heinous, reckless, and inhumane. i m microal smerconish of philadelphia. those are the comments made. now that the rest of us have seen it, nobody can dispute that characterization. tyre nichols died from those injuries three days later, but was it second-degree murder as state law defines it? let s go to the video. i, of course, warn you the clips are difficult, they re disturbing to watch, there s a lot of foul language. first we saw an officer arriving at the scene and the situation rapidly escalating. damin , i didn t anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the funking ground. get on the ground. i m going to tase your ass. all right. i m on the ground. i m on the ground. on the ground. i m going to tase you. get on the ground. now. i ll tase you. all right, okay, all right. i ll break your turn the fuck around. put your hands behind your back. you guys are really doing a lot right now. nich
why no one took any action to render aid torsion make sure that paramedics were on the scene. i mean, isn t that part of the police protocol? you might be physical with somebody, but for god s sake, you then try and save their life? yeah. that s the protocol nationwide. if a person has been physically restrained or you ve had an altercation with him or her, the policy states you have to render aid immediately, even if it s a shooting yochl view to render aid immediately. that s normally done by the officers at the scene and until the fire department gets there, the medics get there, and they take over. here you have to look at the policy and procedures, but in this particular situation, it was i believe it was a 20-minute delay. getting the medics to the scene. you have to listen to communications taos why that