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cnn has confirmed multiple contradictions, including claims that nichols grabbed an officer s gun which was heard in one of the body camera recordings released last week by one of the officers talking about it, but it s not visible on the video. you were going for my gun too, so i m, like he grabbed my gun. look. got him out the car and i was, like, hey, bro. you good? he swung and hit me. he reached for my gun and slammed into the car. so far, ten city employees have faced consequences in the wake of nichols killing. of the latest, two emts and a fire department lieutenant have now been fired. that s three in the fire department and a seventh memphis officer has been relieved of duty last week. five of those seven officers were charged with second-degree murder and assault for nichols death. cnn s ryan young has the latest from memphis. also here, cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. ryan, first, the discrepancies between the video ....
Initial report, talk to us about them. reporter: yeah. something that we re still digging into, and of course, you can ask john about this later, but i have been talking to memphis police department officers today, and i was told when you file a police report, you file a use of force part of the report as well. you had to escalate, maybe go hands on or use some type of force, you include that in the police report, but these discrepancies stand out to us as we watch this video over and over. we ll take you through some of them. it says, nichols was an aggravated assault suspect. that stood out to us as well, and then it said he was sweating profusely and irate upon exiting the vehicle. as we watched that video, you saw the officers actually approach that car with a lot of force, and then it says nichols grabbed for detective martin s gun and then martin is listed as a victim in this case. of course, we don t see that initial pull for any officer s weapon, and then it says nichols pull ....
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