know this. what are your thoughts? yeah, well, i absolutely agree and i am sure the chief davis was well aware that the words were not matching the actions. there was a depiction of an aerial view of what was happening and the words of the officers were saying was not matching the actions that we re seeing on the building, absolutely they reviewed every bit of that video. i am sure they made note of all of that, let alone the horrific assault that took place, but the fact that they were saying things that did not match what they were doing. also, it was the fact that they did not see that there was reckless driving, she did not even see the evidence for having made the stop in the first place. so, all of those things combined, certainly they discussed it all, the share responsibility and took immediate action intermittent when it for their acts. this is interesting, in pat cases of police brutality in the city of memphis, those
you have five police officers has obviously been fired. to fight about personnel, as. well one other point to make, alex, there was a six responding officer initially from the scorpion unit, from memphis police department. we have parts of his body camera. and you actually hear as you say with the abandoned car, him saying something to the effect of, i hope they stop him. and that perhaps is emblematic of this toxic culture we talk about right now, that desperately needs to be reformed. alex? i am glad you put that in perspective, sam. i didn t know from which officer that quote came. it did appear that that is exactly, i hope they stop him. now we. no thank you sam, for. that let s go from there to antonia hilton with the latest on community reaction. such troubling times in memphis today, antonia. what is it like? that is exactly right. it is troubling, it is tense. here on the days leading up to last night s release, people were imagining that the city was going to burn. they we
several of the members who are indicted now or who have been charged now were a part of that group and they said that they have heard from others who have had real serious problems with the way they were treated by that unit. so there is a lot to unfold here. but people have done so peacefully, just what tyre nichols family has asked for. absolutely. all right, sara sidner in memphis for us. thank you so much, sara, appreciate it. let s get more insight civil rights attorney areva martin and law enforcement analyst and former washington, d.c., and philadelphia police chief charles ramsey. good morning to both of you. thanks for being with us. areva, there are so many questions left to answer in all of this, including kind of this basic one, which is why tyre nichols was stopped? t in the first place. we know that the memphis police chief said there was no evidence he was driving recklessly. why did any of this happen?
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and the aftermath of bad policing looks like, now that we re in the body camera era. not only do people gather control phone footage like he had did during the death of george floyd but in this case, we re going to get this altercation through three different angles, mentioning sky, pole and body camera. this will be an hour people can dissect, look at, see this terrible thing that they say is just going to be absolutely appalling. that s the description we got today. and i think it also lines up on timing why, they wanted to announce the charges first, already have these officers arrested, and behind bars, and processed, before the public comes to terms with it. and i have spoken to officials, homeland security officials, right here, working in dc, and officials across the country, different police departments, they have been having calls all week, the major cities, the chiefs, the organizations, they have been having calls not only to handle what this will look like in memphis but ac