memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today s news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can t see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don t go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the
to your point, that may have been a mitigating factor. again, it s incredibly hard to watch. not good training, and we hold police officers to a much higher standard than that, and this is going to be adjudicated. as you said, this will go to trial. thanks so much, bill. stay with fox news to follow this breaking story. thank you so much for joining prime time. tucker: good evening and welcome into tucker carlson tonight. officials in memphis, tennessee, have just released body cam footage of a police encounter that followed a traffic stop. what you are about to see took place less than three weeks ago. the footage appears to show police attempting to stop a 29-year-old called tyre nichols for reckless driving. he seems to resist arrest. then after a struggle and what looks like a very significant beating, nichols died.
the officers gave chase but they can t catch him. then they come back to the car. several minutes go by before another police unit spots and catches nichols. this is the second scene, and the officer from the first scene also then arrived at the second scene. tyre nichols at that time was only about half a mile from his house, and at this point there is both body can video and memphis police video that is from a camera mounted on a light pole, that you can see the officers throwing tyre nichols to the ground. then there are two officers who grab nichols arms and put them behind his back, and they begin punching him. another officer at the same time is kicking him. he is clearly unable to defend himself at this time, and when he s finally placed back on the ground you can see officers still kind of walking up and kicking him. it s very hard to make out what tyre nichols is saying, but we know that he is asking for help, and he s also apparently asking for his mom.
coverage of this tape today. the only person w whose race mot media identified was the victim. moments ago on msnbc they just describe what you just saw as rights of privacy. really? how? seeing as van jones didn t acknowledge that the police who hit tyre nichols were black, but, they might still have been driven by racism. van jones didn t take the time to explain how. it was a lie, of course. they are all lying, and joe biden himself, the president of the united states, swiftly reinforced that lie, referring to an event in which every single participant, and their supervisors, was the same color. he lectured the united states that fatal encounters with law enforcement have disparately impacted black and brown people. so the one thing you know, most people don t think that s right, but the one thing we know for sure is that there is a highly aggressive propaganda campaign
memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today s news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can t see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don t go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the spray get