thank you, shimon. stand by. i m going to toss it back to my colleagues in new york. but you re watching the video being played now, being released by the memphis police department at this point. erin? don, you know, it is amazing, as we watch this together, you re in memphis, i m here, we re watching this and we are still watching. everyone should understand, this is still the actual video released by the city of memphis. so as we re watching here, this isn t a replay. this isn t a let s just show how long it took them. this is still happening. he is still lying there. we understand there s another six or seven minutes more to go before this sky cam video ends. so all of this time is happening as they re milling around and as sanjay was just telling don, in critical condition, you have someone lying on the ground there and they re doing nothing, as our converage continues, thi is a special edition of anderson cooper 360 and i m erin burnett along with my colleague don le
john berman will be joining you along with don lemon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is hard to say good evening tonight, having seen the video footage authorities in memphis made public just a short time ago. i m john berman here in new york. and in memphis, i m don lemon. we appreciate you joining us for our special coverage. today, tyre nichols mom asked me a very simple question about her son s deadly encounter with police three weeks ago this weekend as a matter of fact. that question was, where was the humanity? three days later, her son would be dead from the beating he d received. ten days after that, five cops, members of a specialized now deactivated so-called spcorpion unit, were fired. yesterday all five were charged with murder. and now we have video of what they did, john. and this video comes from a variety of sources, body cams, a pole-mounted surveillance camera. we re not going to show any of it lightly. in truth, though, there is no amount of
memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today s news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can t see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don t go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the
in memphis, it s important to see the body cam and cctv footage. keep in mind, tyre nichols was pulled over for allegedly reckless driving. this was about 8:30 p.m. on saturday, january 7th, and initially was taken down by the police. he was not cuffed, and got up at one point and fled during an altercation. body cam footage shows a very lengthy struggle with the police, with tyre nichols, even after police deployed both a taser and pepper spray. there is a question as to whether the taser actually hit him, but this is a view or warning. what we are about to place extremely graphic. but take a look at the initial incident. start there. [bleep]! i m not doing anything! [bleep]! turn the [bleep] around! all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the [bleep] ground! get on the ground! before i tase you or [bleep]! i m on the ground! lay down! [bleep]! [bleep] tase you! get on the ground! now! all right, okay! before i break you are [bl
o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave ashley: protesters reacting after police released body cam footage of the police involved death of tyree nichols, other cities saw demonstrators take to the streets. rachel: charles watson has body footage that is causing outrage across the country. reporter: good morning. prior to the release of body cam videos showing the violent beating of tyree nichols at the hands of memphis police officers, we were told those videos would be graphic and savage and the videos released by the city of memphis friday evening appear to live up to those descriptions. i didn t do anything. i was trying to if you don t lay down. i am on the ground. reporter: in the first video captured