routine between. consistent with what they saw on the video of his encounter with police. tyre nichols beaten for three minutes just think about that. a boxing round, three minutes. three minutes this man was allegedly beaten by five officers. five black officers were fired, even before the video of that the rest had even been publicly released. two members of the memphis fire department have also been fired in the wake of tyre nichols s death. i want to bring in steve mulroy, the district attorney dealing down there with steve, it s good to see you this evening. there are a lot of questions being asked about what happened to tyre nichols and when the public might be able to see this video for themselves. and the idea when it will be released? and one of the considerations to do so? right. thank you for having me, laura coates. a lot of the peoples questions about what exactly happened will, of course, to be answered once people see the video. we expect that to happen
days after a memphis traffic stop. lawyers for nichols family tell cnn preliminary results from an independent autopsy show the 29-year-old died from, quote, extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. the family says this is consistent with what they saw on the video of his encounter with police. nichols beaten for three minutes. just think about that. a boxing round, three minutes. three minutes this man was allegedly beaten by five officers. five black officers were fired even before the video of that arrest has even been publicly released, and two members of the memphis fire department have also been fired in the week of nichols death. i want to bring in steve mulroy, the shelby county district attorney dealing with this very investigation down there in memphis. steve, it s good to see you this evening. there are a lot of questions being asked about what happened to tyre nichols. and when the public might be able to see this video for themselves. any idea when it wil
approach this investigation might change? i don t know that it changes the course of the investigation. i think we can anticipate that this video is going to be very graphic. clearly, the leadership of the memphis police department viewed that very quickly and the chief made a very prompt decision to remove those officers, which they have the power to do. that s the first course of action. second was to contact the district attorney, bring in the tennessee bureau of investigation. and then the parallel civil rights investigation. i can t see right now based on everything we ve heard as it being a minimalist video. i think this is going to be very graphic. i think it s going to be disturbing. but i will say this. in dialogue with many in the major city chiefs, the major city chiefs are trying to reform policing. yeah. they re trying hard. and some of this, as the district attorney said, they have a new police chief there been there about 18 months. this is going to be something th
for purportedly reckless driving. we ve learned from the family during their watching of the video, one of his last words were a call out to his mother. apparently he was 80 to 100 yards to his home. when we hear about this and what s happening now, i ll begin with you, joshua, on this. do you expect to see charging decisions given the firings that were almost immediate? i do expect to see charges coming pretty quickly on the stateside, as the district attorney had said. there are two parallel investigations going on right now, and both in collaboration. you have the tennessee bureau of investigation, which the district attorney called in to keep impartiality over this investigation, and then a parallel civil rights investigation being conducted by the federal bureau of investigation in conjunction with the u.s. attorney s office. on that note, do you think that there will be charges here, elliot? we ve all spoken about the derek chauvin trial and the way we
what s happening right now i wonder, i will begin with you, joshua, on this. do you expect to see charging discussions, given that the firings were almost immediate? i do expect to see charges come pretty quickly on the state side, as the district attorney has said. the two parallel investigations going on right now both in collaboration with the tennessee bureau of investigations which the district attorney called in to keep impartiality over this investigation and then a parallel civil rights investigation being conducted by the federal bureau of an investigation joining in with the u.s. attorney s office on that note, do you think that there will be federal charges here, elliott? and the idea we have all spoken about the derek chauvin trial and the way in which we all collectively all thought as a society, man, policing might be changed forever in the sense of, those who are watching something happen, a duty to render aid, and remember there was the powerful closing argument