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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 18, 2023

Federal investigators said today they have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of a 29-year-old man who died three days after an encounter with Memphis police, the Commercial Appeal reports. The U.S. attorney's office, in conjunction with the FBI Memphis Field Office and Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, said they are investigating officers who stopped motorist Tyre Deandre Nichols on Jan. 7 for a traffic violation. After what police described as two confrontations, Nichols was arrested and complained of a shortness of breath. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died on Jan. 10. The officers involved with the stop have been placed on leave.