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hi, everyone. thanks so much for joining me in washington, d.c. i'm jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield today. a city and nation in shock. hours after memphis police released videos of the brutal killing of tyre nichols. the full videos released last night show five former memphis police officers repeatedly beating the 29-year-old. and i want to warn you. what we're about to show you is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. place are seen yanking him from the car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray ...

nichols. the full videos, released last night, show five former memphis police officers repeatedly beating the 29 year old, and i want to warn you, what you're about to watch is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. police are then seen yanking nichols from his car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray and batons. nichols, unarmed, cries out for his mother at one point. he died from his injuries three days later in the hospital, and those videos sparking largely peaceful protests all across the country. e...

For the next three-and-a-half minutes. some ten minutes into the video, a person who appears to be a paramedic finally engages with nichols. the u.s. department of justice has said it is conducting a federal civil rights investigation of tyre nichols' death. >> and that was boris sanchez reporting for us. i want to bring in cnn senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz. we now have these videos out for the public to see. what happens next? >> reporter: while the investigation obviously goes on, the d.a. telling us just because these five officers were charged does not mean that...

During the initial encounter after the stop, body cam video from an officer arriving at the scene shows that nichols sounded calm as the officer approaches the scene. an officer is yelling at tyre nichols -- >> officers pull him out of the car. nichols responds. >> i'm on the ground. >> reporter: officers yell at him to lie down and threaten to tase him. >> put your hands behind your back! >> you guys are doing a lotrigh now. >> lay down! >> reporter: nichols gets up and runs and the officers chase him. a different body cam video shows some of what happens when officers catch nichols on a neig...

>> reporter: tyre nichols screamed for his mother as memphis police officers struck him multiple times, including in the face while his hands were restrained. the city on friday night released body camera and surveillance video of the january 7 traffic stop and beating that led to the 29 year old's death in the hospital three days later. >> you're going to see a disregard for life. >> reporter: after officers pulled nichols over and pulled him out of his car, a struggle ensued and he ran away. minutes later officers would catch up with him and hit him numerous times, video shows. during the in...