justice too. when ej bradford was killed on thanksgiving night in birmingham, alabama, it s important that the community see swift justice too. when terrance was a black man having car trouble in the broad daylight in tulsa, oklahoma, walking away with his hands up and they shot him in the back, on video, it was important that the community see swift justice too on that. when botham jean eating ice cream in his own apartment, police come and shoot and kill him, and say i thought it was my apartment, in self-defense, and her position, it was a need to have swift justice too. and so no more. no more can they ever tell us
0 something, i don t know what you writing on social media. i know what i saw on the tape. and the tape speaks for itself. they never asked this man for his license. never asked for the car registration. snatched him out of the car and began beating him. nobody mentioned nothing about no girlfriend. nobody mentioned nothing about no they started beating an unarmed man. tell em. in the city that they slayed the dreamer, what has happened to the dream? in the city where the dreamer laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes. and you watch him and you were too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream? well, we ll just tell them s
quote, we have never seen swift justice like this, referring to the almost immediate firing of the five officers involved and then, of course, these charges against them all the way up to second-degree murder which could land all these guys in prison for the rest of their lives if found guilty. so he said that that was instrumental in getting ahead of something that could have resulted in a much more violent reaction. do you agree with that? do you think that the reaction we got, which was relatively calm some incidents in new york stomping on police vehicles and the like was because local authorities got ahead of hit of it? well, they did get in front of it. ben crump is a personal friend of mine, neil, and i can tell you that the memphis citizens and the lawmakers there, they got very much in front. they were proactive rather than being reactive. but this could not happen, i
a great job, swift justice, they have been fired and charges given. we re grateful for the progress but we still need to follow through on the justice process and call on the mayor and the governor for police reform in our city. and then across the nation. and, of course, we need the george floyd bill passed that president biden has called for in light of this tragedy. you re speaking to a whole world of issues, a country of issues, but a lot has happened here in memphis, tennessee, there have been issued with the police department, you have been in the community, you ve been trying to get those issues fixed and changes. you said the george floyd police act, but how do we do that? memphis has a history of, quite frankly, bad policing. dr. king gave his last breath here. let s turn this into peaceful
like the chief said, the community needs to see swift action and swift justice, well when black people are killed by white police officers, we need to see the same kind of swift action, same kind of swift justice that we saw here in memphis, tennessee. tyre nichols s mother as you know said she still hasn t had time to grieve the loss of her son. all of us saw that really wonderful emotional interview that don lemon did with her earlier today here on cnn. how are his loved ones feeling tonight with the world about to see this video? obviously it is very emotional. mostl miss wells and mr. wells are the epitome of grace. when you heard her say she s asked for prayer and praying for everybody and even praying for the police officers family