The Tennessee Sheriff deputies two deputies and orders a new investigation into Tire Nichols’ death

A Tennessee sheriff has suspended two deputies and ordered a new investigation into Tire Nichols’ death after personally watching the sickening video.

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said he had “concern” about the two deputies who arrived after Nichols was beaten, putting them on leave while he launched an internal investigation into the officers’ conduct.

Street camera video of the altercation, which began at a traffic stop, shows two officers, who have not been identified, arriving at the scene after five knocked and pinned Nichols, 29, to the ground.

The group of officers were seen surrounding the injured man, first bumping into each other as he lay shaking on the ground before an eighth officer appeared and paramedics arrived.

In his full statement, Bonner said: “Having watched the videotape for the first time tonight, I’m concerned about two deputies who arrived on the scene after the physical confrontation between the police and Tire Nichols.

“I have launched an internal investigation into the behavior of these deputies to determine what happened and whether any policy violations have occurred,” he added. “Both deputies are relieved pending the outcome of this administrative inquiry.”

The brutal beating captured on police body camera and a street surveillance camera shows the group of officers brutally kicking and punching Nichols as he lies on the ground.

After handcuffing him and pinning him to the ground, three other officers arrive and the group can be seen dragging Nichol and standing him up to sit.

However, the injured man is unable to hold himself up and writes and shakes, but the officers fail to attend to him, and two punches are seen at the hood of the patrol car.

Another couple also congratulate each other with a fist bump and continue to ignore the flailing Nichols.

Nichols’ family attorney, Antonio Romanucci, told MSNBC the two suspended deputies face criminal charges, as do the five who were caught on camera beating the 29-year-old.

“I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were more criminal charges against police officers,” Romanucci said. ‘Am I surprised it’s taking so long?

I’ve been at it long enough, I’ve had to wait six months, a year to two years or not at all for an indictment to come, so the fact that at least the admin part is coming.

“I think we know what’s coming. They will also be looked at criminally,” he added. “These officers who have not provided assistance and who have not intervened – they must be dealt with administratively and also criminally.”

Bonner has condemned the attack that killed Nichols after he was tased, kicked and punched in the head, struck three times with a metal baton and sprayed twice in the face with pepper spray.

“I am a second-generation law enforcement officer and I am concerned about what we have all seen on video,” Bonner said in a statement. This terrible incident tarnished the badge I wear, and many other good officers who wear every day.

“I will do everything I can to prevent another parent from having to bury their child in such a senseless and tragic manner.

My sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Tire Nichols. I am sad and angry about his tragic death,” he added.

As the investigation into Nichol’s death continues, his stepfather Rodney Wells and his attorney, famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump, said the video shows other first responders should be reprimanded.

Wells called for criminal charges against the paramedics standing by after his stepson was savagely beaten, while Crump who was questioned by a white officer who was present at the start of Nichols’ traffic stop has not yet been charged.

“Everyone — the fire department, paramedics who came out and did nothing — they’re just as guilty,” Wells told ABC News after the video’s release.

“Anyone who was active in the whole scene, the whole video, should be charged,” he added.

The five officers who were fired and charged with Nichols’ death are Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr and Justin Smith.

They are charged with manslaughter, assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.

Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis has said other officers are being investigated for their part in the arrest.

Davis described the actions of the five officers as “heinous, reckless and inhumane.”

The video released Friday night shows Nichols screaming for his mother multiple times during the brutal Jan. 7 attack, which happened just a few blocks from his home.

‘Mom! Mom,” Nichols yells as he is pinned to the ground by several officers who proceed to beat him.

The video shows that during the nearly four-minute altercation, police delivered at least nine blows to the FedEx employee as he shouted profanities.

In the videos, officers make claims about Nichols that are not supported by the footage, or what the prosecutor or other officials have said about the case.

In one of the videos, an officer claims Nichols struggled for his gun during the first traffic stop before fleeing. The video shows no such incident.

After Nichols was handcuffed and leaned against a police car, several officers claimed he must have been high, but officers found no drugs at the scene.

The images have been widely condemned by police forces and unions across the country.

The National President of the Fraternal Order of Police has issued a scathing statement in response to the video of police beating Nichols.

Patrick Yoes said the officers’ physical confrontation with Nichols “does not constitute legitimate police work or a misguided traffic control.”

Instead, Yoes called it a “criminal attack under the pretext of the law.”