now what he deserves justice. justice for a beautiful life taken far too soon. our thoughts tonight, i will terry s family, and this community. during this unthinkable, awful time. and on that note, i wish you all a safe night. hug your kids, from all of our family, excuse, me kind of get right. from all of our colleagues, across the networks of nbc news. when nbc family. thanks for staying up late with me. a really rough night. we ll see you at the end of monday. end o monday tire nicholas wendte nine years old. his family, and friends, remember me as a great kid and a beautiful soul. he was energetic, and outgoing, he was even goofy. they had a four-year-old son and he worked the second shift at fedex returning to his mother s house briefly every night at 7 pm for us late day lunch break. tyrannically s loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm, which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding. tyrannical s family says he was pretty good. that was
that culture. quit internalizing it and do your job. we reflect the community that you came from, and do it with some integrity. you can do. it granted hansen, janai nelson, my great thanks for you for joining us tonight. that s all in for this week. alex wagner starts tonight. good evening,. alex thanks chris, thank you for joining us this evening. tyre nichols as 29 years. old his family and friends remember him as a great kid, and a beautiful soul. he was energetic an outgoing. he was even goofing. he had a four-year-old son. he worked the second ships, returning to his mother s house briefly at 7 pm for his late day lunch break. tyre nichols loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding, tyre nichols family says that he was pretty good. that was his passion, he s been skating since he was six years old. when he left around to 3:00, he was on his way to because my son every night and look at the su
Tonight, thousands pay tribute as george floyd comes home to houston. Joe biden among them. Also tonight, the new video just released from new mexico. A knee to the neck and tonight, charges of manslaughter. Here in houston, many walking in the stifling heat to line up for hours, then filing past George Floyds casket. Mourners wearing masks. George floyd was killed two weeks ago today, an officer with his knee on floyds neck for 8 minutes, 46 seconds. Former Vice President joe biden came to houston today. The image of him with George Floyds little girl. Paying his respects to the floyd family. And the family speaking just moments ago. Also tonight, the former officer now charged with Second Degree murder, Derek Chauvin, wearing an Orange Jumpsuit for his First Court Appearance today. Prosecutors saying he kept his
knee on floyds neck while he went limp and eventually lifeless. And the breaking headline as we come on the air tonight. The new video from new mexico now. The officer with h
they haven t been in the department for more than five years. we need to question how malik those units really are. the other thing, that we know that we need to think, about is a police officers who train these guys, as soon as they, gabba feel training officers tend to be sort of the cops, koch they tend to be guys, not particular desired position, and but in particularly crap departments, we ve seen this in the l.a. sheriff s department for example. people are reputed to those positions, those training positions, they tend to be a lot of disciplinary and problems of their. owen because there s this effort to indoctrinate the recruits early on. sort of the rare fame oriented koch. you take that, they get this kind of training and immediately put them in one of these units, and tell them there early, they have some kind of special privileges. and on the other department, the officers need to follow, it
task task force in 2020. to look at that. recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining public safety officers. we wanted to make, certainly took a deep, dive we took six months to really look into. and i was really again, how it rage because of the work that happened diana, the work that was being done, we have a new police chief, we have a new dna, and as i, said that really as an elective body, we ve been working toward making certain that the people center. that the officers are trained, that we are, community policing and we re putting funds behind those efforts. and to see this, see those officers just coming in and total disregard for the work that s been done. look bothered me, was the fact that they were new to the