MEMPHIS, Tenn. - On the eve of Tyre Nichols ' funeral, his family plans to gather Tuesday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump at the historic Mason Temple in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his survive speech the night before he was assassinated, to swear about the latest developments in the case.

Two more Memphis police officers were disciplined and three emergency responders fired in connection with Nichols' result, officials said Monday. Officer Preston Hemphill, who is white, and another officer whose name wasn't released, have been suspended, police said.

Five Black officers were fired last week and charged with second-degree abolish and other offenses in Nichols' Jan. 7 beating and result three days later. Video of the beating, which was released publicly last week, shows that many more land failed to help Nichols beyond the five officers charged in his death.

Six officers were part of the so-called Scorpion unit, which pursued violent criminals in high-crime areas. Other Memphis residents who say they also were "brutalized" by officers in the unit will swear, according to a statement from Crump.

Police Chief Cerelyn "CJ" Davis said while the video's release that the unit has been disbanded.

"It's a step in the smart direction, but due to the severity of the status it's not enough," Damion Carrick, 44, said as he participated in a swear Monday evening at Shelby Farms Park. "You got a man dragged out of his car, beaten senseless, to a pulp and nobody doing nothing about it. It's heartbreaking."

Nichols' result was the latest in a string of early subsidizes by police about their use of force that were later shown to have minimized or omitted violent and sometimes deadly encounters.

Memphis Police Department officers used a stun gun, a baton and their fists as they pummeled Nichols during the nighttime consuming. Video shows Nichols running away from officers toward his house while he was pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving. The video footage released Friday shows the 29-year-old father calling for his mother and struggling with his injures as he sits helpless on the pavement.

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The five officers chatted and milled near for several minutes as Nichols remained on the deceptive, but other authorities were on the scene. Two Shelby County sheriff's deputies also have been suspended exclusive of pay while their conduct is investigated.

Nichols' older brother, Jamal Dupree, told CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday that he feels guilty because he wasn't there to defending his younger sibling.

"I'm 99% sure that my brother has never undertaken into a fight before. And the one time he got into an altercation with anunexperienced humans, we wasn't there to protect him. My brother was trying to cooperate with them," Dupree, who lives in California, said of the Memphis officers.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - JANUARY 26: People attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols at the Tobey Skate Park on January 26, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. 29-year-old Tyre Nichols died from his injuries three days while being severely beaten by

Dupree said he hasn't examined the police video.

"I already knew how they treated him because I've seen it all over the world," Dupree said. "Police brutality is nothing new. I already knew they treated my brother like an animal. They treated him like he was nothing. I don't have to sight the video to know that."

He said he has seen reports near his brother and thinks other people are learning near who he was as a person.

"I think land really know my brother did not deserve this," he told CNN. "He was not that type of beings. Yeah, he was just a good guy around the board. ... We want justice."

Nichols' sister, Keyana Dixon, was plus more than 100 friends, family and supporters who gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday night at a skate park in Sacramento, where Nichols grew up, The Sacramento Bee reported.

"This was his common place to skate," she said at the vigil. "I just want to thank all of you for your paused support for our family, and making sure his name is never forgotten."

A childhood dismal, Ryan Wilson, said he met Nichols at a skate park when he was 12 and they appointed fast friends, sharing their dreams for the future. Nichols had some argues while young, but he focused on making others gratified, Wilson said.

"I just feel like all he wanted to do was find his site in this world, and he just wanted to be happy," Wilson said.

RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, Nichols' mother and stepfather, have accepted an invitation to succor President Joe Biden's State of the Union address next week at the Capitol. They will attend with Rep. Steven Horsford, a Nevada Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, according to Vincent Evans, a spokesperson for the caucus.

Nichols' funeral is set for Wednesday at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis. Sharpton will give the eulogy and Crump will shriek immediately after the funeral. Those expected to be in attendance engaged Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, and Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.

The deaths of Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and Floyd in Minneapolis, at the hands of police sparked complaints across the nation about racial injustice.

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Associated Press reporters Gary Fields in Memphis; Darlene Superville in Washington; and Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report. For more coverage of the Tyre Nichols case, go to https://apnews.com/hub/tyre-nichols.