A police training expert testifying Saturday as a defense witness in the trial of three former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols acknowledged that kicks and punches to Nichols’ head were unnecessary and excessive.

Defense attorneys for three former Memphis Police Department officers continued to question expert witnesses on the fifth day of trial.

While much of the testimony included things already heard during the federal criminial trial, with many of the same witnesses, there were some differenecs.