the bigger picture of jack smith s case? we re going to get into all of that coming up? also this hour, belarus, russia, where exactly is yevgeny prigozhin? the mystery surrounding the fate of russia s wagner group deepened after the president of belarus in a rare news conference said he was still in his hometown of st. petersburg more than a week after the rebellion that shocked moscow and the world as wechlt. and long-time gop megadonors launching ads to try to prevent the former republican leader are from retaking the white house in 2024. we begin this hour with the former president and walt nauta, his aide, in court. after two delays, trump s co-defendant in the classified documents case finally arraigned in court a few hours ago, pleading not guilty nearly a month after his boss. he faces charges of obstructs the investigation into the retention of classified documents. it s been a whirlwind 24 hours. on wednesday authorities unsealing new portions of the warrant t
turner. it took over three years for five police officers to be indicted in the 2019 brutal beating of unarmed ronald greene in baton rouge, which, again, was captured on body cam video. that s it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence o donnell. i appreciate, it alex. we look on nights like this for any sense of a silver lining, any sense of progress. then there is something. but when you watch videos like this and you think, how much progress we have not made, it is disheartening. thank you for your reporting. we will see you next week. happy to share. heinous, reckless and inhumane. that is how the police chief in memphis described the video footage that was released tonight, showing the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and five police officers, who have been fired and charged with his murder. the 29 year old died from the injuries sustained into confrontations with police captured in roughly one hour of foot
now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence o donnell. i appreciate, it alex. we look on nights like this for any sense of a silver lining, any sense of progress. if accountability comes to people faster, then there is something. but when you watch videos like this and you think, how much progress we have not made, it is disheartening. thank you for your reporting. we will see you next week. happy to share. heinous, reckless and inhumane. that is how the police chief in memphis described the video footage that was released tonight, showing the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and five police officers, who have been fired and charged with his murder. the 29 year old died from the injuries sustained into confrontations with police captured in roughly one hour of footage from police body cam footage and neighborhood security camera footage. the incident happened on january the 7th, 8:30 pm at night. the footage does not capture the and i
analyst paul butler. you watch that video, pretty disturbing, and then hearing the officer there say stop or i m going to punch you in the face, and from our reporting understanding that she was, in fact, just filming the interaction between her husband and the officer? what s going on here? any justification for any of this force? not from what s on the video, yasmin. this woman s real crime seems to be what defense attorneys call contempt of cop. the officer is mad because she s recording their encounter. he tells the woman to get on the ground, even though he has already tackled her and thrown her to the ground. she doesn t appear to use force or threaten force. instead she says she s going to sue the officer, but he still says stop or you re going to get punched. so we ve seen versions of this sick movie before, like when those memphis cops told tyre nichols to stop resisting even though he was lying helpless on
deliberately sponsor them being out of shape, for them having pepper spray themselves in the face, like the keystone cops, but far deadlier. this was the worst version of contempt of cop. and so when you see people running from the police, they imagine, as this individual did, that you can get killed because a cop is bad at their job, they get angry, and they want to kill you in response. we have videotape evidence of exactly that. that is what we watched. and as you see, the nearly hours worth of footage for different angles on that website. that is exactly what you will see. i m actually appreciative, phillip atiba goff, that you are going into some of the details. because it s hard and a lot of people won t like to watch for versions of the same hour long stuff. but jelani cobb, the point that phillip atiba goff makes is interesting. at one point, you hear him say, you guys are really doing a lot right now. there is a get on the ground and you are seeing video of him he is