the footage horrifying and disgusting. inssing.l of memphis officers involved have been arrested and charged with second degree murder. and other felonies. the incident happening earlier this month on january 7th, when twenty nine year old terry the initwas pulled over fo29-yer suspicion of reckless driving. an initial confrontation occurred between the officers and nichols. he then fled the scene sc and later the confrontationenede happened and the officers arrested nichols. he went to the hospital with serious injuries and died three days later. on january 10th, the followingfn week, memphis police launched an investigation, as didigation the doas didj. january 20th, those five officers were fired and were arrested yesterday. pe cities are preparing for unrest, but tyree nichols mom p is pleading the supporters the supporters to protest t peacefully. and but i want each and every one of you to protest in peace . i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing upties the
investigation that they have heard from many, many witnesses on. and now the prosecutors will take that testimony and see how it fits, try and faded into potential charges as they look towards the future. it will become, at least part of the record of what will now be known as january 6th of the justice department and potentially to the public later. on katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. and joining me now from los angeles s civil rights attorney areva martin and cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. thanks so much for joining us, but with the view. areva martin, i want to start with you. how crucial level witnesses pence? and you think they will have learned anything new here? i think, absolutely, kim, even though mike pence has been on a book tour, even though he has written about what happened leading up to january 6th in his, book that s very different than testifying under oath before a grand jury. the grand jury in that grand jury proceeding they get to learn details
place and think about it, we re all ready for somethingr some thinhorrific that we re kind of setting ourselves up to see things burn. s, it s th templae s does work, this is the new template. but i just i was textingt i th with ben jealous, who the former the head of the naacp. and i said, what d the naao yoc. k? d that i and he said, if the ife lead the leaders, the civil rightseas leaders and the clergy are out e ahead of time over the laste an 48 hours talking to all the people and activists, there won t be a problem. and hactivists, be e said, rr george zimmerman? they did not have an out of control riot in sanford becauseo all the clergy, not the cops, cm because you re out there sayingy i m not a good time to burnmake down the city. make your point this way.t thisw ay.so my hope is to use this tim for the al sharpton and the to gr civil rights leaders to get in place and tell them, don t burn down the city, it s going to hurt and heard the message. do you thin burnk the fact