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Nichols is described in the letters as a nonviolent, unarmed subject who posed no significant threat to the officers. CNN reached out to the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission to request the documents, as well as the Memphis Police Department for comment. Their accounts were "not consistent with each other and are not consistent with the publicly known injuries and death of Mr. Nichols," the documents say. Haley also said in a statement and in body camera footage that he heard an officer tell Nichols, "Let my gun go!" Both Haley and Martin were internally charged with violating the department policy against providing "knowingly incorrect, false, or deceitful" information, the documents show.
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