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Duty. do we know what role those people may have played in this? >> two officers were named as having been relieved of duty. it is the locals way of saying theyre on administrative leave. these officers were put on administrative leave weeks ago and we are just learning about them this week. we asked the memphis police department why. they didnt directly respond to the question but did say theyre committed to transparency in a statement and told us we should expect more personnel actions in the ...

As the six officers suspended the violent encounter. says the department was investigated for these entertainers are gilles nichols, -- never present at the second, seen or officers calista nichols, adding that his client is cooperating with officials, in this investigation and quote. hemphill is not been charged for any crimes, fired three medical technicians that they said violated numerous policies, and failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of tyre nichols, after officers called th...

The initial call they got that there was an individual who had been pepper sprayed, and that then they spoke to an officer on the scene and really just relied on those two bits of information. the initial call about a pepper spray and then what they were told by an officer at the scene. instead of doing their own assessment of tyre nichols. so they first got the call and based on the timeline we have from the fire department, they responded initially to that first intersection where the initial ...

Really felt like this was in evidence of this police department not being as transparent as they had promised to be up until this point. they feel like things should have moved quicker. they feel like more audio recordings should be out and more information, more names should be available to the public. in terms of the fired employees, those three, two of them are emts, one was the driver that night. according to the fire chief for the memphis fire department, they violated a number of departmen...

A 17-minute delay, and even then according to a statement from memphis fire department, nichols was only treated for the initial reason the emts were called, having been pepper sprayed, not the numerous other injuries he sustained in the brutal beating captured on tape. it all raises the painful question, if in those critical minutes the emts had followed the very policies and protocols investigators say they broke, would it have saved nichols live? unfortunately, we have been here before. as th...

Not going to play for you tonight, because im sure you have all seen some of those videos on this network. another networks, on social media. if you havent, you can go watch it somewhere, you can go see for yourself tyre nichols, an unarmed fedex worker weighing 140 pounds, getting pepper sprayed, taser, punched, kicked, and repeatedly hit with a baton let multiple police officers. i, for, 1 am fed up with having to play videos of black men being beaten by police, being assaulted on tape to prov...

Im not gonna played for you because im sure youve already seen some of those videos on this network. another networks, on social media. and if you havent, watch it somewhere. you can go supercell for. tyre nichols, this unarmed fedex worker. men weighed 140 pounds, getting pepper sprayed, taser, punched, kick, and repeatedly hit with the button. by multiple police officers. but i for 1 am fed up with having to play videos of black men being beaten by police. being assaulted on tape to prove thei...

Of tyre nichols released a statement said that some of the questions remained is going to be required on what the police officer saw when he arrived at the scene, and quote, he was pepper sprayed, and whether desmonds actions crossed line. and so joining us is todd axle, the former chief of police there at st. paul, and so, thank you for joining us. and so you are saying that this should be about individual action, and all five officers who have been fired have been charged with second-degree mu...

Devolved so quickly into essentially an often lawful free-for-all, savage pummeling where he is remarkably -- hes saying, guys, youre doing so much, whats going on? policing 101 with respect is you must give clear and specific commands. its literally hellish. hes getting it from every direction. then hes getting pepper-sprayed and getting tased. he doesnt know whats going on. they stand him up to absolutely deliver crushing blows. so the whole thing is not simply brutal but also complete bedlam ...

Face charges as well. the video shows officers participating in a savage beating of nichols where he is kicked, punched, pepper sprayed and struck with a baton time as he is left seemingly defenseless. you see other officers show up on scene and just stand around as the bloody nichols is left to wait more than 20 minutes for medical attention. at least two memphis fire department employees and two shelby county sheriffs deputies have been relieved of their duties pending an internal investigatio...