. top of the hour this thursday morning. i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. happening right now, testimony is underway in the double murder case against disgraced and disbarred former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh. he s accused of killing his wife and youngest son in 2021. we ll take you inside of the courtroom just ahead. and aas soon as today police in fem memphis, tennessee, could release a number of videos from the death of tyre nichols. you see him there. overnight the memphis police chief called it a failing of basic humanity. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. those five officers and others failed our community and they failed the nichols family and that is beyond regrettable. in our outrage and frustration, there is still work to be done to build each other up, to continue the momentum of improving our police and community relationships and partnerships. to show those who watch us now that this behavior is not what will define our comm
and i m erica hill. kate bolduan will pick things up righ t now. [ no audio ] as they wait for the city to release videos showing police officers beating tyre nichols. the city s police chief spoke directly to this overnight. describing the video as heinous. that is the word that she used and she s pleading with residents to not react violently when they see it. we know that nichol s family has already seen the video. the family attorney said that it shows officers beating nichols, quote, like a pinata for three minutes after a traffic stop on january 7th. nichols died three days later. the five officers involved in the traffic stop have already been fired. the police chief also spoke to that overnight in that video saying that this was not just a professional failing, but also a failing of basic humanity and she said that there are additional officers also under investigation. the nichols family for their part is calling for murder charges now. and we ve just learned tha
department. for director wray, you could talk about how unusual this sort of operation is? has the fbi ever before penetrated a ran some ware network. so, we ve been listening to this, of course, jim, was an announcement about some ran some wear gang and we shared that with our evan perez. there was more than one effort there to ask some questions about these classified documents that have been found. of course, among former president trump, president biden and former vice president pence s other files and they were having none of it. it was the easiest way to put it. there was a district question asked to the attorney general general and he piv yosted and talked about this. we ll continue to follow that story for sure. thanks for join ug today. i m jim sciutto.
saying based upon the brutality and the specific nature of what these officers were doing, the length of time at which they do it, fact it was described as using him as a pinata and you look at the autopsy report and the public is saying that seems awfully intentional. it doesn t seem negligent or reckless, it seemed like you knew what you were doing and did it anyway. so that is the distinction when you have murder intent versus other lesser included offenses. and we should point out that internal investigation found they violations excessive use of force and duty to intervene and duty to render aid. great to have your insight. thank you. this just into cnn, the justice department said that it has seized a dark web website from a notorious ran some wear gang, that site has extorted more than $100 million from different organizations. the fbi said the so-called hive