happen to 20 nine-year-old to 29 year old tyree nichols after he was pulled over by police on january 7th. three days later, he was dead. an independent autopsy blamed his death an extensive bleeding caused by severe beating. and tonight, his mother pleads for peace. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. my lord. i didn t see it, but from what i hear it s going to be horrific. but i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets. amen. because that s not what my son stood for. people who have seen this police body cam video call it shocking, sickening, and appalling. i ve seen the video. as she stated, you will to. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. let me be clear. what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. so tomorrow night the public will see this video and then what? that s one of the questions that we ll be aski
hello, thank you for joining us today. i m abby phillip in washington. a major announcement is coming two ours from now in memphis, tennessee, the shelby county district attorney will be giving an update on the tyre nichols investigation. tyre nichols died three days after a violent confrontation with police and a source tells cnn that charges will be announced today. we ve now learned at least one of the former officers involved in the nichols arrest has been indicted and that s according to his attorney, the attorney for emmitt martin who says his client has already surrendered but it is not clear what charges he is facing just yet. and just in, we have new scanner audio of the incident. listen. we got one male black running. set up a perimeter. scorpion car come over. running on foot. run that tag and see what the address is. he s fighting at this time. by the time that incident ended nichols wound up in the hospital in critical condition. his family has releas
the meantime we do have some police scanner audio. this is right before, we are told, that the police beat tyre nichols. so this is where i think they are first pulling him over. so let s listen to that. one male running. scorpion car, pull over, when running on foot. run that tag he s fighting at this time. what do you hear there, john? i hear they have made the stop, but we don t hear that part. and then he s running. and then he comes on in says run that tag and see where it comes back to. so he s gotten away, in the trying to figure out, well if he s running home, where is that, because it could be nearby. and of course it is, it s about half mile away. and that standard police stuff, right? that s right. that s what they should be
running on foot. run that tag and see what the address is. he s fighting at this time. by the time that incident ended nichols wound up in the hospital in critical condition. his family has released this disturbing image that you are about to see. and video of that arrest led to this and we are told it will be released on friday. the people who have seen the footage describe it as simply horrific. the memphis police chief is among them. take a listen to what she had to say. this is not just a professional failing. this is a failing of basic humanity. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. so here s what we know. five police officers and two members of the city s fire department have been fired since nichols died and the attorney for the family is calling for murder charges for those officers. cnn s shimon prokopecz is