Tag: Tyre
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The Tyre Collective turns microplastic tyre-wear particles into objects
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British startup The Tyre Collective has begun to make products from the microplastic particles that come off car tyres as they drive on roads, producing results including jewellery, a lamp and a battery. The group – which was awarded the UK national James Dyson Award in 2020 for its car-mounted tyre-wear capturing device – worked…
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What Is SkyCop? The Controversial Camera That Caught Cops Beating Tyre Nichols
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Left: Tyre Nichols (AP Images) Right: SkyCop camera (Image courtesy of company) At first, the camera that captured Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating panned too far to the right. Then, it corrected back to the left. Finally, the camera, mounted on top of a pole above the scene, zoomed in on the Memphis police officers brutalizing…
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U2’s Bono, family of Tyre Nichols’ among Jill Biden’s guests
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Rock star Bono, the family of Tyre Nichols and the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park, California, shooting were among the featured guests sitting alongside first lady Jill Biden at Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The guests were invited “because they personify issues or themes” Biden addressed in the speech…
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Tyre Nichols’ life celebrated in Memphis funeral service
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CNN — Mourners, from Vice President Kamala Harris to the activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, on Wednesday celebrated the life of Tyre Nichols, whose death at the hands of police in Memphis led to second-degree murder charges against five officers. “Mothers around the world, when their babies are born, pray to God when they hold…
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Tyre Nichols funeral: Kamala Harris condemns ‘violent act not in pursuit of public safety’ – latest | Tyre Nichols
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Kamala Harris: ‘This violent act was not in pursuit of public safety’ “We are here to celebrate the life of Tyre Nichols … Mrs Wells, Mr Wells, you have been extraordinary in terms of your strength, your courage and your grace,” Harris said to Tyre Nichols’ parents in an address at the funeral. “We mourn…
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The Killing of Tyre Nichols and the Issue of Race
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American law enforcement can be expected, in any given year, to produce about a thousand fatal shootings in the course of executing its duty to protect and serve the public. This number is many multiples higher than those for the police departments of other Western democracies and, given the diversity of the U.S. population, occurs…
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‘I’m just trying to go home’: Tyre Nichols heard pleading in released video | Tyre Nichols
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A group of Tennessee police officers punched and kicked Tyre Nichols –delivering at least a half-dozen blows – as he languished on the ground, crying out for his mother, during a 7 January beating that would result in his death, surveillance footage released Friday night revealed. The deadly attack on Nichols reportedly unfolded about 80…
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Biden calls for calm ahead of video release in Tyre Nichols police death – latest updates | Tyre Nichols
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Biden calls for ‘meaningful reforms’ after Tyre Nichols death Joe Biden sent condolences to the family of Tyre Nichols in a statement released yesterday, while issuing a vague call for “meaningful reform” of policing, an issue on which he has had mixed success during the first two years of his presidency. “Jill and I extend…
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Independent Autopsy Reveals Tyre Nichols’ Cause Of Death After Traffic Stop
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An autopsy independently commissioned by the family of Tennessee man Tyre Nichols came to a preliminary determination about how the 29-year-old died after a traffic stop by Memphis Police earlier this month. The findings indicate that Nichols “suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” family attorney Benjamin Crump said in a Tuesday statement. “[H]is…