turner. it took over three years for five police officers to be indicted in the 2019 brutal beating of unarmed ronald greene in baton rouge, which, again, was captured on body cam video. that s it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence o donnell. i appreciate, it alex. we look on nights like this for any sense of a silver lining, any sense of progress. then there is something. but when you watch videos like this and you think, how much progress we have not made, it is disheartening. thank you for your reporting. we will see you next week. happy to share. heinous, reckless and inhumane. that is how the police chief in memphis described the video footage that was released tonight, showing the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and five police officers, who have been fired and charged with his murder. the 29 year old died from the injuries sustained into confrontations with police captured in roughly one hour of
of tyre nichols, demanding justice for him, demanding accountability in this case, calling for that scorpion unit to be disbanded. people have not let up, getting on the microphone, one after, another making their voices heard over this and one of the things that is so remarkable about this is that the group got together about 30 minutes before the footage was even released, and we did not see people pulling out their cell phones to watch this footage. many of them may not have even seen it yet. but what we heard from demonstrators earlier today and activists is that they don t need to see the video to know what happened. they saw the pictures of tyre nichols. they felt the grief of his family. and that is why so many of them are out here. and i will tell you, one other thing i was particularly struck by is that there were people who were walking up hours after this protest had begun i spoke to one woman, came, and she says she watched the video. she had never come out to a
and now, things are about to go horribly wrong. break your okay! bleep put your hands behind your back! bleep bleep! you guys are really doing a lot right now i m just trying to go home! man, if you don t lay down i okay! i didn t do any bleep bleep after telling police he is on the ground, tyre nichols runs away. and police chase after him.
charges including second degree murder, kidnapping, and official misconduct. the charges came just 16 days after tyre nichols s death. a kind of rapid action happen mostly, probably, because of the newly elected shelby district a county who ran on a platform different address racial profiling and de-escalation training tactics. and the memphis chief of police has also spoken out about reforms, including on a national scale. the kind of timeline we have seen in the tyre nichols case is not the norm when it comes to police violence against black americans, especially when it comes to these killings that have been caught on video. in the 2014 you re killing of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald in chicago captured on dash cam video, it took nearly 14 months for the police officer who killed him to be charged. in 2019 it again took four months for a texas police officer to be charged in the killing of 44-year-old pamela
now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence o donnell. i appreciate, it alex. we look on nights like this for any sense of a silver lining, any sense of progress. if accountability comes to people faster, then there is something. but when you watch videos like this and you think, how much progress we have not made, it is disheartening. thank you for your reporting. we will see you next week. happy to share. heinous, reckless and inhumane. that is how the police chief in memphis described the video footage that was released tonight, showing the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and five police officers, who have been fired and charged with his murder. the 29 year old died from the injuries sustained into confrontations with police captured in roughly one hour of footage from police body cam footage and neighborhood security camera footage. the incident happened on january the 7th, 8:30 pm at night. the footage does not capture the and initial p