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Of protocol. all this, after the memphis police department initially fired the five officers who have all been charged with second degree murder. lawyers for at least two ex officers emmitt martin and desmond mills say they plan to plead not guilty. joining us now is ellison barber live in memphis. what do we know about the roles of these two other officers and the three emts? reporter: when it comes to the two other additional officers, the big question you touched on it, the family of tyre nichols has and also community activists, why are we only finding out about these two officers now? one of the officers has been relieved of duty. we don t know their fame. we know the name of this officer, officer preston ....
Of tyre nichols released a statement said that some of the questions remained is going to be required on what the police officer saw when he arrived at the scene, and quote, he was pepper sprayed, and whether desmond s actions crossed line. and so joining us is todd axle, the former chief of police there at st. paul, and so, thank you for joining us. and so you are saying that this should be about individual action, and all five officers who have been fired have been charged with second-degree murder and other charges, and do you think that it could be changed based on what you are hearing from him, and what you saw in the video? absolutely not. i may have been, and he is saying looking at the individual actions, but it is making up the collective. america needs to pay attention to the audio. ....
The mission we send them on need to be consistent with constitutional policing. and joey, a defense attorney for one of the accused former officers desmond mills released a statement yesterday saying mills arrived late to the scene and added, quote, we re confident that the questions of whether desmond crossed the lines and others crossed and whether he committed the crimes charged will be answered with a resounding no. it does sound at this point that this is how perhaps some of the defense arguments are going to be shaping up here in the coming weeks. well my client didn t do what these other guys did. he was standing back. wasn t doing as much of the beating and the kicking as the other how do you how do you take stock of that? not very well. good luck with that defense. and here is why. jim, everything that occurs, there is a context. you have to know and understand and believe that even if your conduct may not be in the argument that you make to the ....
Burn for a life snuffed out, the life of 29-year-old tyre nichols where he felt the most free in a skate park. 12 years later he ended up dead. officials say beaten by five men sworn to protect and serve. the grand jury returns indictments against all five with the same charges. while each of the five individuals played a different role in the incident in question. the actions of all of them resulted in the death of tyre nichols and they are all responsible zblbl justin myth, demetrius haley, desmond hills and two others were fired from memphis police department and now stand charged with seven crimes, second degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. there is police body cam and sky ....
To being a law enforcement officer. not only is mr. mills devastated to find himself charged with a crime, but somebody on the other side of law enforcement, somebody who has been in charge of keeping our community safe, to be accused of something like this hurts him on another level. reporter: do either of you have experience in law enforcement departments? desmond mills does, he s been a jailer in mississippi and tennessee. reporter: i understand attorney/client privilege, but can you talk about their disposition today? why don t you answer first. well, any time a police officer is going to jail, it s a traumatic moment. so he was experiencing that this morning. i surrendered him to the tbi this morning and he had resolved ....