called in so that it would be a truly independent investigation. i m in regular contact with the u.s. attorney here in memphis, and we are collaborating on this. i myself used to be a u.s. department of justice civil rights lawyer before i was a federal prosecutor. and so i know that the federal part of the investigation will often take longer than the state part of the investigation. so i suspect that our office will render a decision well before the federal authorities make their decisions. often considered the back stop in looking to see, but continuously proactive. when we met, steve, i knew we d meet again one day, but i couldn t imagine it would be these circumstances. thank you for joining us. yeah. thank you, laura. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst elliot williams and former fbi assistant director for intelligence joshua school. it s a very difficult case to think about this happening, the idea of the allegations of a person being beaten for three minutes following a
days after a memphis traffic stop. lawyers for nichols family tell cnn preliminary results from an independent autopsy show the 29-year-old died from, quote, extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. the family says this is consistent with what they saw on the video of his encounter with police. nichols beaten for three minutes. just think about that. a boxing round, three minutes. three minutes this man was allegedly beaten by five officers. five black officers were fired even before the video of that arrest has even been publicly released, and two members of the memphis fire department have also been fired in the week of nichols death. i want to bring in steve mulroy, the shelby county district attorney dealing with this very investigation down there in memphis. steve, it s good to see you this evening. there are a lot of questions being asked about what happened
and the chief made a very prompt decision to remove those officers, which they have the power to do. that s the first course of action. the second was to contact a district attorney, bring in the tennessee bureau of investigation, and then the parallel civil rights investigation. i cannot see, right now, based on everything we have heard, it being a minimalist video. i think this is going to be very graphic. i think it is going to be disturbing. but i will say this dialogue with many in the major city chiefs the major city chief are trying to reform policing. they are trying hard. and some of this, as the district attorney said they have a new police chief there, been there about 18 months. this is going to be something that they are going to have to change culturally. and i know that the leadership in the law enforcement community is looking at this instance as horrifically as all the citizens in the united states. that s a great point you have raised. and just the idea we w
i know that the leadership and the law enforcement community is looking at this incident as horrifically as all the citizens in the united states. that s a great point that you ve raised. and just the idea of we re talking about the culture of law enforcement, but i think the point you are intimating as well is the idea of what this does to have this be the perception of law enforcement more broadly, what this does not only to morale, what this does to policing, what this does to perception in communities, feelings of safety by those who are first responders, and we ve got a long way to go, as well on this investigation. thank you, gentlemen. nice to see you both. we ll be right back. start by cooking a lasagna. load your dishes. 24 hours later, when your dishwasher is full, let finish quantum clean your dishes. if the stains aren t gone, your lasagna is on finish. ( ) what s the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it s neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look
memory colored by what they saw on the video. so in cases like this, we generally want to get key witness interviews completed and we re doing that as fast as we can, and then i think the video will be released. so has this video been seen individually by any of these five officers who were fired or the two firemen as well, or their counsel or the police union? not to my knowledge, but we did we do know that the family of tyre nichols and their counsel was shown the video. will there be the full video provided once the concerns you have raised have been resolved in terms of i understand completely the idea of not wanting to fatally compromise the investigation and to provide at least the avenue for the pursuit of justice. is the intention to show the full footage? and is it comes from body cam footage? is it coming from a police vehicle? where is the footage coming