Beefing up security in severa major cities. officials expect the public to have a range of emotions just as they did in 1991 when the rodney king video surfaced. you know, the similar at this for me was rodney king, and i was an officer back during that time, too. that came to mind for me, on this video. to me, there was a level of group-think, you know, that there was no one that, you know, isolated themselves or stepped out to say, stop, we got him or whatever the case is. that s enough. reporter: and one portion of the video, you can hear the officers try to explain why they pulled nichols over. one of the officers is heard on camera saying that he swerved into oncoming traffic, but, right now, investigators are looking into this incident tell us that they have seen no
They have been fired and were charged with second degree murder among other charges. earlier today, nichols family attorney, benjamin crump told msnbc that the swift action should become the new standard. the way we saw these five black officers swiftly fired, terminated, and charged, is the blueprint going forward now. when we have these police shootings or unjustified killings of black people. whether the officers are black or white. there have been far too many of these videos, just as heinous. well, the nichols family is comparing his killing to the police beating of rodney king back in 1991. king s daughter watched that video with community activists in los angeles last night and said that the police beating of nichols as part of a pattern that needs to change. i don t encourage hunting people, i don t encourage burning down things, i don t
0 here at 7:00. see you soon. garrett: tonight the public sees extensive video of five memphis police officers in the brutal beating of tyre nichols who died days later. breaking news, video just released, the police chief says it shows a disregard for life, as you hear the 29-year-old victim s agonizing calls for his mother. cbs s elise preston s interview with the nichols family as they call for change. i will never see my son again, i ll never see that smile again. garrett: memphis and the country reacts. nation wade braces for protests nichols family pleas for peace. also the attack on paul pelosi, how the suspect entered the house and the moment the police showed up. drop the hammer. garrett: reaction tonight from the former speaker of the house. gripping testimony in the murder trial of alex murdaugh, new at details about the night his wife and son were killed. the deadly shooting outside an israeli synagogue on this holocaust remembrance day. massive pileup as the threat
The rodney king video. is that your assessment? that was my assessment. i was in law enforcement during the rodney king incident and it s very much aligned with that same type of behavior? but it s worse? sort of group-think i would say it s about the same if not worse. if not worse. take us through the video tonight. when it is released. it has been said there s over an hour, there s the pole cam, there s sky cam and body-worn camera video. how is it going to be distributed? are you going to put it on social media, are you giving it to the media? how is it going to be distributed. we plan to put it on a youtube link so it s accessible to anybody who wants to access that video. we ll push that out later on this evening. the video is broken into four
Are. it has been said that it is reminiscent, perhaps worse, than the rodney king video. is that your assessment? that s my assessment. i was in law enforcement during the rodney king incident and it s, you know, very much aligned with that same type of behavior. it s worse? sort of group think. i would say it s about the same, if not worse. if not worse. if not worse. about the same, if not worse. what so many of us will see later today when that video is released. it s all of that, chief davis said, that led her to act immediately in response to and these are her words here this disregard for life, and as you just heard there, too, a response well beyond what was required in those moments. i was i was outraged, i was it was incomprehensible to me, it was unconscionable and