Three of five former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers have been acquitted on all state charges in the 2023 fatal beating ...

Former Memphis Police Department officer Justin Smith Jr., right, becomes emotional as he hugs Michael Stengel, left, the defense attorney for fellow former officer Demetrius Haley, after Smith ...

A jury found former Memphis police officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith not guilty of all charges in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023. Three former ...

Three former Tennessee police officers on trial in the January 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols were acquitted Wednesday of all state charges, including second-degree murder. Jurors took a ...

Former Memphis Police Department officer Justin Smith Jr., right, becomes emotional as he hugs Michael Stengel, left, the defense attorney for fellow former officer Demetrius Haley, after Smith ...

Justin Smith, Demetrius Haley and Tadarrius Bean had been charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in ...

Three former Memphis were acquitted Wednesday of state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre ...

Demetrius Haley, left, Tadarrius Bean, and Justin Smith, Jr., rear, three former Memphis Police Department officers charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols in 2023, sit in the courtroom during ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Three former Memphis Police officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith — were acquitted on all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols. After those verdicts were ...

Police Department shows, from top row from left, Police Officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, bottom row from left, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith. (Memphis Police ...

Former police officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith — who were previously found guilty of witness tampering but acquitted of civil rights charges following a federal trial ...

Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith — were part of a crime suppression team called the Scorpion Unit that was disbanded after Nichols’ death. The team targeted illegal drugs and guns and ...