the footage horrifying and disgusting. inssing.l of memphis officers involved have been arrested and charged with second degree murder. and other felonies. the incident happening earlier this month on january 7th, when twenty nine year old terry the initwas pulled over fo29-yer suspicion of reckless driving. an initial confrontation occurred between the officers and nichols. he then fled the scene sc and later the confrontationenede happened and the officers arrested nichols. he went to the hospital with serious injuries and died three days later. on january 10th, the followingfn week, memphis police launched an investigation, as didigation the doas didj. january 20th, those five officers were fired and were arrested yesterday. pe cities are preparing for unrest, but tyree nichols mom p is pleading the supporters the supporters to protest t peacefully. and but i want each and every one of you to protest in peace . i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing upties the
sod that s not that s not who we are. and so we ve got to preparee tot to bring the toughest punishment, if indeed it p rel issue ofwe expect it to be. and as it relates to the issue of when is the best time to bring it out, i thought that a monday morning at eight might be the best time to let this go on. but this is what they re saying ,jesse .at p they re saying that peopleeo will be at worplt work ak, kidse i school now. people will be home.unde readyrstand they re to impose a curfew and to shut everything down. is is so maybe it s the right t time. this is the police chiefhe addressing the timing ofs the release. let s watch that. we think aboutwatc the entirh th publico to tell you that we thought about schools. we thought about business. businessand we felt like fridayf afternoon, if there were individuals decideere they wanty to peacefully protest at least other individuals would have gone home. schools would be out and itif w wouldn t be as disruptive as it would have been