. back live from memphis tonight the city released video showing the deadly police beating of tyre nichols, joining us is vicky terry the executive director of the city s branch. last we spoke we were anticipating the video coming out. it had not come out. you had not seen it. you have since seen the video, what s your reaction. horrified. truly. just brought me to tears, i was in tears, my stomach was in turmoil, and i just can t imagine what was going through the heads of those officers. you talked to us before about changes at the naacp wanted and quite frankly now i would imagine demanding and what are those. they ve got to change, they got to reform clean house, they
said that to you this morning about memphis being the blueprint for the country of what happened as far as the officers being fired and being charged you know, within 20 days of what happened. so i think this is it. memphis would be the blueprint for the country. thank you, vicky terry. we have much more reporting and reaction coming up straight ahead including an in-depth look at the life of tyre nichols. back in a moment. . s
assist the police in fighting crime in our community and yet they come to commit the very same crimes that we re trying to fight against. but flglory be to god a camera s there to capture what happened. i m here with my cohort, vicky, executive director. we fight together on for the cause of the naacp. know that president derrick johnson has sent his regards. he has sent his soldiers down from the national office of the naacp to stand next to this family. know that the naacp, national organization is standing with this family. we will fight to the end. we will fight with attorney ben crump. we will fight with this family. we will fight with push and we will fight with all those who are seeking justice for tyre. we want to thank pastor turner for opening up this church up again. thank pastor thomas. give him a hand. [ applause ] thank you. we want to thank all of these
thank you very much. thank you. miss vicky terry, the executive director of the naacp wants to say a brief word. good morning. i want miss wells to know she is not alone as a mother. i am a mother and i stand here with you, miss wells, proclaiming there will be a tyre nichols law in memphis, tennessee. if there is anything that i i am saying this today, we will fight together. we will support miss wells and the tyre nichols family. i was listening to her this morning and my heart was breaking right along with yours, miss wells, i was in tears all
beating of mr. nichols and the family is speaking now one day after five police officers were indicted for murdering their 29-year-old son. this morning a jaw-dropping preview of what we will see, that video and it comes direct from the memphis police chief. she warns her officers acted, quote, the same if not worse than the l.a. cops who beat rodney king a generation ago. her officers, the chief says, escalated. their aggression is just simply unexplainable. i was outraged. i was it was incomprehensible to me. it was unconscionable. i don t think i witnessed anything of that nature my entire career. really? really. that bad? it was that bad. what are we going to see then? you re going to see acts that defy humanity. you re going to see a disregard for life. duty of care that we re all sworn to, individuals watching will feel what the family felt and if you don t then you re not a human being. straight to the scene in memphis. shimon prokopecz is there. shim