How to watch the service being held in Memphis on Wednesday, with speakers including Rev. Al Sharpton

Tyre Nichols, whose violent arrest and subsequent death prompted widespread grief and outrage, will be laid to rest Wednesday in Memphis. Nichols died on Jan. 10, three days after he was beaten by police at a traffic stop. Five officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder.

His funeral will be attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, the White House announced Tuesday, along with several other administration officials. 

Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump will deliver the “call for justice,” according to the funeral program obtained by CBS News. Members of Nichols’ family will also speak.

“People from around the world watched the videotape of a man unarmed, unprovoked, being beat to death by officers of the law,” Sharpton said in a news conference Tuesday at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, where Wednesday’s service will take place. Crump was scheduled to attend Tuesday’s press conference, but his flight was canceled due to inclement weather. It was not immediately clear if the weather would prevent him from attending the funeral as well.

Nichols, who was 29 years old, worked for FedEx and had a 4-year-old son. He grew up in Sacramento but moved to Memphis right before the pandemic to join his mother and stepfather.

“My son loved me to death, and I love him to death,” his mother, RowVaughn Wells, told CBS News, sharing that her son had a tattoo of her name on his arm. A self-described “aspiring photographer,” his family said he loved photographing landscapes and sunsets. 

Friends from his youth in California shared memories of him with CBS Sacramento. Nichols was an avid skateboarder, and his friend Jerome Neal described him as “well-loved” at his local skate park.

“He just touches anybody who gets around him,” another friend, Austin Robert, told the station. “He’s a fantastic person and that’s how I really want everybody to remember him.”

“It’s honestly pretty devastating to see such a good human go through such unnecessary brutality, such unnecessary death,” Brian Jang, a friend of Nichols’ from Memphis, told CBS News.

Nichols was on his way home when he was pulled over the night of Jan. 7 — allegedly for reckless driving, although the police chief later said no evidence was found to support that….