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Tyre Nichols FAMILY OUR TRUE ANGELS! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, and the world is watching.
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  Speaker 1: Many people are asking questions, why did this have to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Memphis to release the Tyree's Nichols arrest video at six
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Central seven Eastern Friday night. Some of Tyree Nichols's
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  Speaker 1: final words on video were gut wrenching screams for his mother.
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  Speaker 1: The family attorney has said. Tyree Nichols's mother recalls the
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  Speaker 1: moment that she learned of her son's arrest. This after
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  Speaker 1: five former Memphis police officers have been involved in the
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  Speaker 1: arrest have all been charged with murder and kidnapping. That
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  Speaker 1: was announced by the Shelby County District Attorney Steve mulroy.
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  Speaker 1: Nichols was pulled over on January the seventh by the
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  Speaker 1: Memphis Police for what they said the five officers said
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  Speaker 1: was reckless driving, and a confrontation occurred, the department said.
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  Speaker 1: The police chief said the department has been unable quote
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  Speaker 1: to find anything that substantiated the probable cause for reckless driving.
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  Speaker 1: The mother sat down with Don Lemon, and again, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to give an incredible amount of respect to Tyree
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  Speaker 1: Nichols family for the way that they have dealt with this.
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  Speaker 1: It is unbelievable to hear what they're saying. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you an example. I want each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: you to protest in peace, she said at a candlelight vigil.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want us burning up our cities, tearing up
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  Speaker 1: our streets because that's not what my son stood for.
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  Speaker 1: And if you guys are here for me and Tyree,
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  Speaker 1: you will protest peacefully. Tyree nichols mother said that to
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  Speaker 1: supporters at a candlelight vigil hours after the five former
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  Speaker 1: Members police officers were charged with murder. She sat down,
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  Speaker 1: as I said with Don Lemon at CNN was out
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  Speaker 1: about the moment you heard of her son's arrested. Listened
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  Speaker 1: to us. The Memphis Police Department banged on our door
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  Speaker 1: approximately around between eight thirty and nine o'clock, asking if
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  Speaker 1: I knew Tyree Nichols, and we said, yes, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: He's been arrested, arrested for what? DUI do you? I?
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  Speaker 1: My son don't drink like that. What do you mean,
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  Speaker 1: d U I? Well, we had to pepper spray him
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  Speaker 1: and chase him. So he's been attended to by the
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  Speaker 1: paramedics and we'll send him to the hospital and then
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  Speaker 1: after that he'll go to booking. What they then asked
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  Speaker 1: me was he on any type of drugs or anything
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  Speaker 1: of that nature. Because he was. They were saying that
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  Speaker 1: it was so difficult to put the handcuffs on them,
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  Speaker 1: and he had this amount of energy, superhuman energy, and
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  Speaker 1: what they were describing was not my son. So I
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  Speaker 1: was very confused. I asked if I can go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. They told me no. They left My husband
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  Speaker 1: and I. We got in our car and we went
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  Speaker 1: to go see if we could find Tide, because he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't answering his phone or anything. When I asked them
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  Speaker 1: where my son was, they said nearby, nearby? What is nearby?
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  Speaker 1: I got nothing from them. I think now that I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually putting things together, I believe they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: cover it up when they first came to my door.
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  Speaker 1: So around four o'clock in the morning, the doctors called
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  Speaker 1: from Saint Francis and said, missus Wells, do you know
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  Speaker 1: your son's in the hospital, And I said yes, I
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  Speaker 1: was advised by the police officers. He said, why aren't
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  Speaker 1: you here, and I said the police officer said that
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't come because he was under arrest. The doctor
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to tell me that my son had went into
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  Speaker 1: cardiac arrest and that his kidneys were failing. This doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound consistent to somebody being taste or a pepper sprayed.
