nick also nichols for about three minutes. officers also hit him with a baton and pepper sprayed him as he appeared to show no resistance. nichols also cried out for his mom. his home just 60 yards away. president biden spoke with tyre nichols parents before the video s release expressing his and the first lady s condolences. he and the snuck also nichols family called percent protests to be peaceful and most of them were. rich: lucas tomlinson with more on the reaction there, but first, steve heir began is live in memphis, and we want to warn you again video is difficult to watch. with that in mind, here s steve. reporter: rich, we re expecting more protests later in the afternoon in front of police headquarters here in memphis. so far things have been peaceful since the release of that police body cam video footage last night, 7 p.m. eastern, put on the internet for all to see. basically, it shows what looks like a traffic stop at first of 29 years ago tyre nichols.
caught up in the drama after papers with classified markings were discovered at the indiana home of former president mike pence. let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel and editorial board member men au quai barua. so kim, first of all, was it the right thing for facebook to do to restore the former president and what impact will it have politically? yeah well on the substance, absolutely, paul, because what we know, at least from the twitter files is that there wasn t many valid reasons for actually getting rid of him in the first place. you have to assume that was the same for facebook. there s also even bigger questions, too, about the wisdom of removing someone that high profile from what is essentially become a public square. politically however, you ve got to wonder if this isn t in a way a gift to democrats. they very much want donald trump to be front and center. now we don t know if he s going to go back to use facebook,