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♪ >> well breaking now a sixth police officer has been fired in the wake of violence and death of tyre nichols preston hemp if he would was fired after a thorough review found he violated multiple department policies including personal conduct and truthfulness. the department says he is under investigation for the initial traffic stop and the use of his taser. >> meantime first up in tonights could crime round up two men wanted for opening fire outside a takeout restaurant in philadelphia. the...

His termination? >> we know that there had been five officers fired, and then we have these two other officers that were kind of in limbo, on paid administrative leave, still investigating, and now we know he is joining those other officers, hemp hill now, being fired and now being looked at for these departmental policy violations and there is a long, long list of violations here, personal conduct, truthfulness, and thats one that i really want to point out here, because we expect our police of...

With the department since 2018. he was, and im quoting, in their statement, here departmental charged and terminated for violating at least five different department policies. -- according to this spokes person includes personal conduct, truthfulness, as well as violations related to the regulation of use of his taser. as you said, from what we understand what was written in the initial police report from that night -- memphis leap -- the deploy his taser at that first scene. he was relieved of ...

When we talk about the police officers, we now have six memphis police officers who have been fired, and that includes this officer hemphill who is now facing violations of company policy, department policy. personal conduct. truthfulness. and questions about how he used his taser. and this is significant in this case, because we know that the police report, what the officer said happened, and what we saw in that awful video, did not line up, did not match. but his lawyer had this to say, take a...

Captured on camera for multiple angles including body camera footage and security footage nearby as well as from cell phone footage. a conflict ensues. you hear the officer telling lyoya to let go of his taser. the defense claims that he had exclusive control, they believe exclusive control, how they phrase it, of the taser and the officer fires a single shot. lyoya died from a gunshot wound, which was to the head. his family has filed a federal lawsuit in this case as well. and you can see the ...

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Officers weve since learned about. one of whom continues to be unnamed. the city hasnt given reporters of the family information about who this officer is, whether history in the department might look like. the other has been identified as a white officer named preston hemphill, who people whove seen the video would recognizes personally brandishes a taser and tyre nichols and recommends that his colleagues shes after him and stop him. at this point, he has been relieved of duty but he hasnt fac...

Asking for that we still havent gotten. i think its important that we have the ultimate transparency because if youre willing to beat someone in public, if youre willing to tase someone and incite violence on them in public, if youre willing to stand around and not render aid and render care in public, then you need to be out in the public as well. we need to know exactly who you are because youre a danger to the public. >> reporter: that woman, amber sherman is arguably one of the biggest reaso...

Car at the first intersection and at no point in the video that has been released so far did we see tyre nichols appear to reach for any officers gun. the report then goes on to say that a chemical agent was deployed and a taser, but nichols pulled the taser probes out and ran away. we do see that happen in the video that has been released from that night. this report, again, it is unofficial, but the d.a. for this county says it matches the descriptions, the accounts they have in their possessi...

I dont know if it was a malfunction on the taser. did they deploy the two cartridges that were contained and missed mr. lowe? or did they strike him and just have no effect? i dont know what that means. so, did they try to use pepper spray? did they have pepper spray? did they try to get cover and concealment if they felt threatened that he might throw the knife. we see him only really fleeing. we see his back to the officers. so, i dont see any imminent threat. and thats the only time an office...