‘How dare you’: Al Sharpton calls Tyre Nichols attackers ‘punks’ at funeral

Al Sharpton described the five officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols as "punks" during the 29-year-old's funeral.

"How dare you," the veteran civil rights campaigner asked during an impassioned eulogy at the service on Wednesday, 1 February.

In the fiery speech, he said: "You don't fight gangs by becoming five armed men against an armed man. That ain't the police, that's punks."

Tyre Nichols died three days after he was brutally beaten during a traffic stop on 7 January, the bodycam footage of which sparked outrage.

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