Memphis Delays Release of More Findings From Tyre Nichols Investigation

The hour of body camera and surveillance footage that was released in late January instead showed in graphic detail how the stop became violent, as five officers, all Black men, forced Mr. Nichols from his car and threatened him, even though he did not appear to resist them. After one officer sprayed pepper spray at his face, Mr. Nichols broke away from them and ran toward his family’s house, which was nearby.

Officers soon caught up with Mr. Nichols and beat him for three minutes as he screamed for his mother and attempted to shield himself from their blows. According to internal affairs documents, one officer, Demetrius Haley, took a photo of Mr. Nichols, bloodied and propped up against a car, and sent it to at least five people.

Mr. Nichols was taken to a hospital, where he arrived in critical condition, and died three days later.

At a hearing last month, Mr. Bean, Mr. Haley, Mr. Martin, Mr. Mills and Mr. Smith pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges they face.

The Memphis Police Department fired the five officers shortly after Mr. Nichols’s death. A state agency is reviewing a request that all five be permanently barred from working as police officers elsewhere in the state.

A sixth officer, Preston Hemphill, was dismissed from the force in late January, after he was found to have fired a Taser at Mr. Nichols as he fled from the initial encounter with the officers. Mr. Hemphill, who is white, has not been charged with a crime, but the police department has asked that he, like the others, be banned from working for any Tennessee police force.

The other seven officers and four Fire Department employees have also not been charged with crimes, though they faced internal investigations. Two E.M.T.s, Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge, and Lt. Michelle Whitaker, all of whom responded to the scene of the beating, were fired on Jan. 30. Officials said Ms. Whitaker did not get out of the fire truck, and that Mr. Long and Mr. Sandridge waited 19 minutes to give care to Mr. Nichols.