Corrected. i ve been involved in a number of cases and we still have improper shootings and beating. but i will say this. since the cameras have been there, we have not had the kind of beatings that we see in this particular case. this is really shocking that you would have os comparable to rodney king when they have cell phones and video cameras where everything could see. unless they thought that the policy of the department would protect them. obviously it is not going to. but you could not have that kind of level of activity and think you re going to get away with it when someone has a camera. you always have the question of the code of silence among officers and in this case you have to work through different roles an the same thing we had in the kreing case. they put up a dooes the victim of his own demise. and so now we are seeing what is
Supervisory positions and commanders positions. but the accountability is throughout the police department. all the way up to the chief. let s talk about the video. yes. um, it is been said that it is reminiscent perhaps worse than the rodney king video. is that your assessment? that is my assessment. i was in law enforcement during the rodney king incident and it s, you know, it is very much aligned with that same type of behavior. but it is worse? sort of group think. i would say it s about the same if not worse. if not worse. in this video, it is said that tyre nichols cries for his mother. did you hear that? i did. i heard him call out for his mother. for his mom. i did. and? that is why this incident not
We have not been able to look at the video camera, though we know the lawyers representing the family have said what s on those body cams is horrific. they say it s worse than what we saw in the 1992 beating of rodney king by los angeles police officers. so i think the u.s. attorney felt a need to say something to this community, because there s been so much attention. areva martin, does the race of the officers involved matter in a investigation like this? i don t think it s the race of the officers. it s the race of the victim. it s the fact that the victim is african american. we know all too often that african american men, unarmed, die from routine police stops. this appears to be a routine traffic stop where apparently he
Yet. cnn s nick valencia has more. reporter: attorneys for the family of tyre nichols did not hold back in the characterization of the video of his arrest seeing it for the first time monday alongside his family. benning monday krump said the video reminded him of the 1991 beating of rodney king. he said the video was so hard to watch that tyre nichols mother couldn t make it through the first minute. during what they called about three minutes that police officers were beating on nichols he asked them reportedly what did i do? our son ran because he was scared. he did not run because he was running from drugs, guns, any of that. he ran because he was scared for his life and when you see the video, you will see why he was scared for his life. reporter: the family and the attorneys said they were careful to offer too many details of what they saw in those videos
In his vehicle. they believe that he acted alone. do stay with cnn throughout the morning for all the latest on this developing story. attorneys for the family of a black man who died during a traffic stop and say the video of his arrest shows please beating him nonstop for three minutes. 29-year-old tyree nichols was hospitalized in a critical condition this month in memphis tennessee, where he died a few days later. his family has seen the arrest video, but it has not been made public yet. cnn s nick valencia has. attorneys for the family of tyre nichols in their characterization of the video of their, arresting it for the first time on monday alongside his family. one family attorney, benjamin crump, said the video reminded him of the 1991 beating of rodney king. he said the video was so hard to watch that tyre nichols