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  Speaker 1: When my husband and I got to the hospital and
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  Speaker 1: I saw my son, he was already gone. They had
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  Speaker 1: beat him to a pope. He had bruises all over,
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  Speaker 1: his head was swollen like a watermelon. His neck was
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  Speaker 1: busting because of the swelling. They broke his neck. My
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  Speaker 1: son's nose looked like an s They actually just beat
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of them. And so when I saw that,
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  Speaker 1: I knew my son was gone. Then even if he
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  Speaker 1: did live, he would have been a vegetable. So once
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  Speaker 1: I got to the hospital, all the police officers were
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  Speaker 1: basically whisked out because I heard that the TBI had
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  Speaker 1: taken over the investigation and that was it. They spoke
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  Speaker 1: to us, asked a bunch of questions, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: something wasn't right. I just didn't understand why they stopped
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  Speaker 1: my son in the first place. You said that you
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  Speaker 1: thought from the initial time when they contacted you that
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to cover up. Why did you think that. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that initially as I started getting information
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  Speaker 1: and information was coming to me, because they made it
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  Speaker 1: seem like the stop in the start, the start, and
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  Speaker 1: the stop of the was at a certain location, when
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  Speaker 1: actually they were less than eighty feet from my home.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about what you saw. Now, I hate to
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  Speaker 1: bring this up, but I just have to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mtel. Yes, it's reminiscent of that. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen the video. I'm talking about what you saw when
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  Speaker 1: you went to the hospital. Oh, yes, yes, yes, that
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  Speaker 1: was That was terrible. Dad. You agree with him, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: most definitely, because I'm the one who took the picture.
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  Speaker 1: This circulated and I took the picture because he was
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  Speaker 1: in such a terrific condition. He shouldn't have been in
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  Speaker 1: that condition from pepper spray and tasty. He was never conscious.
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  Speaker 1: You said, you believe if he lived, he would have
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  Speaker 1: been a vegetable. Yes. Shocking to hear from the family
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  Speaker 1: and for them to be so articulate explaining what happened
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time calling for peace. I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, not only is the family an incredibly strong
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  Speaker 1: family that seems to be so unbelievable in the way
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  Speaker 1: they've been compassionate and also made it queer. They do
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  Speaker 1: not and violence. They want peace, to not be violent
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  Speaker 1: when this video's release. Be peaceful in your protests. They
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  Speaker 1: have made that clear. The mother saying it, she understands
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  Speaker 1: that the world is watching, and she says, if you
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  Speaker 1: care about me, and if you're with here, for here,
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  Speaker 1: with my kid, for my child, she said, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: read it again, I want to each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you to protest in peace. I don't want us
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  Speaker 1: burning up our cities, tearing up our streets, because that's
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  Speaker 1: not what my son stood for. And if you guys
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  Speaker 1: are here for me and Tyree, you will protest peacefully.
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  Speaker 1: What an amazing mother to understand the gravity of this moment,
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  Speaker 1: and an amazing mother to be able to understand how
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  Speaker 1: important it is that she says that to the world.
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  Speaker 1: And she didn't say just the city of Memphis where
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  Speaker 1: she is, She said to our cities, meaning around the country.
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  Speaker 1: The police chief has also come out and talked about
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  Speaker 1: what she saw on that video, preparing people for what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to see. She gave her first interview since
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  Speaker 1: the Nichols beating, and this is what she had to
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  Speaker 1: say about that video. When did you first learn about
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  Speaker 1: this incident? It was probably about four o'clock in the
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  Speaker 1: morning that previous the previous day, eight o'clock at night,
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  Speaker 1: nine o'clock. This incident occurred about four o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I learned of the incident, and it was just a
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  Speaker 1: strange summary of what occurred on the traffic stop, and
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  Speaker 1: I decided to go in the office and meet with
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  Speaker 1: the individuals that had information that I could take a
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  Speaker 1: look at it, even though at that time Tyree was
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital, but still because he had injuries that
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  Speaker 1: that I just didn't understand. It was incomprehensible to me.
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  Speaker 1: We came in the office and decided to take a
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  Speaker 1: look that Sunday morning, and it was alarming. That's when
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  Speaker 1: you Sunday mornings when you first saw the video salute
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  Speaker 1: right and then when you saw it, what was your reaction? Um?
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  Speaker 1: I was I was outraged. I was it was incomprehensible
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  Speaker 1: to me, it was unconscionable, and I felt that I
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  Speaker 1: needed to do something and do something quickly. Uh. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I've witnessed anything of that nature in my
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  Speaker 1: entire career. Really really that bad. It was that bad.
