john berman will be joining you along with don lemon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is hard to say good evening tonight, having seen the video footage authorities in memphis made public just a short time ago. i m john berman here in new york. and in memphis, i m don lemon. we appreciate you joining us for our special coverage. today, tyre nichols mom asked me a very simple question about her son s deadly encounter with police three weeks ago this weekend as a matter of fact. that question was, where was the humanity? three days later, her son would be dead from the beating he d received. ten days after that, five cops, members of a specialized now deactivated so-called spcorpion unit, were fired. yesterday all five were charged with murder. and now we have video of what they did, john. and this video comes from a variety of sources, body cams, a pole-mounted surveillance camera. we re not going to show any of it lightly. in truth, though, there is no amount of
tyre nichols, now, as we have been doing all evening, we have a warning, what you will see is a young man being beaten to death, it s graphic, the language is no less ugly as well. (screams) mom! what the use your hands. use your hands. give me your hands. give me your hands. again, what is most notable mentioning other things, done, amongst the brutality if you re trying to figure out who s calm, it appears to be tyre nichols there. it is the officers who have there emotions you know, at 11 or more there and seem to be escalating the situation almost every step of the way. it wasn t, sir, can you show me your license and registration. they went from 0 to 100 in less than five seconds or just immediately and john be what we saw there, that was the first video, that was the beginning as we know it gets much, much worse after that. i m sorry i m sorry, that was a little bit later but it did get worse after that because we so he tyre nichols they propped him up
oh! m mom! give me your hands. give me (bleep). okay. all right. (bleep) give me your hands. give me your hands. watch out. give me your hands. spray. neil: you hear a lot of shouting and screaming and tyre nichols several times calling out for his mom. at least half a dozen times by my count, could have been more than that, she lived 100 yards away, 200 yards away, literally within shouting distance. let s get more from dharls watson. hey, good morning, neil. you know, tyre nichols seemed surprised at the level of aggression that the memphis police officers used to warn him on the videos you see the officers relently beat nichols for minutes during a january 7th traffic stop that turned violent almost immediately. body cam video shows an officer aggressively yanked nichols out of his vehicle as the 29-year-old tells officers he just wants to go home. a few moments later you see nichols escape from police who then tase him as he takes off down the road. at that
shouting wherehe is nancy? when he entered, the house speaker was not there atno the time. th new video appearers to show a smashed glass back door where the suspect may have enteredashe their home. police respondedd glas to a wele check. if that we re not sure whether that wa s pehome alarm or a call from paul pelosi.lo we re waiting on those details. it happened aroundarou twond thirty in the morning when they encountered this. our officer ours observed mit pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled a hammer away from miss pelosi from and violentlmry assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackleour offid the suspect, din him, took him into custody,nd requested emergency backupendere and rendered medical aid. wa sd o is not clear from the chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer or whether the suspect brought itte grab him and used it to enter a home or whether mr. pelosi perhaps grabbed it after he heard somebody breaking into t
we ll get you an update on his condition shortly. we know the suspect has been booked on numerous charges, including attempted homicide as we heard from the san francisco police a short time ago. the suspect is 42-year-old david depape who police say attacked paul pelosi with a hammer and it happened after 2:00 a.m. that s when they got the call or the notification that they should head over there. we have fox team coverage ahead and also squeak we planned earlier. now there s a lot to talk to him about. lee zeldin, who is the candidate for governor in new york. crime is very central to this race in new york against the governor who took over when governor cuomo stepped down, kathy hochul. this race is getting very tight. a couple of one attempt on lee zeldin during the course of his running for governor and a very scary incident that happened with a gun and people hiding in his front lawn during the course of the campaign as well. ppening everywhere. first to jonathan hu