thank you, shimon. stand by. i m going to toss it back to my colleagues in new york. but you re watching the video being played now, being released by the memphis police department at this point. erin? don, you know, it is amazing, as we watch this together, you re in memphis, i m here, we re watching this and we are still watching. everyone should understand, this is still the actual video released by the city of memphis. so as we re watching here, this isn t a replay. this isn t a let s just show how long it took them. this is still happening. he is still lying there. we understand there s another six or seven minutes more to go before this sky cam video ends. so all of this time is happening as they re milling around and as sanjay was just telling don, in critical condition, you have someone lying on the ground there and they re doing nothing, as our converage continues, thi is a special edition of anderson cooper 360 and i m erin burnett along with my colleague don le
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening, everyone. and barcodes in d.c. and don lemon is in memphis. we were watching you this morning, you started the day out with the police chief. here you are ending it with me in memphis. tell me what has transpired today that has really been something you will not forget. reporter: it has been a remarkable day, quite frankly remarkable 24 hours. yesterday, we got the charges for the police officers and now we woke up to the interview, very candid interview from the police chief. i was surprised gave an interview. considering the district attorney announced those charges, i think she felt confident it was her time to speak because she did not want to get in the way of the investigation. very candid about why she believes the charges were fair. she knew they would be strong charges. she does not
john berman will be joining you along with don lemon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is hard to say good evening tonight, having seen the video footage authorities in memphis made public just a short time ago. i m john berman here in new york. and in memphis, i m don lemon. we appreciate you joining us for our special coverage. today, tyre nichols mom asked me a very simple question about her son s deadly encounter with police three weeks ago this weekend as a matter of fact. that question was, where was the humanity? three days later, her son would be dead from the beating he d received. ten days after that, five cops, members of a specialized now deactivated so-called spcorpion unit, were fired. yesterday all five were charged with murder. and now we have video of what they did, john. and this video comes from a variety of sources, body cams, a pole-mounted surveillance camera. we re not going to show any of it lightly. in truth, though, there is no amount of
we have new developments today both sheriff deputies taken off duty in addition to the five cops charged with murder in connection with tyre nichols s fatal encounter with police. with me now is the shelby county district attorney whose department is prosecuting these five cops. thank you for joining us. can you talk to us about your reaction to these sheriff s deputies now? i can t really speak about those details because there is an ongoing investigation and a pending prosecution. we know there were two deputies that came on the scene afterwards and they have been relieved of duty pending administrative investigation by the sheriff department. it is important to note that administrative investigation was entirely separate from any investigations that we are doing with the district attorney s office. why is a sheriff just now reviewing the video? the statement says having washed the videotape for the first time tonight i have concerns about the deputies who appeared follo
tyre nichols, now, as we have been doing all evening, we have a warning, what you will see is a young man being beaten to death, it s graphic, the language is no less ugly as well. (screams) mom! what the use your hands. use your hands. give me your hands. give me your hands. again, what is most notable mentioning other things, done, amongst the brutality if you re trying to figure out who s calm, it appears to be tyre nichols there. it is the officers who have there emotions you know, at 11 or more there and seem to be escalating the situation almost every step of the way. it wasn t, sir, can you show me your license and registration. they went from 0 to 100 in less than five seconds or just immediately and john be what we saw there, that was the first video, that was the beginning as we know it gets much, much worse after that. i m sorry i m sorry, that was a little bit later but it did get worse after that because we so he tyre nichols they propped him up