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politicsnation. tonight s lead, some justice, but not enough. right now all five of the former memphis police officers whose encounter with motorist tyre nichols, ultimately ended his death three weeks ago are facing potentially life-changing punishment themselves. all five now facing second degree murder charges in addition to several others. two deputies that arrived after the police beating of nichols have now been relieved of duty pending investigation. at the county prosecutor is not ruling out additional charges. as tonight attorneys for two of the former officers, desmond mills and desmond mills junior and emmett martin the third, say their clients plan to plead not guilty. we are also getting word of this afternoon that the so-called scorpion special police unit they were part of has been disbanded. also tonight, the white house is balancing the message of sympathy for the nichols s family and community with calls for calm on the streets of memphis where demonst ....
Sympathy for the nichols s family and community with calls for calm on the streets of memphis where demonstrators are still reacting to the police body cam footage released by the city late last night. footage that i will continue to caution our viewers is disturbing, showing at least some of the events, the traffic stop, the foot pursuit, and the violent arrest that sent nichols to the hospital where he died three days later. i have the solemn on our, as head of national action network, of eulogizing nichols next week in memphis. and that is where we begin tonight. joining me now, is rowvaughn wells, tyre s mother. rodney, wells his stepfather. and representing the family, civil rights attorney and the attorney general of black america, then crumb. attorney crumb, mr., wells mrs., wells we appreciate you joining us tonight. at this very difficult time. ....
Trauma, i guess would be one word, to just see this happen to your sister. our family really appreciates everything from you all that you are doing to support us and the positive feedback that we re getting. we are just really, really appreciative of it because, like you said, we re still in shock and we just really are in a loss right now. can you please tell reverend go ahead, attorney crumb. i m out of time but go ahead. go ahead. can you tell him what you told the state attorney about how offensive this is? yes, and i also told her tell him. that, you know, if they haven t watched the video they should because they need to put their family member in the place of our loved one and then make a decision. wow. that s a real challenge. well, we don t prejudge a case, but we clearly are not going to let them not investigate this. ....
more from the moment she was found unconscious in the bathtub. ann romney responding to a democratic strategist who said this about her. his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. the mother of five is fuming over that comment. hearing a cry from the morgue? they are calling her the miracle baby. a newborn baby found alive at the morgue 12 hours after being declared stillborn. that is a crazy story. stay tuned for that. actually nailed into a coffin. that s incredible. just incredible. one minute past 5:00 on the east coast. george zimmerman waking up behind bars this morning. the man who shot 17-year-old trayvon martin is now charged with second degree murder. zimmerman turned himself in to police yesterday, his arrest coming after weeks of protest in florida and right across the country, demanding justice for trayvon. a special prosecutor says none of that went into her decision to charge zimmerman. let me emphasize that we do not prosec ....