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to see then, Um, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see acts that defy humanity. You're going to see
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  Speaker 1: a disregard for life, UM, duty of care that we're
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  Speaker 1: all sworn to, and UM a level of physical interaction
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  Speaker 1: that is above and beyond what is required in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm sure that you know, as I said before,
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  Speaker 1: that individuals watching will feel what the family felt. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't, then you're not a human being. And
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  Speaker 1: we all are human beings. And I think there will
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  Speaker 1: be a measure of sadness as well. How long do
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  Speaker 1: these incidents go on? We heard from the district attorney
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and from the head of the TVI that there
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  Speaker 1: were two separate incidents, right, yes, How long do they
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  Speaker 1: go on? And when? When? What was the worst part
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  Speaker 1: of it? Because it has been said that the officers
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  Speaker 1: became charged, yes, during the second incident, that they got
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  Speaker 1: more rolled up, well from the very beginning. To me,
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  Speaker 1: they were rolled up, you know, I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: were as amped up as they were on the second
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  Speaker 1: at the second scene, but just the stop, the nature
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  Speaker 1: of the stop, very aggressive, loud, you know, um communication,
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  Speaker 1: and it was it just rose from there. It escalated
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  Speaker 1: from there. Um, mister Nichols was able to get away
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  Speaker 1: from these officers and um they found him again at
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  Speaker 1: another location, and at that point there was a there
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  Speaker 1: was an amount of aggression that is unexplainable. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in any instance where where you're apprehending someone, even in
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  Speaker 1: the worst situations when there is resistance, officers still have
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility to exercise care and regard for any individual
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  Speaker 1: that's in custody or they're attempting to apprehend, and they're
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  Speaker 1: trained to do that and to de escalate, And that's
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  Speaker 1: a piece I think that is in question, But I
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  Speaker 1: think the escalation was there from the officers before training
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  Speaker 1: even needed to come in. As it relates did the escalate,
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  Speaker 1: the escalation was already at a high level. The escalation
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  Speaker 1: was already at a high level. When you listen to
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  Speaker 1: not only the mother, but you listen to the police
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  Speaker 1: chief and you listen to the stepfather, what you hear
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  Speaker 1: here is is clearly this was personal for these officers involved.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a normal traffic stop and the way
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  Speaker 1: that they treated him, this was not normal. Tyree Nichol's stepfather,
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  Speaker 1: Rodney Wells, described the video of his son's arrest, saying
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  Speaker 1: one officer kicked him like he was kicking a football.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of times. They had this little like stick,
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  Speaker 1: this metal thing that they pull out. They pull it
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  Speaker 1: out like an antenna. I saw them pull that out
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  Speaker 1: and started beating my son with it, and I saw
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  Speaker 1: officers hitting on him. I saw officers kicking him well,
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  Speaker 1: as added that the officers did not render aid to
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  Speaker 1: his son. The most telling thing about the video to
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  Speaker 1: me was the fact that it was maybe ten officers
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  Speaker 1: on the scene and nobody tried to stop it, or
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  Speaker 1: even after they beat him and they propped him up,
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  Speaker 1: no one rendered aid to him whatsoever. The charges against
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  Speaker 1: these police officers show officers who beat Nichols quote caused
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  Speaker 1: his death and are responsible, the district attorney says. Shelby
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  Speaker 1: County District attorney said the charges his office brought against
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  Speaker 1: the former Memphis officers who beat Tyree Nichols show that
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  Speaker 1: they caused his death and are responsible for his death.
