Tyre Nichols’ mother: “We don’t care what color the officer is. We want bad officers taken off the force”

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said paramedics who were at the scene at some point during the Tyre Nichols traffic stop “failed to render proper care.”

“Based on the video, they failed to render proper care, and it’s just based on my assessment,” she told CNN Friday in her first interview since the incident.

The care came “several minutes” after, she said, adding that it was “concerning for all of us, that we see a number of failures where individuals did not exercise the amount of care that we are responsible for — no matter what the cause is we are responsible for exercising care.”  

Davis noted that the fire chief also quickly began an investigation into their actions on scene.

Nichols suffered “extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating,” according to preliminary results of an autopsy commissioned by attorneys for his family.

“We can state that preliminary findings indicate Tyre suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating, and that his observed injuries are consistent with what the family and attorneys witnessed on the video of his fatal encounter with police on January 7, 2023,” attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement.

CNN has asked Crump for a copy of the autopsy commissioned by the family, but he said the full report is not yet ready. Officials have also not released Nichols’ autopsy.

CNN’s Alisha Ebrahimji contributed to this post.