February 2023 00:00
Watch: Daughter of Rodney King reacts to video of Tyre Nichols
‘They run because they fear for their lives’: Daughter of Rodney King reacts to video of Tyre Nichols
Alex Woodward1 February 2023 23:45
‘I’m Just Trying to Go Home’
LaToya Yizar, who says her mother was Tyre Nichols’ godmother, read a poem at his funeral invoking the words he told officers the night he was beaten.
From the lectern at Mississippi Boulevard Baptist Church in Memphis, she read “I’m Just Trying to Go Home”.
In his eulogy, the Rev Al Sharpton said that “home is not just a place.”
“Home is where you are at peace. Home is where you don’t have to keep your dukes up. Home is where you’re not vulnerable,” he said. “Home is where everything is all right.”
Alex Woodward1 February 2023 22:41
Graceland Live Stream: Watch Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral and family’s final farewell
The funeral of Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock legend Elvis Presley, takes place on Sunday, January 22, which you can follow on our stream above.
The terrible news of the passing of Lisa Marie hit the world on January 12, as the musician died suddenly from a heart attack at age 54.
Lisa Marie suffered from drug addiction at various stages of her life and it is said that she was finding it very difficult to cope following the premature death of her 27-year-old son in 2020.
Cardiac arrest
According to the New York Post, Sgt. Sean Maloney of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a call in the 5900 block of Normandy Drive in Calabasas around 10:40 a.m. Thursday at the request of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Firefighters arrived on scene, administered CPR and she was transported to West Hills Hospital around 11:17 am. Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla (77), confirmed her daughter’s health status via a social media post a couple of hours before her death.
She will be buried alongside her father and her son
Presley will be buried at Graceland, just like her father and grandparents, while her son is also buried on the same site.
The family appealed to those who wish to send a donation to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation, an organisation which provides support to various charities related to the arts and education
‘Do not let Wy come to my funeral. She’s mentally ill’: Naomi Judd’s devastating suicide note
Naomi Judd left a suicide note insisting her daughter Wynonna was barred from her funeral – and claimed she was mentally ill.
The Post-it-style paper was found near the 76-year-old’s body after she shot herself dead at her Tennessee mansion in April.
It said: ‘Do not let Wy come to my funeral. She’s mentally ill.’ The word ‘not’ appeared to have been underlined.
The note was among a series of documents released by Williamson County Sheriff’s Department this week.
Wynnona did attend the funeral, a source told Radar Online, and believes the note was written when her mother was not in her right mind.
The cops also shared images of the country music star’s blood-stained bedding as well as a photograph of a gun on her nightstand.
Meanwhile they made public a series of notes written by a deputy who attended the crime scene, saying Naomi had threatened to kill herself ‘half a dozen times’.
The Judds – daughters Wynonna, 58, Ashley, 54, and husband Larry Strickland – tried to prevent the police report being made public, but dropped the case in December.
Naomi Judd left a suicide note beside her bed, insisting her daughter Wynonna should not attend her funeral
Naomi Judd (right) is seen with her daughter Wynonna (left), in one of their final appearances in public. She is pictured waving at crowds at the CMT Music Awards on April 11, 2022
Sheriffs released photos of the scene where Judd took her own life
The startling images from the scene showed the Post-it-style note stuck to what appeared to be a magazine.
It also showed her grand bed covered in blood that had stained her sheets and pillow after the tragedy.
Meanwhile a deputy’s notes shed more light on what happened the day she died, including conversations cops had with the family.
Strickland, her husband of 33 years, was in Europe at the time of her death and the police report noted she did not like being alone.
‘Didn’t like being alone/Larry in Europe,’ a sheriff’s deputy wrote, in a handwritten note from the scene.
‘She threatened to kill herself a half a dozen times, guns were involved. She locked herself in her bedroom. She would threaten to shoot the people who took her (illegible.)’
The police report also details how Ashley found her mother and comforted her as they waited 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at the Leipers Fork home, 25 miles south of downtown Nashville.
Ashley found her mother in a manic state and called the family doctor, Dr Ted Klontz. The actress told police her mom screamed: ‘Kill me, kill me now. I don’t want to live!’
She said she replied: ‘Now, mom, you know I’m not going to do that.’
