heinous, reckless, and inhumane. i m microal smerconish of philadelphia. those are the comments made. now that the rest of us have seen it, nobody can dispute that characterization. tyre nichols died from those injuries three days later, but was it second-degree murder as state law defines it? let s go to the video. i, of course, warn you the clips are difficult, they re disturbing to watch, there s a lot of foul language. first we saw an officer arriving at the scene and the situation rapidly escalating. damin , i didn t anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the funking ground. get on the ground. i m going to tase your ass. all right. i m on the ground. i m on the ground. on the ground. i m going to tase you. get on the ground. now. i ll tase you. all right, okay, all right. i ll break your turn the fuck around. put your hands behind your back. you guys are really doing a lot right now. nich
it was murder plain and simple says michael. manslaughter is conventionally what you would see charged in a case like this. of course, at the end the baton blows, the kicks to the head, god awful. i like my colleague elie honig s work. it was an aggressive charge. we will see whether they can prove it or there is some other outcome in the case. what else came in? limited on time today, so i have to hustle. what child after watching these police brutality videos would want to zbroe up to be a good cop? i worry about that. i am worried about recruitment especially among african american males in the ranks of law enforcement. one of the data points i saw pertaining to memphis is they are understaffed. they haven t met where they need to be and i got to believe they will have a hard time. the vast majority of good cops. men and women, that s what i would tell young people. see you next week. with bank of. see cousinin jimmy over there? his girlfriend just caught the bouquet so.
their actions would result in the dealt of mr. nichols. now, this is a really important point, michael. i want to make sure people understand this. the jury in this case will not return a verdict. they will return 35 verdicts because we have five defendants here charged with seven accounts each. the second-degree murder being the top count. they re going to have to the defendant by defendant, asays their acts, and were these acts knowingly aimed at and done withable certainty they would result in the death of a person. we could have different results and different verdicts. i can imagine these defense lawyers wanting to parse out each of these cases and perhaps the finger in a different direction. in broad strokes thinking about this as a composite t prosecution is going to say what? the prosecution is going to say they did knowingly engage in such conduct. the baton blows are going to
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