newsroom. i m jim acosta. outrage and calls for action following the release of video showing the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. that s where weigh start. the images we are going to show you right about now are graphic and disturbing but critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. here is what we know at this hour. nichols was pulled over by memphis police on january 7th, allegedly for reckless driving. in a shocking development, the police chief says the department has not been able to find anything to substantiate that blame. this video shows the moment police catch up to nichols when he runs away. again, if you haven t seen it yet, need to warn you, it is incredibly graphic. no! no! give me your [ bleep ] hands! hey! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! ooh! watch out, watch out! mom! you can hear nichols crying out for his mother who just blocks i way. officers continue to hit and spray nichols struggling with him on
against every piece of training, pulling him out of the car, pulling him to the ground. he is asking, why? why are you stopping me? what did i do? and then there is pepper spray used. and they are continuing to be overly aggressive with him. he comes loose and runs away. and then, of course, the second enco encount, which is so brutal. a lot captured on this overhead camera on a pole, a camera that is run and controlled by the police. and there what you see is just so, so brutal and horrific. officers kicking and punching him. officers using a metal baton, it s called an asp. an officer stretching his hands over his shoulder and hitting tyre in the head. later we see tyre seemingly not really conscious and his head,
judge, on probation until 2044. is this a real story? an investigative reporter broke it. he joins us to confirm. the bare bones of the story, doesn t seem like that could be real, but it is? yeah. john perry has committed a heinous crime. he broke into the home of a judge and brutally assaulted the judge s daughter in the shower with a metal baton. she fled the home bloodied and naked. when arrested, he was found wearing a bullet-proof vest. in his car, he had knives, handcuffs, parachute cord and a shovel. this is a bad dude. jetblue forced all 25,000 of its employees to get vaccinated last year, whether they liked it or not. they won t hire you if you haven t had the vax. they did hire this man. interestingly enough, the crime he was convicted of was assault with a deadly weapon while wearing a mask.
sentenced to prison for assaulting a police officer during the violent insurrection. devlin thompson of washington state was sentenced to 46 months after pleading guilty to hitting an officer on the head with a metal baton. he also tried to throw a speaker at law enforcement. he ended up hitting and injuring the fellow rioter. more than 140 other rioters face the same charge thompson faced. the house committee investigating the insurrection is asking for the first time to question a sitting member of congress. the january 6th panel requested that pennsylvania republican scott perry voluntarily sit down for an interview. perry was just chosen to be the next leader of the house freedom caucus. the panel says it wants to discuss his effort to install former justice department official jeffrey clark as acting