A defense attorney for one of the Memphis cops charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols said 'no one' 'intended' for him to die. Nichols' family isn't buying that argument.

• An attorney for one of the cops charged in Tyre Nichols' death said nobody "intended" for him to die. 
• But a lawyer for the victim's family told Insider the officer's actions were "designed to harm."
• Prosecutors say Nichols was brutally beaten by police in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.

A defense attorney for one of the five fired Memphis, Tennessee, police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols said the cops never "intended" for the young Black motorist to die.

But a lawyer for Nichols' family said the officers' "actions were designed to kill." 

William Massey, an attorney for Emmitt Martin III told reporters on Thursday shortly after Martin and four other Memphis Police Department officers were indicted on second-degree murder charges that, "no one out there that night intended for Tyre Nichols to die. No one. No one."