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The family of the 26-year-old shot and killed by an Orlando police officer will be joined by civil rights attorney Ben Crumb on Saturday, calling for answers in the death of their loved one.
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>> in the city that dr. king lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death. >> reporter: both harris and sharpton calling on congress to pass the george floyd justice in policing act, which calls for comprehensive police reform. harris saying president biden will sign it. >> why do we want to see that act passed? because then you'll have to think twice before you beat tyre nichols. >> reporter: attorney ben crumb says representative sheila jackson lee will reintroduce the bill after the state of the union and will include a tyre nichols duty to intervene clause. today, right here at the church, vice president harris hand-delivered a letter to the parents of tyre nichols from president biden. in it, he writes, "their love for tyre will be the source for
them. in this case, what new republican majority is struggling to do is keep their own members in line. so far, we have three republicans who said they won't go along with the leadership on this. and they are ken buck of colorado and also nancy mace and victoria sparks. it looks like they can maybe only lose one more republican if that. otherwise, this effort to remove her could fail. >> dan yasha, let's talk about. this did you this powerful interview. you started your show yesterday with ben crumb, the attorney rep representing tyre nichols's family. he said it's finally time to see justice for george floyd act passed. dick durbin also called on congress to restart police negotiation -- reform negotiations. jim jordan said, i believe it was on fox, no law will change what happened. do you get the sense in washington that any sort of
a lot of their territory. >> natasha bertrand reporting from washington, thank you. a call for justice in memphis, tennessee over the death of tyre nichols. at a city council meeting, tensions running high demanding for the release of the body camera video. he was beaten by officers for three minutes on january 7th after they stopped him for reckless driving. shimon prokupecz is live in memphis this morning with more. shimon, good morning. preliminary results of an autopsy were released. what are we learning now? >> reporter: the autopsy was done at the request of the family. the family did their own independent autopsy. and what they found, according to their attorney ben crumb, was that tyre nichols died from severe bleeding as a result of a beating. don, i want to take you out here to the scene. this is where it all started. this is the intersection that
district attorney here. we're waiting to hear more from him. he says the video will come out once his investigation is complete. once they're done interviewing witnesses. he said the reason they don't want to release is because they don't want to in any way, sway witness testimony if they see this video, they may change their testimony and that is the reason why this video has not been released. but i can tell you, community members certainly are not buying that. they want the information. they want the transparency that they certainly feel they're not getting. so now, don, we wait for the da and ultimately what he decides in terms of charges for these officers. >> and shimon will be following this for us. thank you very much. more classified documents have been discovered. now these at the home of former vice president mike pence. not in wilmington, delaware but in caramel, indiana where his home is. an attorney for the former vice president discovering about 12 classified documents in the home. they were immediately turned
she is 14 weeks pregnant and planning to travel out of state to get this abortion done. her attorney ben crumb telling us she may be the first in louisiana to experience this, but she certainly won't be the last. whit? >> maria, thank you. a somber anniversary today. one year ago, 13 u.s. service member ws were kill in the afghanistan during the chaotic withdrawal after 20 year of war. a suicide bomber struck at the airport gate. more than 100 civilians were also killed. president biden today saying he is praying for the families and loved ones who lost a piece of their soul. we turn now to the war in ukraine, and tonight the growing threat of a nuclear disaster. the head of the country's nuclear agency sounding the alarm as fires burn near europe's largest nuclear plant. that official telling abc's britt clennett in an exclusive interview just how close the plant is to a catastrophe. >> reporter: tonight, the head of ukraine's nuclear agency
turned up dead. how many black people are going to go missing and turn up dead in these suspicious manners until they say there's something we have to do to pay more attention to black people who go missing, like we do our white brothers and sisters. >> ben, we'll be following both of these cases. please come back and update us. thank you so much. >> thank you, don. >> so covid is the leading cause of death among police officers. so why are so many officers refusing to get the shot? we'll look into that next. resor. one of the many reasons you're with amex platinum. you could email an urgent question to lisa in marketing. and a follow up. and a “did you see my email?” text. orrrr... you could see her status in slack. and give lisa a break while you find someone online who can help. slack. where the future works. of death among police officers.