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
the case would take time to come together. but there are those, tyre nichols family among them, who believe these brutal bodycam images speak for themselves. they capture what their own police chief described as a wolf pack mentality on the part of the officers involved. having pulled mr nichols over only yards from his home, they drag him from his car and punch, kick and beat him with a baton as he calls out for his mother. tyre nichols was taken to hospital but died three days later of his injuries. he has been described as a sweet natured young man, who had his mum s name tattooed on his arm. what prompted the officers to pull him over is still unclear, but five tadarrius bean, demetrius haley, emmit martin, desmond miller and justin smith are facing charges of second degree murder. all were part of a specialised street crimes unit, disbanded in the wake
investigation. tonight, the family of tyre nichols finding reason to hope, amid so much grief. civil rights attorney and former prosecutor david henderson joins me now. okay, david, the officers entered a not guilty plea. we see the package from priscilla thompson, their lawyers believe there s more to see. but we have all seen the videos. what defense can these officers bring? you know, the only real defense here is to put the memphis police department on trial. i say that because you can say all you want to about we saw a snippet of the video, nothing undoes the snippets that we ve seen so far. there is no good defense to these crimes. the only thing officers can do is either one, try to flip on each other, try to make it clear that they are being
however, the op-ed says, look, she can bring the charges, and i do believe she will. not just against trump, like a dozen other actors in washington in georgia. but it gets pretty quickly, and there s going to be a mess of motions and a year of more until a jury is actually sworn. that s the sort of sub headline to that op-ed, i think it s accurate as well. she s coming at him, as soon as she does, there will be a lot of skirmish-ing and people are hoping for, and immediate trial and an immediate conviction. that won t happen. justice rolls slowly, harry lippman, john allen and david thank you all very much. coming up, we ve got the former memphis police officers that story who recused of killing tyre nichols. they appear in court. what we re hearing from the nichols family in the da prosecuting the case. and later, nbc s explosive interview with vice president harris on the war in ukraine. we will look at where things stand in the nearly year old conflict. the 11th hour just get
ukraine. i ll see you tomorrow night at 8 pm eastern,, the 11th hour starts right now. tonight, explosive new evidence in the dominion lawsuit against fox news what host we re saying behind the scenes about the big lie. then, the five former memphis 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. gratings 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