police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greatings i m simone sanders standing in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text
characterized as lone wolf s, but lone wolf storm roman packs. the problems that we see in these videos is a systemic throughout the police department, an american policing in general, they can try to point that out. the other thing that might be tricky to actually get to trial time is, the second degree murder charge isn t going to be easy to prove. but i trust the prosecutors cannon would indict these officers for it. david, what would it take to prove the second-degree murder church? to prove second-degree murder, you have to prove the officers knowingly caused tyre nichols death. that sounds obvious, but it can be tricky when you re actually in a courtroom. that s why you don t typically see officers charged in this way. even if you look at one of the most famous cases, the murder of george floyd by derek chauvin, derek chauvin wasn t charged with intentionally killing george floyd. he was charged with intentionally assaulting george floyd in the way that led to his death. th
to rise as crews made contact with hundreds of cut off communities. five former police officers in memphis, tennessee have pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and other charges in the case of tyre nichols. mr nichols, a young black man, died in hospital three days after being beaten in memphis last month. videos showed the officers repeatedly kicking and punching mr nichols after he d fled a traffic stop. david willis has more details his report contains some disturbing images. theirfaces masked, the five memphis police officers made their first court appearance as the mother of the young man they are accused of killing looked on. huddled before the judge, it was left to the lawyers dotted amongst them to enter pleas on their behalf. a plea of not guilty. urging patience, thejudge said