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney Moroy said that he wouldn't characterize the video
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  Speaker 1: of the incident that will be released later on Friday
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock Central or after, but add that anyone who
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  Speaker 1: had seen the video has realized relatively quickly that this
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  Speaker 1: needed to be followed up on, saying, quote, I assure
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  Speaker 1: you that once you see the video, I think people
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  Speaker 1: can draw their own conclusions, but I don't imagine there'll
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of perceived ambiguity, mulroy added. Tyree Nichols
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  Speaker 1: mother also calling for police reforms, saying, we don't care
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  Speaker 1: what color the officer is. We want bad officers taken
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  Speaker 1: off the force. I don't care what color police officer is,
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  Speaker 1: but by the accused officer being black, it hurt the
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  Speaker 1: black community, she added, referring to all the officers who've
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  Speaker 1: been fired were all African American. They have brought shame
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  Speaker 1: to their own families. They have brought shame to the
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  Speaker 1: black community. She said. These former officers have to show
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  Speaker 1: some compassion to people, and they have to learn that
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  Speaker 1: everyone is human and is human and everyone Wells also
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  Speaker 1: said that the Memphis Police Chief C. J. Davis is
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  Speaker 1: doing an quote excellent job and I feel she's moving
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  Speaker 1: things along. Benjamin Crump said that Memphis and we can
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Memphi and be proud of this statement
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  Speaker 1: has now given the country a blueprint of how to
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  Speaker 1: do things when something horrific like this happens with the transparency,
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  Speaker 1: with the quickness with a communication, and that is maybe
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  Speaker 1: the only positive thing that's come out of this. We're
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  Speaker 1: now hearing that other cities are preparing for protests ahead
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  Speaker 1: of today's expected release of the police video showing the
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  Speaker 1: beating of Tyree Nichols. We know that those five former
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  Speaker 1: officers have been charged with murder. The Nichols family and
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  Speaker 1: the White House are calling for peaceful demonstrations. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that the entire country listens to this, because this is
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly brave, heroic, god loving family that is asking
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  Speaker 1: and saying, do not burn cities down, do not riot,
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  Speaker 1: do not loose peacefully protest, Do not take this away
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  Speaker 1: from my son. He would not want this listen. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of unease in Memphis and in cities coast to
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  Speaker 1: coast this morning, as police prepared to release that traffic
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  Speaker 1: stop video tonight that led to the death of Tyree Nichols.
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  Speaker 1: The Nichols family has seen this video already, their lawyers
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  Speaker 1: saying it will show officers savagely beating Nichols for three minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and an assault they say looks like the infamous beating
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  Speaker 1: of Rodney King in nineteen ninety one. In fact, listen
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  Speaker 1: to how the police chief in Memphis describes it in
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  Speaker 1: this brand new interview with CNN this morning. I was
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  Speaker 1: it was incomprehensible to me, It was unconscionable, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt that I needed to do something, and do something quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've witnessed anything of that nature in
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  Speaker 1: my entire career. That chief then firing those five officers involved.
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  Speaker 1: We have learned this morning four of them have posted
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  Speaker 1: bond and are free this morning, though they are all
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  Speaker 1: charged here with second degree murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, official misconduct,
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  Speaker 1: and oppression. While each of the five individuals played a
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  Speaker 1: different role in the incident in question, the actions of
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  Speaker 1: all of them resulted in the death of Tyren Nichols,
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  Speaker 1: and they are all responsible. Nichols family gathering with others
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  Speaker 1: overnight for a candlelight vigil at a Memphis skate park.
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  Speaker 1: Nichols family and President Biden also both urging people who
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  Speaker 1: planned a protest to do so peacefully. The White House
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  Speaker 1: releasing this statement from the President, reading, in part I
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  Speaker 1: joined Tyree's family and calling for peaceful protest. Outrage is understandable,
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  Speaker 1: he says, but violence is never acceptable, going on to
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  Speaker 1: say it has no place in peaceful protest seeking justice.
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  Speaker 1: White House saying what they said obviously an important moment.
