California skate park named for Tennessee motorist fatally beaten in Memphis traffic stop
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the st...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop. An avid skateboarder, Nichols spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento. City officials and others held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated skate park now named for Nichols. Nichols moved to Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and lived there with his mother and stepfather.