Company to make sure that their platform is not used to incite violence. and so that is something that we will continue to call on, but we are not going to comment on individual people. on tyre nichols, the negotiations that happened last year in the senate, obviously, paused, does the president want to see those resume on the george floyd policing? i think as you saw in his statement, the president was very clear, we need to deliver change. we must have accountability when law enforcement officers violate their oath and build a long lasting trust between law enforcement and the vast majority of whom wear the badge of honor in an honorary way, an honorable way i should say and the communities they are sworn to protect, and to serve, and so we need he previous we need to continue to do, to move towards that type of change. and he s going to continue to call on congress to come
Quickness with which the department was responsible for firing these guys that now we re seeing criminal charges. in addition, an autopsy commissioned by the family says that mr. nichols died of extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. he bled out basically based on what the police did. and these cases often there s a debate about whether what the officers did was actual cause of the death. so if there s a trial, i expect that to be an issue. but again, criminal charges aren t that surprising given what we think the video shows. soon, we ll all see it. and given how quickly they were discharged by the police department. and real concerns this that community as they anticipate the release of that video. ben crump, the attorney who represents the nichols family
High-profile cases, derek chauvin convicted of murder in the case in chicago. so with more confidence in the criminal legal system and more officers being prosecuted for excessive force, i think that we will see a peaceful reaction in memphis. i think all americans agree that s what we hope to see as well. thank you. we ll check in with you as we learn anything more. those five officers accused for their roles in the death of of tyre nichols earlier this month are now in custody. we ll have the lateest when we hear from the district attorney coming up as well. there s another headline we re watching here today. that s president biden, who is heading to virginia, just across the river, later this hour with a potentially huge opportunity
Is saying they will not do it. yeah, first, on tyre nichols, it s important to note being pulled over by police officer if you re black, you should not wonder if you ll leave that traffic stop alive. he should be alive today. on the budget and hypocrisy, under president trump, republicans raised the debt ceiling three times without any fanfare. and president trump contributed to the deficit by more than double digits. the debt ceiling is always a fight. what makes this different is we are very close to completely appending our economic system as we know it. defaulting on our bills. the conversation that s being had out there is disengine wous, but it s confusing for the
Good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and