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  Speaker 1: What I know is this mother has shown a strength
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  Speaker 1: that I believe she probably only is getting from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And she's talked about her faith, and she's talked about
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  Speaker 1: she knows where her son is. I know that the
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  Speaker 1: city has gotten a lot of things right. And she
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  Speaker 1: said that the transparency, the quickness, the communication, I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it again, is probably the only good thing to come
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  Speaker 1: out of this. Benjamin Crump also coming out and slamming
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  Speaker 1: these police officers over the issue of de escalation. He
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  Speaker 1: had this to say on CNN this morning. Can I
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  Speaker 1: ask you something? She said, her son came here on
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  Speaker 1: a mission, and she doesn't hate anybody. She feels sorry
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  Speaker 1: for them doing the work that you do. Is there
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  Speaker 1: a lesson and that you said this is a blueprint,
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  Speaker 1: should be a blueprint around the country. So what is
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  Speaker 1: the mission? What will accomplish the mission that she believes
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  Speaker 1: that her son was sent to this earth for and
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  Speaker 1: taken too quickly. And the prayer that I believe Miss
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  Speaker 1: Wales is articulating is that this won't have to happen
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  Speaker 1: to other young black and brown children. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: to learn so many hashtags down them, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to keep talking to you on CNN week after
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  Speaker 1: every other week about yet another unwed black person has
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  Speaker 1: been killed by police and a highly controversial manner. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: this institutional police coaches that says it's okay to engage
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  Speaker 1: an excessive force against black and brown people will found
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  Speaker 1: and be dept with. We won't continue to try to
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  Speaker 1: say that, oh, it's training. They can d escalate just
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  Speaker 1: fine when it's white citizens. We see that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But it's when it's black and brown citizens. No matter
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  Speaker 1: if the police are black, Hispanic, or white, they seem
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  Speaker 1: to do the most dyned limit. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: the blueprint from now. You know, Memphis Police Department terminated
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  Speaker 1: them immediately, the DA fought charges within twenty days. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when it's not black officers, we want to see this
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  Speaker 1: same type of justice. You listened to Ben Crumped there
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  Speaker 1: slamming police brutality and also saying this is the blueprint
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  Speaker 1: and this will become the new standard. I am obviously
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  Speaker 1: concerned about my hometown, and I am concerned about the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the country. I am concerned by the reaction
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  Speaker 1: to the community. I am concerned by what we're all
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  Speaker 1: going to see. As the police chief said, you are
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  Speaker 1: going to see acts that defy humanity. That's what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see. She also said, we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: the right thing. She said she's never witnessed anything like
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  Speaker 1: this in her entire career. Now I'm joined live now
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  Speaker 1: by the Memphis Police Chief, C. J. Davis. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Chief for joining us. I really appreciated. Hi'm gonna wear
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  Speaker 1: my glasses so that could because I had very specific things.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the charges. These five
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  Speaker 1: officers have now been charged with second degree murder in
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  Speaker 1: the death of Tyree Nichols. What's your reaction to these
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  Speaker 1: very serious charges. Well, I expected serious charges, I really did. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: the charges that were placed, or at least the administrative
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  Speaker 1: charges were probably the most severe that I've seen in
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  Speaker 1: my career. But they were absolutely appropriate, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: that the next step would be in the hands of
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  Speaker 1: the DA's office, so I am not surprised. These were
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  Speaker 1: pretty extraordinary measures, I must say it, and all the
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  Speaker 1: times that I've been covering these types of incidents, to
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  Speaker 1: fire the officers, to charge them. So strictly, does that
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  Speaker 1: speak to what we're going to see on that videotape
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: when it is released after seven pm Eastern? Absolutely? I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: think that, you know, it also speaks to the fact that,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you know, over the last several years, we have all
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: talked about police legitimacy, you know, and police reform, and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I think it's really important that in instances like this,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: when they are serious, when they are that they do
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: arise to that level where persons constitutional rights have been violate,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: their civil rights have been violated, that we act and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we act swiftly. What did your first learn about this incident? Chief?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It was probably about four o'clock in the morning that
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: previous the previous day, eight o'clock at night, nine o'clock.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: This incident occurred about four o'clock in the morning. I
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: learned of the incident and it was just a strange
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: summary of what occurred on the traffic stop, and I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: decided to go in the office and meet with the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: individuals that had information that I could take a look
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: at it, even though at that time Tyree was in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the hospital, but still because he had injuries that that
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I just didn't understand. It was incomprehensible to me. We
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: came in the office and decided to take a look
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: that Sunday morning, and it was alarming. Members police chief
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: make it clear never witnessed anything like this, and she
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: knew something was wrong right away. I will say this
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: about Wells and Rodney Wells a stepfather, they are angels
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of this city. The fact that she says she feels
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: sorry for these police officers, what they've done to the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: black community, what they've done to themselves, what they have done,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: she said, still like a nightmare. I'm still trying to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: understand all of this and trying to wrap my head
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: around all this. It's still like a nightmare. The fact
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that the Memphis Police Chief says the department has still
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not been able to sustain reckless driving, to stop driving,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: stop off Tyree Nichols is also incredibly shocking. But she said,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and I'll leave you with this statement, and it's the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: one that I hope everyone remembers. The mother of Tyree
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Nichols said, I want each and every one of you
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to protest in peace. I don't want us burning up
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: our cities, tearing up our streets because that's not what
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: my son stood for. And if you guys are here
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: for me and Tyree, you will protest peacefully. Tyree Nichols
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: mother is an angel. God bless her and her family,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you back here tomorrow