Skip to main content
Partly Cloudy icon
92º
WJXT logo

Go to the WJXT homepage

Join Insider
    • News
    • Watch Live
    • Local News
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • National
    • Politics & Power
    • Politics
    • I-Team
    • Trust Index
    • Community
    • Health
    • Money
    • Education
    • Consumer
    • Entertainment
    • Weird News
    • Weather
    • Weather News
    • Traffic
    • SnapJAX
    • Skycams
    • Alerts
    • Hurricanes
    • Plan and Prepare
    • Georgia
    • St. Augustine
    • Environment
    • Forecasting Change
    • News4JAX+
    • Watch Live
    • News4JAX Insider
    • How To Watch News4JAX+
    • Download News4JAX Apps
    • The Morning Show
    • River City Live
    • Podcasts
    • This Week In Jacksonville
    • Business Edition
    • Solutionaries
    • NEXTGEN TV
    • TV Listings
    • Florida Justice
    • Sports
    • Sports Videos
    • Jaguars
    • Jaguars Stats
    • News4JAGS Podcast
    • Gators Breakdown
    • Gators Stats
    • High School Sports
    • Varsity 4
    • Going Ringside Podcast
    • V4rsity Podcast
    • All Star Athlete
    • Olympics
    • Features
    • News4JAX Insider
    • Florida Justice
    • 4 Your Neighborhood
    • Events Calendar
    • Positively JAX
    • River City Live
    • Deals4JAX
    • News4JAX+
    • Women’s History Month
    • Look Local
    • Travel
    • Jacksonville Image Awards
    • Food & Recipes
    • Live Healthy
    • Contests & Rules
    • Talking Health
    • Pets
    • uSay Voting
    • River City Live
    • Watch River City Live
    • River City+
    • Eats & Treats
    • Beats
    • Wellness
    • Local Spotlight
    • Pets
    • Shopping
    • SnapJAX
    • SnapJAX Stories
    • Breaking News Photos
    • Newsletters
    • Sign Up For Newsletters
    • WJXT
    • Contact Us
    • Help Center
    • Careers at WJXT/WCWJ
    • SnapJAX
    • Meet the Team
    • Advertise with us
    • CW17
    • CW Program Guide
    • Bounce
  • News
  • Weather
  • News4JAX+
  • Sports
  • Features
  • River City Live
  • SnapJAX
  • Newsletters
  • WJXT
  • CW17
News4JAX.com
  • News
  • Weather
  • News4JAX+
  • Sports
  • Features
  • River City Live
  • SnapJAX
  • Newsletters
  • WJXT
  • CW17
  • BREAKING NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

LIVE RADAR: Weather Authority Alert Day through Sunday for Southeast Georgia

DEMETRIUS HALEY


No description available

What happened with the 5 police officers accused of crimes in Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating

Read full article: What happened with the 5 police officers accused of crimes in Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating

Three of five former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers have been acquitted on all state charges in the 2023 fatal beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.

No description available

Things to know about the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols

Read full article: Things to know about the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols

The acquittal of three former Memphis police officers of state charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols is the latest development in a case that prompted renewed calls for police reforms in the U.S. and led to a quest for justice by his family that persists more than two years after the 29-year-old Black man’s death.

No description available

3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he fled a traffic stop

Read full article: 3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he fled a traffic stop

Three former Memphis officers have been acquitted of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop.

No description available

Expert testifies that repeated strikes to Tyre Nichols' head were unnecessary and excessive

Read full article: Expert testifies that repeated strikes to Tyre Nichols' head were unnecessary and excessive

A police training expert testifying as a defense witness in the trial of three former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols acknowledged that kicks and punches to Nichols’ head were unnecessary and excessive.

No description available

Investigator: Ex-Memphis officer took photo of Tyre Nichols after fatal beating, shared it 11 times

Read full article: Investigator: Ex-Memphis officer took photo of Tyre Nichols after fatal beating, shared it 11 times

A cybercrime expert with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has testified that a former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took a photo of Nichols as he sat on the ground, propped up against a police car and struggling with serious injuries.

No description available

Memphis' mayor pushes back against feds' calls for major reforms of city's police force

Read full article: Memphis' mayor pushes back against feds' calls for major reforms of city's police force

Memphis’ mayor is pushing back against the need for a Justice Department deal to enact reforms in light of the scathing findings of an investigation into the Memphis Police Department.

No description available

Memphis police use excessive force and discriminate against Black people, Justice Department finds

Read full article: Memphis police use excessive force and discriminate against Black people, Justice Department finds

The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in 2023.

No description available

2 ex-officers convicted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols get home detention while 1 stays in jail

Read full article: 2 ex-officers convicted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols get home detention while 1 stays in jail

A federal judge has ruled that two former Memphis police officers convicted of obstruction of justice in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols will be released from jail ahead of sentencing in January.

