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good afternoon. i'm peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we're expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we'll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family h...

aggravated kidnapping. we are awaiting an update from the shelby county district attorney that is set to begin soon. we're also awaiting the release of video taken during that traffic stop that ended in a violent confrontation between nichols and the officers. the family of nichols have seen that video and nichols died in the hospital after being beaten for three minutes, he died in the hospital three days later. joining me from memphis is antonia hylton. and the lawyers for the nichols family have compared this body cam footage to the beating of rodney king. what more can you tell u...

People living here. i spoke to one police officer here in memphis, who himself was emotional about all of this and how horrific it is going to be process. so the one piece that people are grateful for is that the police chief, who she's relatively new here, has, in their view, stepped up, communicated clearly, acted really swiftly, and that these charges represent what the community thinks these officers deserve, katy. >> the traffic stop happened on january 7th. he died three days later. it has been building out there. for anybody who might not be familiar with the details of this case, can y...

So this community is going to hear this news that nbc news ask others have confirmed that these five officers are in custody and facing criminal charges. and we also understand that while we're going to hear more about this at 2:00 p.m. local time, 3:00 p.m. eastern presser, that the the video we're likely going to get tomorrow. people here are grateful for this. while this is incredibly painful, it touches on all of the stories that you and i have covered many times of the lack of trust between communities, particularly black communities and lis. there's a recognition here that the police dep...