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Department employees who are relieved of duty. i know you cant say whether you expect to charge them as there is an ongoing investigation. how influential has the body cameras been in your decision-making process? >> well, i mean, obviously its a key source of information. both the body cam video, and the video from the pole cam, the static cam. we had remarkably good quality footage in this case. more so than most cases. but thats not all that were looking at. i want to emphasize that the proce...

For this particular officer. everybody on that scene needs to be accountable wearing a uniform, whether they were police, fire or emt, i see everybody as being complicit with this pattern and practice of failing to intervene and certainly violence. >> okay. so a couple of things. hemphills attorney says that he was at the first scene but not at the second scene. that second scene is the view that we saw from that pole cam. but you say that all of the officials, emts, the officers need to be held...

>> well, theres no justification for the use of force in this case. in fact, from the very beginning, the officers were acting in a manner that was inconsistent with any training that i am aware of. they began yelling at the individual, pulling him out of the car. if anything, mr. nichols was the person trying to de-escalate the situation. it was not the police officers. and after they pepper sprayed and tased him and he took off running, then it became very personal because they were upset and ...

Pictures. and as it turned out, it was video which captured some of the last moments of his life and also some of the worst moments of his life, not somebody talking, a silent video for some of that when you see friday the pole cam, but he was a guy that his mom said was a free spirit. and his friends said he didnt conform to what society sees a black man should be. he did not conform to any sort of stereotype, that he was his own man, and as one person put it, he was a gentleman. jessica? >> th...

Him in the face. i mean, this goes on minute after minute while officers keep his hands restrained behind his body. chief ramsey, we have had about 24 hours to absorb the horror of all of this. what are your thoughts? what lessons are you drawing from all of this? >> i havent seen anything at all, i didnt last night and still havent, that would justify the behavior of the officers at all. they were acting way outside of any training, policy, or values or anything associated with policing. so the...

One of our executive team members said, well, i can pull a video, chief, and we can take a look at it because we have a sky cop camera in that community. >> explain that to our viewers. thats a pole cam. >> we have a camera network throughout the city. and our camera network throughout the city is an operation through our real-time crime center on a regular basis. and there was a camera that was actually situated right over that intersection area. >> and you tapped into that camera. >> we were a...

It has been said there is over an hour. there is the pole cam, they said the skycam and there is body worn camera video. what are we -- and how is it going to be distributed? will you put it on social media or sending it to the media? how is this going to be distributed. >> actually, we plan to post it on a youtube link so that it could be accessible to just about anybody who wants to access that video. and well be pushing that out later on this evening. the video is broken into four different s...

Stray from going too much into characterizing in the video when there is a pending prosecution. but i could tell you this, you will see the same thing that the family was shown. it is a body cam from the first encounter. and then two body cams and a pole cam, a sky cop cam from the second encounter. everything altogether is a little bit over an hour. and although you wont see you know the initial traffic stop, you will see almost all of the first encounter as far as we know and then enough of th...

not the suspect whose name we will tell you and we will tell you what we know about him coming up. but the 71 people hes accused of attempting to kill. 12 who have died. we know only one so far by name, this woman, jessica ghawi, a journalist and blogger who also went by the name of jessica redfield. she narrowly escaped a shooting last month in toronto. she was 24 years old. ill talk to her brother shortly tonight in the hour ahead. shes the only fatality identified so far. we would t...