vice president kamala harris plans to attend along with keisha lance boughts and mitch landrieu. tomorrow night we ll speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment and what justice in this case looks like. but tonight sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney, benjamin crump, are gathered at the historic mason temple to discuss how authorities continue to investigate nichols death. the memphis fire department fired two medics and a lieutenant who all failed to give nichols medical attention in the immediate aftermath as theia officers who had just bean him laughed on the side lines. in addition to that the memphis police department confirmed yesterday that two other memphis officers on the scene that night have been suspended since january 8th. one of those two officers is a man named prestten hemphill. nichols family attorney and civil rights lawyer ben crump says hemphill is the one who pulled nichols
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investments of public safety. and to think about what do we actually need police for? and if you really are logical about the question, if you think about what supposedly happened this night with tyre nichols, a alleged traffic stop, we do not need a gang, and that s what they were, a gang of officers, ripping him out of his car, tasing him, beating him, chasing him down, over an alleged traffic violation. it is not lost on me that this happened in memphis, which is the sight of a case that legal defense fund one in 1985 about fleeing felons, which establish that you cannot use deadly force against a fleeing felon if that felon is posing no danger. in this case, we had a fully innocent man, as far as we know. there is nothing to suggest that tyre nichols was engaged in anything other than an