No description available

Police delivered a 'beatdown' that killed Tyre Nichols, prosecutor says in trial closing

Read full article: Police delivered a 'beatdown' that killed Tyre Nichols, prosecutor says in trial closing

Closing arguments are underway in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights in a fatal beating.

No description available

Ex-officer testifies in tears he's sorry for Tyre Nichols beating. 'I made his child fatherless'

Read full article: Ex-officer testifies in tears he's sorry for Tyre Nichols beating. 'I made his child fatherless'

A former Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty to violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights testified in tears Tuesday, saying that he made Nichols’ young son fatherless, and that he’s sorry and wishes he had stopped the punches.

No description available

A former officer texted a photo of the bloodied Tyre Nichols to his ex-girlfriend

Read full article: A former officer texted a photo of the bloodied Tyre Nichols to his ex-girlfriend

A former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols sent his ex-girlfriend a photo of the badly injured man on the night he was punched, kicked and hit with a police baton following a traffic stop.

No description available

Officers' reports on fatal Tyre Nichols beating omitted punches and kicks, lieutenant testifies

Read full article: Officers' reports on fatal Tyre Nichols beating omitted punches and kicks, lieutenant testifies

A police lieutenant has testified that three former Memphis police officers broke department rules when they failed to say that they punched and kicked Tyre Nichols on required forms submitted after the January 2023 fatal beating.

No description available

Officers who beat Tyre Nichols didn't follow police training, lieutenant testifies

Read full article: Officers who beat Tyre Nichols didn't follow police training, lieutenant testifies

A police lieutenant has testified that three former officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols did not comply with Memphis Police Department training policies when they punched, kicked and hit the 29-year-old motorist with a baton after a traffic stop.

No description available

Officers pummeled Tyre Nichols because he fled, a form of 'run tax,' prosecutor says

Read full article: Officers pummeled Tyre Nichols because he fled, a form of 'run tax,' prosecutor says

Three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after pummeling him in an attack caught on video.

No description available

4 ex-cops charged in Tyre Nichols' death barred from police

Read full article: 4 ex-cops charged in Tyre Nichols' death barred from police

Four of five former Memphis police officers charged with murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols can no longer work as law enforcement in Tennessee.

No description available

1st officer in Nichols arrest accused of brutality at prison

Read full article: 1st officer in Nichols arrest accused of brutality at prison

Years before a Memphis police officer pulled Tyre Nichols from his car on Jan. 7, the officer was accused of taking part in the savage beating of an inmate at a county prison.

No description available

Jury may not hear cops' admissions in Tyre Nichols’ beating

Read full article: Jury may not hear cops' admissions in Tyre Nichols’ beating

It was a stunning revelation: One of the officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took a cellphone photo of the bloodied and handcuffed man and shared it with five other people.

No description available

Tyre Nichols documents: Officer never explained stop to him

Read full article: Tyre Nichols documents: Officer never explained stop to him

The officer who pulled Tyre Nichols from his car before police fatally beat him never explained why he was being stopped, newly released documents show.

No description available

Memphis officer took, shared photos of bloodied Tyre Nichols

Read full article: Memphis officer took, shared photos of bloodied Tyre Nichols

Documents released Tuesday provide a scathing account of what authorities are calling the “blatantly unprofessional” conduct of five officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop last month — including new revelations about how one officer took and shared pictures of the bloodied victim.

No description available

Records: Minor infractions for officers before Nichols case

Read full article: Records: Minor infractions for officers before Nichols case

Memphis police records show four of five Memphis officers charged with killing Tyre Nichols after violently beating him committed previous infractions.

No description available

DA: 5 Memphis cops 'all responsible' for Tyre Nichols' death

Read full article: DA: 5 Memphis cops 'all responsible' for Tyre Nichols' death

Five fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder and other crimes in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop.

BACK TO TOP
  • TV Listings

  • Email Newsletters

  • RSS Feeds

  • Contests and Rules

  • Contact Us

  • Careers at WJXT / WCWJ

  • Closed Captioning / Audio Description

  • WJXT Public File

  • WJXT EEO Report

  • WCWJ Public File

  • WCWJ EEO Report

  • Terms of Use

  • Privacy Policy

  • Do Not Sell My Info

  • FCC Applications

Follow Us
Visit our YouTube page (opens in a new tab)
Visit our Facebook page (opens in a new tab)
Visit our Instagram page (opens in a new tab)
Visit our X page (opens in a new tab)
Visit our RSS Feed page (opens in a new tab)
Get Results With OmneOmne Results Logo

If you need help with the Public File, call (904) 393-9801

At WJXT, we are committed to informing and delighting our audience. In our commitment to covering our communities with innovation and excellence, we incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance our news gathering, reporting, and presentation processes. Read our article to see how we are using Artificial Intelligence.


Graham Media Group LogoGraham Digital Logo

Copyright © 2025 News4JAX.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings.