cunningham, frank figliuzzi, tim alexander. that is tonight s reidout. i m going to turn things over to my pal and colleague. chris hayes. hey, chris. a, joy and at this hour, the country is grappling with the release of some video, with, i guess you would call it an encounter, that resulted in the death of a 29-year-old black man. it s on january 7th. that evening, around 8:30, memphis police officers stopped tyre nichols because, they say an emphasis on they say we still don t know, when where the other. they suspected him of reckless driving. today, the memphis chief of police told nbc news that the department is still unable to find evidence as to why the officers stopped tyre nichols that evening. in an initial statement when this happened, memphis police claim that, quote, a confrontation occurred notice the passive language between officers and nichols and nichols ran away on foot. they said that there was, quote, another confrontation when officers a
last word, i m ali velshi. is peace stay with us. our coverage continues. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle begins now. good evening, i m stephanie ruhle. most nights, i feel very lucky to have this job. i get to talk about how i see the world and my colleagues and i try to make some very to make sense. but this is a very difficult night for me. for all of us, together. because just a few hours ago, another horrific video of police appearing to kill an unarmed black man was released. this time from the memphis police department. it s a terrible example of awful police behavior resulting in the death of a human being. a human whose life is now defined by the brutality he suffered. we are not going to show you that video since it s been out there for four hours. you can make your own decision about watching it. that s what the internet is for. so you will not see that video this hour but you will see as trying to get the best answers we can to the questions we all have. fi
the world and my colleagues and i try to make some very to make sense. but this is a very difficult night for me. for all of us, together. because just a few hours ago, another horrific video of police appearing to kill an unarmed black man was released. this time from the memphis police department. it s a terrible example of awful police behavior resulting in the death of a human being. a human whose life is now defined by the brutality he suffered. we are not going to show you that video since it s been out there for four hours. you can make your own decision about watching it. that s what the internet is for. so you will not see that video this hour but you will see as trying to get the best answers we can to the questions we all have. first what we know right now. 29 year old tyre nichols was pulled over by memphis police on january seven for what they said was breakfast driving. he died three days later. that me repeat. he died after a traffic stop. memphis police have
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un