for peaceful protests. what do you love most about your son? is that even a fair question? eth not a fair question because everything about my son, i loved, but what i loved the most was the way he affected people and the way he touched people. reporter: with the quick firing of officers, memphis has set a blueprint for the country. his legal team is calling for a law in tyre nichols name where officers would have to intervene where other officers are committing a crime. a funeral is set for tyre nichols next week, major. garrett: elise, thank you. with protests and demonstrations starting in cities across the country, police departments are on high alert. jeff pegues spoke with the memphis police chief who call the officers actions inhumane. reporter: in the video the officer showed no mercy repeatedly beating and tasing nichols.
describe how i feel, chernyavsky said. but far more important than any number of medals and coins? weapons and rockets, of course, he said, that way, the war would be over quicker. a plea from all the president s men. debora patta, cbs news, kramatorsk. eastern ukraine. garrett: dozens of vehicles collided on a snowy interstate today in the midwest. the details straight ahead.
garrett: reaction tonight from the former speaker of the house. gripping testimony in the murder trial of alex murdaugh, new at details about the night his wife and son were killed. the deadly shooting outside an israeli synagogue on this holocaust remembrance day. massive pileup as the threat of winter weather blankets the country. and the story we all need tonight, on the road, with the enduring love not even alzheimer s could break. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. disturbing and horrifying video of the memphis police beating of tyre nichols was just made public. the city waited till this evening to release four different videos until schools were out and people were home there work.
evidence, thus far, as to why nichols was stopped in the first place. major. garrett: jeff pegues, thank you. in california, we re also getting our first look at the surveillance and police body camera video from the night of last year s attack on paul pelosi, the husband of former speaker nancy pelosi. a san francisco superior court judge ordered the release after a coalition of news agencies, including cbs news, argued that it should be made public. here s cbs carter evans. reporter: police body cameras captured the attack in progress. what s going on, man? reporter: paul pelosi and david depape, both holding on to a hammer. drop the hammer. nope. hey, hey, hey what s going on. oa, whoa! reporter: we froze the video after depape swung the hammer. the impact to pelosi s head occurs out of view. i got him! i got him! reporter: officers tackle depape while pelosi is unconscious and bleeding. what is your name, sir? paul pelosi.