the topic that you type in. so i type didn t tyre nichols s name, and underneath that was tyre nichols criminal record. tyre nichols that s video. tyre nichols guilt. and so the implication that we are still in a place where the person who has suffered from police violence, the person who is now dead after a traffic stop, would be guilty for his own murder is a very sad but relevant reminder that we are going to be in the situation for a while, because society still refuses to see what we are really dealing with. brittani, let s talk about human nature. then you could get tyre s law on the books, the fact that you have to put anything like that as a law is disgusting to me. the idea that you have for somebody under the law to have to intervene when fellow officer is doing something illegal, but there are rules. policies, procedures, and all these departments. i m having this conversation over an over again this morning because it doesn t make sense to me. you keep on trying to pass l
off running before police tackled him at a second location. this video that you re seeing now shows. that is taken from a mounted security camera, and so there s no audio, but you can clearly see the officers crowding around tyre nichols, beating him. one of them even appears to have a baton. and then the police start pepper spraying him, and he cries. allowed, repeatedly, for his mother, who just lives yards nearby. give me your hand! spray it again! mom! mom! [screaming] mom? mom! [screaming] before last
you know antonia, there may be some very unanswered questions, but the one thing that is very clear is that there was an unjustified loss of life, and that is tyre nichols. thank you so much for letting us know what is happening in memphis. we will turn to monica alba who is there for us at the white house. katie, the president was a very engaged on this all day yesterday, bracing for the release of the video, which he did watch, hauling the beating that led to tyre nichols s death horrific and saying that the footage will quote leave people justifiably outrage. he echoed the nichols families call for calm and memphis and other major cities, pleading with protesters not to resort to violence or destruction. writing a statement overnight, violence is never acceptable, it is illegal and destructive. earlier in the day, the president did speak by phone with mr. nichols mother and stepfather, in which he said that there are no words to describe the heart break and grief of losing a bel
force that is commensurate with the type of criminal activity occurring in some of these areas. my simple response to that is, if we focus on education, if we focus on strengthening families, if we focus on things that are going to empower people to have the resources that they need, then you really would not need the type of police forces that we need in many of these places. it so i think our direction is oftentimes on the wrong thing, katie. basil, i have less than a minute, but i have to ask. you are teaching kids, they re in the twenties, they re definitely kids in my opinion, but you teaching kids. how do they have hope? especially those that are young black man. how do they have hope that they re not going to be the next tyre nichols? we talk to each other, in fact. a number of people that i talk to that of questions about how to respond and situations, and isolated, them anita survived the moment. whether it s obeying police commands, whatever you do to survive the moment,
and that s been over 20 years, and it is still not done. this is not challenge, but the problem is that we still have african americans and hispanics being killed under very questionable circumstances, and one of the biggest is the pretense of arrest which we have here, and that is the claim that he was reckless and probably was not. and that was pretext. john, i have less than a minute, and i did want to quickly ask you this question. let s talk about progress. we have body cams. we have these things that didn t exist back, ubiquitous all phones, everyone has, one towards floyd s case was made because there were cell phones there. but they did this to tyre nichols on a video knowing that they had the body cams, knowing that the scope was located on the pole. how do you make those changes. you talk about the local level making some changes, but you have to break the culture somehow. is it enough of a deterrent