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murdaugh. good morning, ever. it is saturday, january 28th. im amara walker. >> good morning, amara. im boris sanchez coming to you live from memphis, tennessee, where this morning the city is still reeling from the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of five, now former memphis police officers. the full video of that beating was released to the public last night and it is extremely difficult to watch. >> absolutely. and as you would imagine, that video, the series of videos ...

john berman here in for anderson. take a look. there they are. both back when they wore memphis police department uniforms, and now in their booking photos. justin smith, emmett martin iii, desmond mills jr., demetrius haley all five now ex-cops charged today with killing tyre nichols, who died three days after a traffic stop and violent arrest on the 7th of this month. all five facing identical counts, official oppression, unauthorized exercise of official power, aggravated kidnapping...

disgraced your own families when you did this. but you know what, im going to pay for you and your families because at the end of the day this shouldnt have happened. this just shouldnt have happened. and we want justice for my son. justice for my son. >> justice for tyre. >> >> justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> i just want to thank everybody again for coming. i dont have -- i have a lot of words that i want to say but theyre just not c...

hello, thank you for joining us today. im abby phillip in washington. a major announcement is coming two ours from now in memphis, tennessee, the shelby county district attorney will be giving an update on the tyre nichols investigation. tyre nichols died three days after a violent confrontation with police and a source tells cnn that charges will be announced today. weve now learned at least one of the former officers involved in the nichols arrest has been indicted and thats accordin...

The country. while most of the protests were peaceful, nichols death compounded feels of frustration and anger. new york city mayor eric adams is a former police officer. >> as someone who spent decades fighting for police diversity and against police abuse, i feel betrayed by these officers. >> reporter: police departments across the country are still trying to recover from the death of george floyd and the perception that police are too quick to resort to excessive force and arent held account...

Incident than bias is. another factor might be group think. in your experience working in police departments, is group think a marriage issue within the force when someone witnesses someone else escalating and then they escalate? do you get the sense that that contributed to what we saw? >> its absolutely a contributing factor. i dont take race out of the issue, by the way. i refer to it as a wolfpack mentality. we see this at the end of a foot pursuit. officers are putting in work, thats what t...

And thats not anything that im saying thats been withheld from us. but we dont know yet. we know that the police have said that this was a traffic stop. but we dont know more than that. and quite frankly, i have to tell you, right now, i dont know that its a justification that theyre saying it was traffic stop. because we know that the saturation and suppression units do use a pretext to stop in order to carry out this wolf gang-like mentality, this wolfpack mentality of policing. >> you have no...

With you because we heard from the family over the course of the last hour, a clear determination that they dont want their sons death to be in vain and what they are asking for now is for accountability from this police department and the disbandment of a unit that seemed to have been involved in this stop. theyre called the scorpion unit. they are saying these units are responsible for brutality, for a wolfpack mentality. whats your reaction to that? >> well, first of all, it was very powerful...

Charged with murder in the second degree. i believe well see an upgrade as to the charges. you have to give the prosecutors more time to do more investigation and also got to see which one of these five officers are going to flip and thats if the prosecutor wants they to flip. if there is sufficient evidence in terms of video we dont need the cooperation from any of the five. >> sergeant dorsey, your reaction to these murder charges, kidnapping charges, aggravated assault charges as well coming ...