save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. talk to our switch squad at your local xfinity store today. top of the hour in the cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. this morning, just incredible new details from the memphis police chief describing what the nation will see today when her department releases videos of the violent january 7th arrest of 29-year-old tyre nichols. he died just days later from injuries he sustained during the police stop. some of the emmages including from police body cameras described, including by the police chief as appalling, horrific and inhumane. five memphis police officers have been fired and charged with a number of felonies, including second-degree murder. and in an exclusive interview this morning, with cnn s don lemon, the police chief walked through what led up to that traffic stop, the beating of tyre nichols and about the ongoing investigations into the officers responsible. the charges, these five off
we have seen in deadly police encounters is the traffic stop. you go back to daunte write, stopped for having an air freshner on his rearview mirror. here the police chief openly questioning the idea that he had been recklessly driving prior. is that a broader problem? the police traffic stop itself? yes, well first thanks for having me. the d.c. police reform commission here in the nation s capital where i live, last year recommended that we take place out of traffic stops in this city, for that very reason. we have other ways to be able to enforce traffic violations without having people with guns and with the ability or the training of using violence and deadly force to subdue people who are simply out trying to get from one place to another. so those are some serious proposals that we need to weigh