we re following all the breaking news right now in the fatal police beating of tyre nichols in memphis, and that includes the new revelation that a seventh police officer involved in nichols arrest has been relieved of duty. let s bring in cnn this morning after don lemon, along with cnn legal analyst joey jackson and the former president and ceo of the naacp cornell william brooks. guys, thanks very much for joining us. adan, i know you just returned from memphis as more fire personnel, emts have now been fired. what s your sense from local officials as you spent days there? will we continue to see those who were at the scene face consequences? shocking this all happened. not so surprising that this is happening. they are doing exactly what they said that they were going to do. and i think every member of this panel will agree the police chief told me in that interview on friday morning that there could be more charges and more
the video one week ago today, i clearly, just like everybody else, i was appalled at what i saw. but i saw, really, three events taking place. the first encounter with the police. the second encounter with the police. and then the third one with the people that were supposed to try and rescue him. the firefighters and the emts. and i ve said from the beginning, wolf, everybody on that scene was complicit in this man s death. in one way, shape, form or another, somebody failed tyre nichols. they either failed him by using excessive force. they failed him by severely beating him, they failed him by not intervening, they failed by not rendering aid. in what humanity, what world do you leave somebody who is in agony and pain and clear distress laying on the ground for 20 minutes, knowing that he has sustained injuries that will likely cause death? so as you know, the sixth police officer in memphis has been relieved of duty.
confrontation. and you see some of the emts there as tyre s body is slumped over. they seem to be close to his body, picking him up. what happens is they go to this first scene, the initial scene. they are then directed to the second scene, where the confrontation occurs. according to the fire department, they are responding to a call for a person who has been pepper sprayed. and based on that and information they received on the scene, they took no action and took some action obviously later on when they took him to the hospital. but that is significant because it tells us what the fire department, what the emts were told as they were responding to that scene. of course from the video that we have seen, it was much worse than that. and so now as a result of this investigation, these three fire officials, emts, have been fired, wolf. we re also learning, shimon,
blinken trying to turn down the temperature between israelis and palestinians amid a new outbreak of deadly violence. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and let s get right to the breaking news on the firing of three memphis fire department personnel who responded to the fatal police beating of tyre nichols. cnn s crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is following all these late-breaking developments for us. shimon, tell us what we re learning about these employees and why they were let go. right, wolf. this just happening in the last few moments. the memphis fire department and city hall officials announcing that they have concluded their investigation of the response there by the emts, and have terminated, fired three personnel, two emts, and a
keeps developing. not only day by day, but almost hour by hour. certainly the breadth of this investigation is now it extends not only to memphis police department, but the shelby county sheriff s department, the memphis fire department and its firefighters and em ts. this is such a gross collapse of the system that we re supposed to trust, that it really is unspeakable. they re trying to absorb all of this. mind you, they re trying to absorb all of this while their son died, while a family member was taken away from them in this situation. as you know, we learned just a little while ago that three memphis fire department personnel, emts as you correctly point out have now been fired as well. you say that everybody on that scene, whether they were police, fire, emt, everybody was complicit in the death of tyre nichols. you calling for others to be fired and potentially criminally charged? absolutely. and let me tell you, when i saw