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Tyre Nichols was a Black man who had a mistrust of government and economic systems and identified with the Black Lives Matter movement
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Nichols had considered becoming a police officer as a way to change the system from within
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He was brutally beaten by police in Memphis and died three days later in a hospital
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All five officers involved in the incident were Black as is the Memphis police chief
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Nichols had moved from California to Tennessee due to the high cost of living in California
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He was part of a "New Great Migration" of Black Americans moving back to the states of the old Confederacy
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Nichols had a complicated personal life including the death of his father and a son with a previous partner
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He found solace in skateboarding and had been a part of a group of teenage nonconformists in California
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His friend describes him as peaceful laid back and a voice of reason among his group of friends
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His death has shocked Memphis and forced the city to confront a scenario that doesn't fit the narrative of racist violence
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