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new statement from the representative desmon, jr., police officers charged in the death of tyri nichols, mills attorney is reaching out to the public and asking them not to pass judgment on his client s involvement in beating. in new statement, quote, we continue to urge caution in judging desmon mills actions, whether he committed the crimes charged will be answered with the resulting no. the statement, of course, comes less than 24 hours after the country got a chance to view horrific body cam video of memphis police officers relentlessly beating nichols. the video shows officers aggressively yank nichols out of his vehicles as the 29-year-old says he didn t anything. he is thrown to the grown while officers continue to yell at him. a few moments later you see place taze nichols as he managed to escape and run away and some of the officers on scene pursue him you can see one officer who remain behind him wish physical harm on nichols. stomp his ass. the officer is ....
Like he s a football. one officer punches him on the face and ano swats nichols we he waits more than 20 minutes to get medical attention. meantime some of the officers who have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder have been saying nichols had his hand in one of their arms. brother, you re good. almost hit me. he reached for martins gun. had his hand on my gun. now it s important to know during confrontation we never hear any of the officers that nichols grabbed the gun nor do we see that happen on body cam video. as for the other officer who is were out on the scene, you heard from memphis officials and county officials who say some of ....
Reporter: the shooting started at a termination meeting where he was fired. five victims range from human resources intern, human resources manager. the plant manager, a mold operator at the plant and a stock room attendant. police say martins gun was a 40 caliber smith and wesson handgun. multiple magazines were found spent at the shooting scene. the shooting, most of the gunfire lasted only five minutes. but the whole shooting route for long. of time because martin retreated back inside of this 30,000 square-foot plant and simply took the responding officers a while to find him and confront him. of the officers who were shot, or injured none were killed. they are either listed in stable condition, released from the hospital or in the process of being released today. leland?leland: mike tobin, thank you. a little perspective here, this marks the second mass shooting of 2019. the eighth in the last 12 ....