Community members gathered at a skate park in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, January 26, to hold a vigil for Tyre Nichols, who died after an altercation with Memphis Police.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported that 29-year-old Nichols died in the hospital on January 10 after a physical altercation with police on January 7. The five officers who “caused Nichols’ injuries” were charged with second-degree murder on Thursday.

Video posted by Instagram user hawtboi3000 on Thursday shows the emotional scene at the vigil as people hold signs and candles at the Memphis skate park.

The Nichols’s family attorney, Ben Crump, said that Nichols was a “talented and dedicated skateboarder.”

Bodycam footage of the January 7 fatal arrest attempt was to be released to the public on Friday evening, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.

Crump, who watched the footage with the family, told local news outlets that the video was “appalling, heinous, violent, and troublesome” and was reminiscent of the footage of the beating of Rodney King. Credit: hawtboi3000 via Storyful

Video Transcript

- --with our every breath.

[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]

And as we go home, as we leave from this place at whatever time we depart as we go home, we will never go home again and take for granted what it means to make it home, so we thank you.

- Yes.

- Yes, Lord.

- Amen.

- We thank you for the home that you have made for Tyre right now, God. We thank you that he is at a type of rest that he never has to face again the evils in this world. He never has to worry about making it home again, God. He has an everlasting home.

He should not be at this type of rest, but we give thanks that the rest is available. So until we make it home, until we make it to an eternal, or an everlasting home, until that time, we ask You, God, to empower us to make Memphis the home that we deserve.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

To make Memphis the home that we deserve.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

We deserve this community that has gathered here.

[RAILROAD CROSSING RINGING IN DISTANCE]

We deserve the love that is available. We deserve the way that we show up for each other. We deserve the way our neighbors greet us, and love us, and hold us.

- Yes.

- We deserve our families, God.

- Yes.

- But we also deserve-- we deserve a city that honors our life.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

We deserve a city that values our breath.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

We deserve a city that acknowledges that this city was maintained and built after it was stolen from Indigenous folks. That it was built and maintained by our bodies.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

[RAILROAD CROSSING RINGING IN DISTANCE]

And we are here, and we ain't going nowhere--

[TRAIN HORN SOUNDING LOUDLY]

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

The is our fight. This is our home.

[TRAIN HORN SOUNDING LOUDLY]

So we, again, thank you, God [MUFFLED]. Thank you for [MUFFLED] for Tyre. Thank you for [MUFFLED]. We thank you for the same heart at work. Thank you for coworkers--

[TRAIN HORN SOUNDING LOUDLY]

Thank you, God, for what [MUFFLED]. For what is on the way. And what is on the way? we going to follow that justice dream all the way home.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

We shall be home in justice. We shall be home in love. We shall be home in community, and we declare and decree with the great power that is within us, the great power that is even outside of us that no one is going to steal home from us again, God. We are home.

May we all [MUFFLED] our home wherever [MUFFLED]. And may we-- We love you. And because of that love we will find ways to love each other. We will seek ways that love is available.

But love is not happy. Love is not just tranquil. Love is a powerful force. So in the great power of love, we declare that we are home. Are we home now?

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

Let God know that we are home.

[CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

We love You. We love each other. We love Mama Rose. We love Rodney. We are grateful for the family of Tyre, and how they may home, how they were home for him. Thank you, God, for being home for them. Amen.

Amen.