tape that s going to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern time today, comparing to what happened with rodney king. we ll talk about that but listen to what he said. it reminds you of rodney king in many regards, assaulted, battered, punched, kicked, tased, pepper sprayed. it is very troubling when you think about tyre only weighs, at most, 150 pounds, calling for his mother. he yells out to her three times and then you never hear tyre nichols say another word on that video. you see him up against the car, sitting down in handcuffs and you see his body fall to the right. you can see now i m joined live now by the memphis police chief, cj davis thank you for joining us. i m going to wear my glasses because i have specific things i want to ask you about. these five officers have been charged with second degree murder in the death of tyre nichols. what s your reaction to these very serious charges? well, i expected serious charges. i really did. actually, the charges that we
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
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supposedly stopped. and that is why he was supposedly stopped in the very beginning. so that was a concern. of course in an investigation, we began to look at what was the probable cause for the stop, where were the cameras, was there some evidence on the body camera, on other cameras along those thoroughfares and we ve taken a pretty extensive look to determine, you know, what that probable cause was. and we have not been able to substantiate that. it doesn t mean that something didn t happen, but there is no proof. the cameras didn t pick up. the cameras didn t pick up. so before the incident you re looking at other surveillance cameras around the city. around the city. other thoroughfares. even business cameras. any video footage that we could potentially pick up to see what occurred prior to this stop. the information that we have right now of based on what we could observe, is the stop itself and the first officer
at all? no. we have not been able to substantiate the reckless driving. that was why he was supposedly stopped. that was why he was supposedly stopped in the very beginning. that was a concern. so in an investigation we begin to look at what was the probable cause for the stop, where were the cameras? was there some evidence on the body camera, along those cameras on those thoroughfares? and we ve taken an extensive look to determine what that probable cause was and he have not been able to substantiate that. it doesn t mean that something didn t happen but the cameras there s no proof. so before the incident you re looking at other surveillance cameras around the city. that s right. thoroughfares, and even business cameras. any footage we could pick up to see what occurred prior to the stop? the information that we have