police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos we re about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground. more footage appears to show inaction by deputies and officers and paramedics on the scene. five officers are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. two sheriff s deputies at the scene were placed on leave pending an investigation and cnn s shimon prokupecz is live. we ll talk about the horrific video in just a moment, but we do have new breaking news, information coming in this afternoon, and that is that the memphis police department has
we have come out in a way that is in conjunction with what the family has asked for. they have been peaceful in protest, but they are very, very disturbed. we re out here today because we believe that no one else should go through what tyre nichols went through. they are grateful that the video came out so now the whole world knows what happened, that he was defenseless, that he was helpless. look how they grabbed him out of the car. there was no human inside of those men. maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i m pamela brown in washington and you are in the cnn newsroom. horrifying cruelty and the heartless disregard for a dying man. today, outraged americans are holding small and mostly peaceful protests. in memphis and several other cities protesters are making their voices heard in support of tyre nichols. his deadly beating at the hands of five memphis police officers is captured on video and released to the pu
memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today s news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can t see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don t go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the
five now-fired memphis officers are facing charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, misconduct, and oppression. we will go to memphis in moments where steve harrigan is standing by. first we turn to fox news chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. trace, what more have we learned about what happened that night? shannon, the video covers two separate scenes, but the first scene, the video picks up right before tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving. the thing is, we don t see any evidence of reckless driving or erratic driving. if police officers somehow fear that tyre nichols is posing a threat, the officers appear to violate protocol, which is to protect themselves and ask him to exit the vehicle. instead they go right up to the car, they pull him out, and immediately try to push into the ground. in the process, nichols is apparently pepper sprayed with some of the spray getting into the eyes of the officers on the scene, and t
in memphis, it s important to see the body cam and cctv footage. keep in mind, tyre nichols was pulled over for allegedly reckless driving. this was about 8:30 p.m. on saturday, january 7th, and initially was taken down by the police. he was not cuffed, and got up at one point and fled during an altercation. body cam footage shows a very lengthy struggle with the police, with tyre nichols, even after police deployed both a taser and pepper spray. there is a question as to whether the taser actually hit him, but this is a view or warning. what we are about to place extremely graphic. but take a look at the initial incident. start there. [bleep]! i m not doing anything! [bleep]! turn the [bleep] around! all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the [bleep] ground! get on the ground! before i tase you or [bleep]! i m on the ground! lay down! [bleep]! [bleep] tase you! get on the ground! now! all right, okay! before i break you are [bl