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Duty. do we know what role those people may have played in this? >> two officers were named as having been relieved of duty. it is the local's way of saying they're on administrative leave. these officers were put on administrative leave weeks ago and we are just learning about them this week. we asked the memphis police department why. they didn't directly respond to the question but did say they're committed to transparency in a statement and told us we should expect more personnel actions in the coming days. meanwhile, you remember last week two emts were put on administrative leave. they h...

As the six officers suspended the violent encounter. says the department was investigated for these entertainers are gilles nichols, -- never present at the second, seen or officers calista nichols, adding that his client is cooperating with officials, in this investigation and quote. hemphill is not been charged for any crimes, fired three medical technicians that they said violated numerous policies, and failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of tyre nichols, after officers called them to respond to a person who is pepper sprayed. additionally, they had at the shelby county sheriff...

The initial call they got that there was an individual who had been pepper sprayed, and that then they spoke to an officer on the scene and really just relied on those two bits of information. the initial call about a pepper spray and then what they were told by an officer at the scene. instead of doing their own assessment of tyre nichols. so they first got the call and based on the timeline we have from the fire department, they responded initially to that first intersection where the initial encounter happened, there they spoke to an officer, were directed to the other place where tyre nich...

Really felt like this was in evidence of this police department not being as transparent as they had promised to be up until this point. they feel like things should have moved quicker. they feel like more audio recordings should be out and more information, more names should be available to the public. in terms of the fired employees, those three, two of them are emts, one was the driver that night. according to the fire chief for the memphis fire department, they violated a number of department policies when they responded to this. they say when they got to the scene, they relied on the init...

A 17-minute delay, and even then according to a statement from memphis fire department, nichols was only treated for the initial reason the emts were called, having been pepper sprayed, not the numerous other injuries he sustained in the brutal beating captured on tape. it all raises the painful question, if in those critical minutes the emts had followed the very policies and protocols investigators say they broke, would it have saved nichols' live? unfortunately, we have been here before. as the associated press puts it, just like the attack on george floyd in minneapolis nearly three years ...