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
mom! mom! it was a surveillance camera on the light poem that gave the clearest and most chilling picture of the encounter. the video shows nichols being hit, kicked, punched, hit with a baton multiple times in less than four minutes. no one appears to render any aid. the ambulance would not arrive for more than 20 minutes. almost as reprehensible as the baton blows and kicks to the head was the delay in getting medical attention that he needed. roughly 23 minutes passed between when he was sub duerred from the beating to the time the stretcher aarrived on the screen. all of these charges led to second-degree murder charges and more to the five memphis police officers. last night i tweeted my instant analysis as an attorney.