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2 Memphis Fire Dept. Employees ‘Relieved of Duty’ After Tyre Nichols Waited 22 Minutes for Ambulance

Author

James Bradley

Published Jan 23, 2026

Two Memphis Local group of fire-fighters (MFD) staff have been for a brief time “eased of obligation” in association with the demise of Tire Nichols, the division reported recently.

After film of the traffic stop that eventually guaranteed the 29-year-old Person of color’s life showed that Nichols hung tight 22 minutes for a rescue vehicle, MFD representative Qwanesha Ward said the two workers being scrutinized were “engaged with the underlying patient consideration,” as per NBC News.

Ward didn’t give further subtleties at that point, and she didn’t promptly answer Individuals’ solicitation for input. Memphis city authorities delivered over an hour of film on Friday from the deadly experience, which was shared by CNN, showing five officials seeming to go after Nichols not long after pulling him over at gunpoint for supposed wild driving on Jan. 7.

Nichols was exposed to roughly 50 minutes of beating before police should have been visible hauling and setting him facing a police cruiser at 8:38 before Nichols slouched over his ally.

Two doctors were shown showing up at the scene with gear at 8:41 p.m. It’s indistinct assuming those are the two workers being scrutinized.

“It will be some time for an emergency vehicle,” one individual can heard say. No one renders help until an emergency vehicle shows up at 9:02 p.m. to move Nichols to an emergency clinic in basic condition, where he died from his wounds three days after the fact.

2 Memphis Fire Dept. Employees ‘Relieved of Duty’ After Tyre Nichols Waited 22 Minutes for Ambulance

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Five MPD officials engaged with the assault — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Factories Jr. also, Justin Smith — have since been terminated and are having to deal with different penalties. They are each accused of second-degree murder, exasperated attack, two counts of bothered capturing, and different counts of true wrongdoing and official persecution, as per online Shelby Province Prison records inspected by Individuals.

Nichols’ stepfather Rodney Wells has since communicated the family’s longing to see a fair outcome given on each level.

“I feel that everybody there ought to be charged,” he told ABC News on Friday. “Everybody — that is the paramedics, that is the local group of fire-fighters, the paramedics that came out that waited around, sat idle. They’re comparably blameworthy,” Wells added. “Everybody that was dynamic in the entire scene, the entire video, ought to be charged.”

The arrival of Friday’s recording prodded a rush of dissent walks and revitalizes in significant urban communities the nation over.

President Joe Biden talked with the Nichols family on Friday evening, called for quiet dissent, and expressed that he was “insulted and profoundly tormented,” by the misfortune.