through something like this. yet again, black parents grieve a son s death from police brutality. it s a story that dates back to the very origins of america. and it s a history that conservatives are fighting very, very hard to eliminate from our schools. also tonight, the unanswered questions in tyre nichols death and the police chief responsible for hyperaggressive police units with names like scorpion and red dog. plus, the possibility that a former fbi official accused of secretly working for a russian oligarch could have played a role in tipping the 2016 election to donald trump. we begin tonight with the fallout over the tragic death of tyre nichols at the hands of five memphis police officers. now, if you have a heart, what happened to the 29-year-old father, skateboarder, fedex driver and amateur photographer should outrage you. it should shock and disgust you. as should the so-called brothers who chose to begave like a little blue gang rather than black men
as should the so-called brothers who chose to begave like a little blue gang rather than black men. but it shouldn t surprise you what happened to tyre nichols was as american as apple pie. from the stort, the european colonies in the americas were designed to produce two kinds of people. subjects and citizens. and violence was at the center of it all. even once they left europe in the early 17th century, the colonizers of this continent remained at the subject of the european kings. their citizenship existed at the pleasure of the monarchies of england, spain, and france. whatever your wealth or land holdings if you were not the king, you were his subject. but with an ocean between them and the kings, their courts and their armies, these european lords in america increasingly yearned to live free of that status. in this vast beautiful land wrested through extreme violence through the grasp of the indigenous, every man could be a