jonathan, always great to have you. first of all, what was your reaction to seeing what we saw on video? well, good morning. this is hard to say, but the nation had a front row seat last night to a killing. i mean we watched at the edge of our seat the absolute abject failure by these police officers, and the consequence of that failure obviously is this travelic loss of life, and more broadly, it further undermines police legitimacy across the country. this is not a memphis issue. this is a national issue. so there s a lot of consequences to what we witnessed last night, and the police action that i saw in those videos was horrific. it is the worst i have ever seen or heard from my professional experience in law enforcement and now as a law enforcement
that filters back in. yes, we re talking, amara, windchills of minus 20 to minus 40 degrees. yeah, that s cold. i know how that feels though. i feel like once you get past zero degrees, to me it s all bone-chilling bad. ahead next hour, we re live in memphis as the city and the nation reacts to the videos showing the fatal beating of tyre nichols by memphis police officers, growing questions about the timeline and what happened leading up to the incident. that is next. but eventually, it will remind you. when it does, aspen dentalal is here for you. we offer the custom dental treatments y you need, all under one roroof, right nearby. so we can bring more life to your smile. and more smile toto your life. affordably. new patients without insurance can get a free complete exam and x-rays, and 20 percent off treatment plans. schedule your appointment today.
what stood out to you? good morning. like others, i had a huge amount of angst. chief davis and i came up through the department in atlanta together. to see how she was processing it gave me an indication of how bad this was going to be. i was disgusted. disgusted and appalled, and i just it was one of those moments that s largely indescribable. the memphis police chief as you mentioned, chief davis, said that as part of the investigation, they ll take a deeper dive into the background of these officers f they had proovgs arrests, if there s camera footage of other incidents that may have occurred. you believe that this is probably not the first time that some of these officers were involved in abuse. yes. i mean unfortunately these types of not with these outcomes
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning weekend. i m boris sanchez live in memphis, tennessee, a city that s still processing the horror caught on camera, the horrific beating of tyre nichols at the hands of police. good morning to you, boris. i m amara walker here in atlanta. that encounter from start to finish, the video was released last night, giving the public its first glimpse into what happened on that night. the four clips are each taken from different per specktives, but they all show a deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police officers earlier this month. the images are graphic, disturbing and heartbreaking, but they re critical to understanding the gravity of what happened. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground.
being as tragic as this, but these types of behaviors are not unique to memphis. typically i what you ll find is there are other acts that clearly are violating at a minimum policy and/or law, and so i think that it is something that we will start to see other things surface, but it also goes to one of the things that i know chief davis does as other chiefs do around the country is constantly impress upon supervisory staff to use the body worn cameras as a tool, as a behavior modifier, a training tool, and there s this tendency in law enforcement to go to the body camera in response to an incident, when the reality is you have to be auditing performance of your employees on a regular basis so that you can get ahead of behaviors that are not consistent with the law. and to your point about body cams, i think a lot of people were asking this question. these officers are very aware