officers tell nichols to give them his hand as a struggle ensues on the ground. two officers hit and kick nichols as he s on the ground. mom! reporter: nichols continues calling for his mom. an officer is eventually heard yelling at nichols. a remotely operated pole-mounted police surveillance video of the neighborhood gives the clearest view of the blows. this shows officers hitting nichols at least nine times without provocation. when the camera first turns toward the scene, an officer shoves nichols hard with a knee or leg and nichols is pulled up by his shoulders and kicked in the face twice. after being pulled up into a sitting position, nichols is hit in the back with what appears to be a nightstick after being pulled to his knees, nicholls is hit again. once pulled to his feet, the video shows officers hitting nichols in the face multiple
two officers hit and kick nichols as he is on the ground. mom! reporter: nichols continues calling for his mom. an officer is heard yelling at nichols. i m going to [ bleep ] out of you. reporter: a police surveillance video in the neighborhood gives the clearest view of the blows. this shows officers hitting nichols at least nine times without visible provocation. when the camera first turns towards the scene an officer shoves nichols hard to the pavement with a knee or leg. nichols is pulled up by his shoulders and kicked in the face twice. after being pulled up into a sitting position, nichols is hit in the back with what appears to be a nightstick after being pulled to his knees, nichols is hit again. once pulled his feet, the video shows officers hitting nichols in the face multiple times while his hands are restrained behind his body, after which he falls to his knees.
saying that the actions of these former officers has nothing to do with this unit. it has to do with the officers. there is a lot more that they need to figure out about training with some of the officers who were a part of these units. the family does not want them on the streets. it will be interesting to see what the police department ultimately decides here. all right. thanks so much for your reporting. appreciate it. joining me now cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former police chief charles ramsey. chief, thanks so much for being with us. i know you believe the most damning video came from that camera perched up on a utility pole. we want to warn our viewers again the video is graphic. there is no audio, but you clearly see tyre nichols being kicked in the face, also pushed into the pavement, beaten by the other officers. later in the video he is being restrained and he is getting hit repeatedly with what appears to be a nightstick. you also see officers hitting
we are willing, if we want to allow people to kill together, to use any form of transportation, bus or ship or air. but when it comes together when it comes to the question of our living and learning together, we still do not have enough moral strength in the white house to make essentially a moral decision to support a constitutional decision. we were kneeling. we were knocked down. they start beating us with nightsticks, tramping us with horses, releasing the tear gas. i was hit in the head by a state trooper with a nightstick. i lost consciousness. fifty years later, i don t recall how i made it back across that bridge to the little church that we had left from. apparently, a group literally carried me back to the church. it would be perfectly understandable if you were bitter bitter today, bitter a week later
Erin Wenzel sued the city for assault, battery and negligence, claiming that on Aug. 14, 2020, an officer “ran at her and violently slammed into her with a nightstick” while she was leaving the area as police had instructed.