i ve been policing for more than 30 years. i ve devoted my life to this profession, and i m grieved, frankly, i m shocked, i m sickened by what i saw. i ve seen the video, and as stated, you will too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. good morning, everyone, i am in live in memphis. kaitlan is in d.c. we have it covered for you. the questions are what happened? what happened to tyre nichols? we are hours from finding out, police body camera video set to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern. video described as appalling, horrific, inhumane, video that has memphis and the country bracing for what could come next. justice for tyre. it has been 20 day as since a traffic stop led to an arrest so violent that tyre nichols ended up like this, hospitalized in critical condition. three days later he died. five ex-police officers are now charged with murder. cnn is covering this from every angle. over the next three hours we ll talk to the police chief, cj davis. this incide
tape that s going to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern time today, comparing to what happened with rodney king. we ll talk about that but listen to what he said. it reminds you of rodney king in many regards, assaulted, battered, punched, kicked, tased, pepper sprayed. it is very troubling when you think about tyre only weighs, at most, 150 pounds, calling for his mother. he yells out to her three times and then you never hear tyre nichols say another word on that video. you see him up against the car, sitting down in handcuffs and you see his body fall to the right. you can see now i m joined live now by the memphis police chief, cj davis thank you for joining us. i m going to wear my glasses because i have specific things i want to ask you about. these five officers have been charged with second degree murder in the death of tyre nichols. what s your reaction to these very serious charges? well, i expected serious charges. i really did. actually, the charges that we
hour. we ll get back to sara sidner. the chief also spoke in the interview about the family of tyre nichols, the mother and step father, and in just moments i m going to speak with them live as well here on cnn. so back to my colleague, kaitlan collins who s in this washington d.c. kaitlan, she talked about the need for reform and the help from folks in washington. and quite frankly, i hope they were listening to the interview and they will act. that was a really consequential interview, don. to hear her say that everything they observed the officers did was outside their training is a stunning statement from the police chief. it will be fascinating to see how lawmakers here on capitol hill respond to that. how the white house responds to it. because they ve been weighing in as well. i m going to be joined by the white house s john kirby, the spokesman for the national security council next. we ll discuss that, the latest on ukraine aid and the tanks
i think they should be briefed on them, whether they need to have the specific documents in hand or not, i don t know. i would say that both the department and the congress need to be careful that what we do in handling this doesn t interfere with any investigation that the justice department is conducting. so, you know, with that caveat, i think we should be briefed in a way that allows us to do our oversight and protect our sources and methods. congressman adam schiff, now rubbin ing running for a senate seat in california, thank you so much for joining us on all of these important issues this morning. thank you. officials across the country are on high alert. they are bracing for protests that could erupt after the release of that video showing the brutal beating of police by tyree nichols. we ll have more on that and an exclusive interview with his parents. they ll sit down with don, just ahead.
if you guys are here for me and tyre, then you will protest peacefully. yes, ma am. yes, ma am. can you get your point across but we don t need to tear up our cities, people. because we do have to live in them. and that was tyre nickels mother speaking last night. i m don lemon in memphis. kaitlan is in california d.c., poppy is off. we ll take you through what is going to happen in memphis and live right now at the police department, i ll tell you why in moments. you saw what happened last night, the vigil. the family pleading for everyone to be calm if they are going to protest. the five officers charged, some arrested, we ll go through it. the family s attorney, ben crump describing what happened on the