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
Who were shot and killed in Borough Market. The suspects had been confronted and shot by police within eight minutes of the first call. The suspects were wearing what looked like an explosive vest that were later established to be hoaxes. The ongoing operation is led by the met Working Closely with British Transport Police, and the ambulance and Fire Services full of at this stage we believe that sadly, six people have died in addition to the three attackers shot by police. There are at least 20 casualties taken to six hospitals across london but numbers are still rising. I would like to repeat our request for londoners to avoid the areas of londoners to avoid the areas of London Bridge and Borough Market to enable Emergency Services to continue this operation. This investigation, as i said, is led by the Counter Terrorism command and we ask for help from the public. Anybody with images film from the incident tonight, they can help us by uploading it to ukpoliceimageappeal. Co. Uk. You
Thought about, not just something they threw together tonight. The advice is sometimes a little bit different, it involves fighting back. At the official advice here is to get out of the area and tell the police. If you cannot get out, then hide. It shows they want to get that message across directly to the public because the way Police Communications work these days is to talk directly via twitter and social media to the public, and not worry about what people like me will say in reporting what the police say. Speak directly to the public and hope that people can get on with a life of a cell. Happens around them. That was our Home Affairs Correspondent talking to me earlier on. Since then we have learned from the Assistant Commissioner that six people have died in these Terror Attacks. We are at the cordon here and it is much calmer than it was a few hours ago but you can still see a lot of police down towards the end of the road. We are quite near the shard here as dawn breaks across
there. 140 pounds and five guys around him. there s no problem with you getting his hands. so, this is a conscious effort by the elite squad to violate this man s civil rights that led to his death. that is number one. secondly, i think that when we look at the fact that they could expedite this in a way that they should, and many of us have been saying this for years. now you see we were not being unreasonable, they were. why does it take a year for anyone else and you can move this fast? i give the police chief credit for terminating them even before the charges. and then for this family, who is in pain, and just minutes ago i talked again with the father for them to be pleading for peace when nobody heard that for their son, you have got policeman coming to the scene. one guy running up, pepper spraying. so much so he s pepper sprayed himself. this kind of reckless disregard