Jerry Nichols

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Local police located NIchols outside a hospital ER by a picnic bench. Staff had kicked him out as combative, assaultive and "out of control" while he sought care for shortness of breath. A responding officer identified Nichols, engaged him, Tased him unsuccessfully, and struck him with the back of his hand. Nichols fell to the ground and went into cardiac arrest. He died in the same hospital about a week later.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jerry Nichols, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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