brutal beating what the story tells us about policing and crime in america. nichols never should have died. for those of us who are rightly concerned about what we may call government overreach it is the worst kind taking life without any care of due process and man who did it we cannot even call them police officers insult the hundreds of thousands of brave officers who put their lives on the line to protect every day we saw and is visited videos is murderous thugs and savages. that these events bring the same toxic debate all police are demonized because some abuse their power as a result america s police are undermined. the conversation about the cops. and of course this is a tragedy and they should be prosecuted but if we don t have some level realize it s not white cop or black cop but a cop who is under stress and underpaid a cup semi district they are only paid $14 an hour. steve: exactly on top of all of that defined the police and every police department and office
brutal beating what the story tells us about policing and crime in america. nichols never should have died. for those of us who are rightly concerned about what we may call government overreach it is the worst kind taking life without any care of due process and man who did it we cannot even call them police officers insult the hundreds of thousands of brave officers who put their lives on the line to protect every day we saw and is visited videos is murderous thugs and savages. that these events bring the same toxic debate all police are demonized because some abuse their power as a result america s police are undermined. the conversation about the cops. and of course this is a tragedy and they should be prosecuted but if we don t have some level realize it s not white cop or black cop but a cop who is under stress and underpaid a cup semi district they are only paid $14 an hour. steve: exactly on top of all of that defined the police and every police department and office
prosecutors have called several witnesses as they lay out their case against murdoch. the opening week featured graphic and revealing accounts from the first responders to the shootings of maggie and paul murdoch as well as information that appeared to contradict what alex murdoch investigators. text neither paul nor maggie has any defensive wounds. the evidence is also going to show both maggie and paul were shot extremely close range. quick s did you ever see the tears in your interactions with mr. murdoch? lexi did not appear to be crying he was upset i didn t see visible tears. [inaudible] [inaudible] we had a wonderful marriage. as good as it could be. quick s senior correspondent laura ingle is lined with more of the trial so far and what we can expect this coming week, lorber quick s hi arthel most of what we learned the first week of testimony was about the evidence in this case who collected it, where it was sent and how it was processed. alec murdoch is in charge of
,you will remember, lecturinguiy the rest of us about equity, meaning that straight white men are bad. and yet, strangelyy th, the perl he chose for this job was not ws a member of a racial or minority. guinority. privileged straight white guy.y he was called nick mcquaid. nick mcquaid went to private schools. he wrote at wesleyan. he w went to columbia for law school. he is definitely not oppressed. but that did not mattemar to joe biden. some jobs are too important for affirmative action. liquid ertives main qualificn was being the former law l partner of hunter biden aws criminal attorney in december criminal attorney in december a latham and watkins lawyer called chris clark to defend him againslaar t potential federaljust a tax charges. just a month later, hunter biden s dad hired chris clark s partner, nick mcquaid, to oversee the agency that could bring those federal tahex charges. that seems like an obviousglr and glaring conflict, buint no, nick mcquaid did not
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