Second ex-US police officer pleads guilty in death of Tyre Nichols

Emmitt Martin is one of five fired officers charged over the fatal beating in 2023 that renewed calls for police reform.

A second former Memphis police officer has pleaded guilty to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, whose videotaped beating by five Black officers in January 2023 shocked the United States.

Emmitt Martin pleaded guilty to two of four federal counts against him – one for depriving Nichols’s civil rights and another for witness tampering –…