we begin with our top story. memphis, tennessee, now on edge as officials brace for potential unrest over the release this evening of video capturing the traffic stop and con tronation that left a 29-year-old black man dead. he died in the hospital three days after his encounter with police in which five officers are accused of beating him. his family shared this photo of him in the hospital. the attorney for nichols family says the video shows police treating nichols like a pinata. the family has urged the public to demonstrate peace think. his mother spoke to cnn about her son s death. i just feel like my son was sitting here on assignment from god. his assignment was over. it s over. he was sent back home. god is not going to let any of his children s names go in vain. all five officers associated with this incident have now been fired and charged with second-degree murder. as of this morning, four of them have been released after posting bail. one remains in custody.
we begin with our top story. memphis, tennessee, now on edge as officials brace for potential unrest over the release this evening of video capturing the traffic stop and con tronation that left a 29-year-old black man dead. he died in the hospital three days after his encounter with police in which five officers are accused of beating him. his family shared this photo of him in the hospital. the attorney for nichols family says the video shows police treating nichols like a pinata. the family has urged the public to demonstrate peace think. his mother spoke to cnn about her son s death. i just feel like my son was sitting here on assignment from god. his assignment was over.
through the night to try to contain any trouble. earlier in the day it was actually more of an all ages st. then it turns and it turned very quickly. there was several protestors on the side streets preparing bricks and fires and preparing for con tronation. thank you so much. we re going to keep you up today. today marks two years since the deadliest mass shootting in american history when 58 people were killed and many more injured in las vegas, nevada. we ll be attacking to a prominent gun safety advocate for getting something done. and the senate is still saying they re waiting on president trump. parkinson s.
we don t expect any definitive information soon, is because of the potential involvement of explosives here. now, i don t want to speak more definitively than we know from the reporting, and what we have heard from law enforcement has been a little woolly on this subject. there s a lot of may be, could possibly be, could be investigated as than declarative statements. but from what we are told by law enforcement, there may have been an explosive device, at least one, left at the site of the initial shooting this morning. that is what blake mccoy was just describing as why that initial shooting scene is still being described as a live scene and why law enforcement is describing those buildings as not cleared and they re moving so quicarefully there, there mae an explosive device. we ve also heard a description that there may have been something like a pipe bomb that was thrown possibly during the course of the con tronation of the suspects in the suv cl
this is a yellow clean solution they give us. they won t give me the broom because i had an incident last week with one of the guards and we got into, like, a con tronation. now we won t give her the broom. we used to give her brooms and all of that stuff. last week, she decided she was going to try to jab at an officer through the tray slot with the broom. in the few mornnths she s be at bear county, she s been fighting with staff and other inmates. now she s confined to a single-person cell 23 hours per day. it is often a noisy, disruptive unit. some of them are very hostile. some of them are very aggressive. we do have to be very careful. her latest arrest came after a fight with a bank security