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• The video of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being beaten by Memphis police was released Friday.
• Legal experts told Insider the footage showed police met Nichols with force even though he wasn't initially resisting.
• He may have run away from the officers because he thought he needed to in order to save his life, lawyers said.

Content note: This story describes police brutality, death, and contains graphic videos.

• Authorities released footage Friday evening showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols on January 7.
• The five officers involved in the beating have since been fired and charged with murder.
• Memphis and other major US cities braced for protests and widespread outrage on Friday.

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• 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

• People in Memphis are demanding justice in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after a traffic stop.
• Five officers involved in the incident were fired and charged with second-degree murder.
• Memphis plans to release footage of the incident on Friday, and the c