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More fall in the wake of the brutal beating by memphis police officers. like today, the city firebombed not-so-termination of three personnel. , tully, empties and lieutenant who drove them to the scene. also tonight, the police department revealed that a six, that a seventh officer had been, quote, relieved duty. as you know, i bet already been fired and charged with second degree murder. their specialized scorpion unit is now disbanded, and there could be more charges, and administrative changes to come. we talk about that snow to the local district attorney, also, our legal team on the pote...

Here. there is a first-degree murder statute in tennessee that is not charged here, and that is what the family wanted, but what is charged here is second-degree murder which is the knowing murder of a person which is 50 to 60 degrees in prison punishable, and there were other lesser options available to the prosecutors and they could have charged voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and lesser versions of statutes to killing another human being, and they settled on the second-degree murder, and so, another thing that is noteworthy and i am looking to more information and sara fla...

Beating? but that aside what kind of charges can all of those people face, the girl who is impeding the poor victim shanquella robinson, the guy's reporting, the friends were around house to what kind of charges can all these people face? >> there is a murder statute. that you can use again both the victims and the perpetrators are u.s. citizens they are no longer in mexico there up in the united states. the long arm of that extraterritorial statute there are certain conditions that have to be met. i see them in this case. so murder, aiding and abetting, misprision of a felony that's not repor...

What will it look like? >> i think that's right, katy. i think the racial animus which may not have been as relevant as evidence in this case, certainly relevant to their motive and their conduct, but maybe not relevant to the act of shooting him, will be more relevant in the federal case, because the federal statute is different. it's not a murder statute under federal law. it's a civil rights hate crimes based statute. so that racial animus, as you said, katy, becomes relevant. i imagine we're going to see more evidence of it. and appropriately so. one other thing i would like to point out, ...

0 men for hate crimes. i don't think it will change the resulting sentence, because the resulting sentence from the state conviction is going to be a very, very, very long time if not life for each of the three men. >> all right, everyone, big, big, day here, so let's reset what we know and where we are at the top of this hour. we're following breaking news in georgia, where a jury just reached a verdict in the case of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. travis mcmichael, who pulled the trigger, was found guilty on all charges, all nine counts, including felony murder, malice murde...