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Body cameras, i have yet to hear back from them. but im also expecting to hear more from the family when they speak about this wrongful-death lawsuit that they are expected to file. joining us is retired los angeles police sergeant cheryl dorsey. sergeant dorsey, thank you so much for being with us. whats your reaction to learning about this, a double amputee shot and killed by police. was this excessive force? what is warranted as the next step? >> well, certainly the optics are bad. but as a...

Standardized procedure published inside the department that tells you when you are supposed to do it. generally the rule is on the way to a police event. some place where you are going to be interacting with the public. unless there is a real compelling legal or reason not to do it like for instance interviewing the victim of a sex crime you are supposed to put it on. in this case the first body cam that we have seen comes from officer hemphill running up on the scene as one of the other cops is...

Leadership has moved forward with firing these officers. i was also told when they file an incident report they should have put in the report what they did every time they escalated the situation. when they started using their hands, when they started using the taser, when they started using the baton. and these are things we hope to see when they finally release the report that we could go through and see what the initial incident report said hours after this beating happened. erin. >> ryan, th...

Action, as we saw in the video. tyre nichols body would stay on scene for almost 20 minutes for a stretcher arrived. and as a result of the inaction by these emts, they have now been fired. also today, anderson, were learning that a sixth and seventh police officer with the memphis police department is now on leave. they are part of this investigation, as you mentioned. the sixth officer because of that taser that he used. he is under investigation. and now a seventh officer is under investigati...

Memphis police department since 2018, and we confirm that one of the videos we saw last week released by the city of memphis was his body camera. in this video that were about to show you, which we should warn you is graphic, you could hear officer hemphill deploy his ta taser. tyre nichols ran away from the first incident. listen to what he had to say about what he hopes happens when officers eventually catch up with nichols. >> southbound. >> they found him. >> got him. >> huh? >> got him. >> ...

>> hemphill is accused of using his taser prior to tyre nichols being beaten by the five other officers that a since been terminated and charged for the five officers are shown to be punching, kicking, and hitting nichols in the video shows some of the officers talking among themselves after the beating where the sixth officer is then named. >> [indiscernible] >> two shelby county deputies are currently suspended without pay as their actions are looked at. the fire department has announced that ...

With the nypd. john, first of all, whats your reaction to the firefighters getting fired, two others officers have been put on leave, including one of them who said "i hope they stomp his ass" after he ran. what is that officers liability? >> so this is the triage piece, which is theyve kind of separated the first wave of who is going to be handled in serious criminal charges. not that the rest of these people arent going to be looked at for criminal charges. but this is pretty much the administ...

Three fire department personnel have been fired for not following policies and protocols. more from nick valencia. >> reporter: seven memphis police officers have now been relieved of duty in the tyre nichols investigation, including the officer wearing that body camera, identify by memphis police as officer preston hemphill. hemphill can be seen firing his taser at nichols following the initial traffic stop on january 7th after nichols takes off running with other officers chasing him, hemphill...

>> we just saw several videos. we saw a white officer who is on the scene as well. we try to look and see what happened. when you see him holding a taser and brandishing the pepper spray, in one officers i. that is a question everyone is asking now. why wasnt this officer included. >> office police also disbanded the scorpion unit that was responsible for kyrie nicholss death. it was launched with great fanfare, saturating the cities crime hotspots and the homicide rate was on the rise in 2021. ...

Improving professionalism in policing, also cnn chief law enforcement analyst, john miller, with the nypd. john, first of all whats your reaction to the firefighters, getting fired, two other officers been put on, leave including one of them who said i hope they stop possess. what is that offices liability serious criminal charges. not for the rest of these peoples are gonna be looked at for criminal charges. this is the ministry of portion, the firefighters are standing, by one summer was serio...