From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today.

What really happened to Tyree Nichols, who died after he was violently beaten by police in Memphis,

and in counter, captured in a series of videos released over the weekend.

My colleague, Southern Bureau Chief Rick Rohos, is in Memphis, where he's been piecing together the story.

It's Monday, January 30th.

Rick, tell us about Tyree Nichols, the man at the center of this story.

So Tyree Nichols was a 29-year-old man who lived in Memphis. He was black.

And his mother described him as living a kind of simple, pleasant life.

Every day, like clockwork, he would wake up at 8.30 and he would go to the same Starbucks and get the same drink.

You know, he had been working for about nine months at a FedEx facility in the city. And he seemed to be doing well on all accounts.

He loved to skateboard and he was a regular at Shelby Farms, which is this really sprawling park just outside Memphis.

He'd go almost every day, either for skating or to photograph the sunset. He was an amateur photographer.

And he had a four-year-old son. And he just seemed like someone who was like a typical 29-year-old who was finding his way and building a life for himself.

And so I think for his family, that's what has made this all the more staggering.

They didn't see him as someone who would have any kind of encounter with the police.

Right. Well, I want to talk about that encounter. We, of course, now have a video of it. But for several weeks, we didn't.

And there was a fair bit of mystery around what exactly had happened.

So I'm wondering, Rick, if you could take us back to what first happened to Tywinicles and walk us through how this all unfolded as we experienced it in real time.

Yeah, this case has been shrouded in a lot of mystery before the video came out.

At the beginning, what we know came from a police statement.

So on January 7, Tywinicles gets pulled over by the police in the southeastern corner of the city.

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