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California skate park named for Black motorist fatally beaten in police traffic stop

Officials have dedicated a California skate park in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man prosecutors say was beaten to death last Janaury by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop. An avid skateboarder, Nichols spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento. City officials and others held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated skate park now named for Nichols. Nichols moved to Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and lived there with his mother and stepfather. He enjoyed photography — especially taking photos of landscapes and sunsets. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” Nichols w...

DC police officers found guilty in fatal pursuit of man on electric scooter

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Two Washington, D.C., police officers have been found guilty in the 2020 death of Karon Hylton-Brown during a vehicle chase. Two Washington, D.C., police officers were found guilty in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown during a police pursuit. On Oct. 23, 2020, Hylton-Brown was driving an electric scooter without a helmet on a sidewalk when two Metropolitan police officers attempted to stop Hylton-Brown. Body camera footage released by the MPD shows officers following Hylton-Brown down an alleyway, where he is hit by a civilian's car as Hylton-Brown turned onto a busy street during the chase. He died at a hospital a few days later, according to officials. In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, the mother of Karon Hylton holds a candle as friends and family gather for a vigil in Hylton's memory two weeks after he was involved in a fatal traffic collision in Washington, D.C. Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP, FILE The officer who led the chase, Terence Sutton, was found guilty of second-...