Treated by law enforcement, right? and so if you beat somebody behind closed doors, that just means you have a really fundamentally flawed character because character is who you are when no one is looking. if you beat somebody out in the under just, you know, light with cameras and video around, other people, that shows that you didn t believe that person to be human. you figured no one would care because that person was less than human. so that under that analysis it shows that this is actually worse than rodney king because in rodney king they thought they were doing something under the cover of darkness, which they had done many times before. in this case they wanted to beat him and beat him and pummel him because they figured no one would care, and that s my fundamental problem with this entire system. you can talk about the jump out boys, you can talk about the red dogs, you can talk about the scorpion unit, that is what they re called in different municipalities which usually
The race of the officers and this is not what that s about. it s about the conduct of the officers and the police chief said as much to don this morning, that you can take that out of it. this is about the way they acted. something else that stands out, bakari, is with hearing from the police chief that in her view this is as bad as, if not worse than that video of rodney king from 1992, our colleague josh campbell pointing out what s interesting is in 1992 those officers didn t know that they were being filmed. officers today, bakari, no he that they are being filmed, they know that they re wearing body cameras, this he know there are cameras all around the city. so when you factor that in, in terms of conduct, in terms of where we re at, how does that sit with you? s that s a good question. that s actually a really good question. i think that it goes to the gratuitous nature whereby individuals who look like me are
Now charged with murder. and other serious crimes. in an exclusive interview with cnn, the memphis police chief said the video is perhaps worse than the police beating of rodney king decades ago. nichol s mother described the injuries that her son suffered at the hands of police. they had beat him to a pulp. he had bruises all over him. his head was swollen like a watermelon. it is horrific. and the humanity of it all. where was the humanity? they beat my son like a pinata. tyre nichols s mother there was talking to my colleague don lemon about all of this. we ll have more on that conversation that don had with her in a moment. we also want you to listen though here right now to more of the exclusive interview with the
Of it. and plus, and in rodney king, you had a long history of these particular officers engaging in severe misconduct. i could remember officer powell talked about gorilla in the mist, there was racially motivated and it is not true here in memphis but it can be. because they are plblack office, it stereotypes the black community, it could be. but at same time, we know in the roddy knee king what we had was these officers were found not guilty. and that was shocking. and i will say that ultimately we have to have a federal criminal trial and then ultimately we have the federal trial which i was in. and even in that case, there was justification on the part of the judge himself that indicated
Also heard from the police chief today. a comparison between the beating of tyre nichols and the infamous beating of rodney king. still this hour, rodney king s attorney is going to join us to talk about the comparisons and where we are today. also ahead, more breaking news coming from the justice department that we re going to jump into for you. the attorney general announcing new arrests in a foiled plat to assassinate a new york based journalist and he said it was directed by iran. details next. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it s natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebioc oat. it s clinically oven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. aveeno®