good afternoon. i am back. a little bit later on, i m gonna tell you why you have not seen me for a couple of weeks. we want to start this hour with calls for action. protests in memphis in around the country today. this comes after the release of the shocking video of the police beating that led to death of tyre nichols. we re gonna show you some videos with a warning. it is really disturbing. we are showing it not to sensationalize it, but because watching it is the only way to really understand the extreme nature of what happened. from the moment we see tyre nichols, the assault began. they use pepper spray and a taser on him. even before he ran. police caught up with him and beat him. watch this. give me your hands. watch out. give me your hands. hit him. watch out. give me your hands. [screaming] give us your hands! [screaming] in the end, nichols was left with just one simple plea as a grown man. that plea was for his mother. watch out, watch out. mom! m
a protester set to start hearing from the county administrate a building in just a couple of hours. that s around 3 pm local time. 4 pm eastern. it is heavy here in the city of memphis. four days leading up to the release of this video, i heard a lot of people talk about fear and violence. they are trying to admonish some of the people here. one of them against burning the city of memphis down. none of that rcep and here. people have been so focused on the support for tyre nichols and his family. as they protested last night, they were often incredibly quiet. some people decided to watch the video. others could not stomach it. they were really just there to grievance import each other. they come to terms with not just what this implies about these five officers, but potentially about this department. i want to bring in reverend jason turner. he has been providing counsel to the family.