Ashley texted Klontz, writing: ‘She’s having an episode. Yelling and crying and pacing … Emergency … Please come to mom’s … Now.’
When Klontz arrived, she told him: ‘She was screaming and speaking in tongues.’ Ashley said her mother calmed down when the doctor arrived, and later left them alone to discuss her condition.
When she returned to the room, she found her mother with a bullet wound to the head. She told the doctor: ‘She did it. She finally did it.’
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (center) and her sister Wynonna Judd (right)
Naomi Judd’s home in Tennessee where she was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
In a harrowing essay in The New York Times, Ashley in August described how discovering her mother was ‘the most shattering day of my life.’
‘The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,’ she wrote.
But instead of being able to comfort her mother in her dying moments, Ashley said police officers harshly interrogated her and kept her from her mother.
‘I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading,’ she wrote.
‘I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia.’
Ashley said she was in such a state of shock after she found her dying mother that she answered questions from police she did not want to.
She said: ‘I would never have answered on any other day’ and never thought to consider whether the public would later have access to it.
‘In the immediate aftermath of a life-altering tragedy, when we are in a state of acute shock, trauma, panic and distress, the authorities show up to talk to us,’ she wrote.
‘Because many of us are socially conditioned to cooperate with law enforcement, we are utterly unguarded in what we say.
‘I never thought to ask my own questions, including: Is your body camera on? Am I being audio recorded again? Where and how will what I am sharing be stored, used and made available to the public?”
According to the report, the gunshot that killed Judd ‘perforated through the right side of the scalp and entered the skull through an entrance-type gunshot wound’
The country superstar died of a self-inflicted bullet wound in April 2022 at the age of 76
Ashley Judd (left) with her mother Naomi Judd (right). Ashley and her family filed a petition to seal police records of interviews taken in the moments after Naomi’s suicide last April. The family dropped their efforts in December
Both Ashley and Wynonna were written out of their mother’s will, with it left to Strickland to make decisions over her estate and assets.
The Judd family said in a statement confirming her death: ‘Our beloved mother and wife succumbed to mental illness.
‘Everyone who has gone through this tragedy understands that in the depths of a mental health crisis, thinking is profoundly distorted.
‘Moreover, the worst days are never representative of the comforts and pleasures of the days free from the disease.
‘In the aftermath of this tragedy, our family has tried to grieve, together, with our community, and importantly, with the privacy that everyone who loses a family member deserves.
‘We have always been a forthright and open family about both our hardships and the depth of our love for each other.
‘In this particular matter, however, we ask for privacy, because a death with privacy is a death with more dignity.’
The Judds were the most successful country singers of the 80s, winning five Grammys, nine CMAs, and selling 20million records.
In the immediate aftermath of their mother’s death Ashley and Wynonna supported each other in their loss, attending her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, May 1 – the day after their mother’s suicide.
Naomi and Wynonna Judd pictured in their heyday
On May 29, one month after her mother’s death, Wynonna wrote an emotional Instagram post in which she spoke of her unbearable grief and her fear that she would never be able to ‘surrender to the truth’ of the way her mother left this life
Naomi had a tumultuous upbringing – and in part she attributed her depression to the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of an uncle when she was just three.
When she was 22, Naomi was raped and beaten by an ex-boyfriend, a trauma that saw her flee Los Angeles for rural Kentucky, where she lived with her children on welfare while training to become a nurse.
They lived in a home with no electricity, phone, television or indoor plumbing.
Naomi moved to Nashville when she qualified and ultimately became head nurse in an intensive care unit.
It was there that she learned a patient’s father was in the music industry. She made a tape of herself singing with Wynonna, gave it to him and ‘The Judds’ career in music was launched.
On May 29, one month after her mother’s death, Wynonna wrote an emotional Instagram post in which she spoke of her unbearable grief and her fear that she would never be able to ‘surrender to the truth’ of the way her mother left this life.
She wrote about ‘personal healing,’ her sense of being ‘helpless’ and the few things she knew in the face of such despair and drama.
She said she would continue to fight for her faith, herself and her family, to continue to ‘show up & sing.’
And she vowed to ‘break the cycle’ of addiction and dysfunction that has stalked the Judd women.