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menendez. following a deadly beating of tyre nichols. today protesters are once again demanding accountability outside of memphis police precinct. we are going to be silent for three minutes symbolizing the three minutes for which officers be nichols on january 7th. police video of the assault was mark friday. it sparked all across this country and they were repeatedly kicking, punting nichols, beating him of the baton. nichols that three-day later from the hospital. now tried to second degree murder, their actions are reigniting demands for congress to act. police reforms and the cy...

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the memphis police department in the united states has disbanded the so—called scorpion special unit whose officers are accused of murdering tyre nichols. the 29—year—old black man was kicked and punched by five policemen, who are also black. they've now been sacked and face multiple charges, including murder. a warning, nada tawfik�*s report from memphis contains some distressing images. justice for tyre! the familiar rallying cry heard too often after incidents of police brutality. memphis�*s worst fears never...

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A lot more now also about the whole culture of how police are trained, the bias that there might be in the force, and looking at whether that can be addressed. barbara plett usher for us there in memphis. seft hunter, with activist group community change, told me what he made of the action taken by the authorities. certainly i think what we saw in this case is much more swift action then we have seen in other cases, right? and in part, in previous cases, often times what happens is a level of secrecy is maintained, sometimes for weeks or months, certainly the officers are rarely fired this qui...

As a new father, that is just the most haunting, the most horrifying example of what it means to be denied one's humanity. when you look at the video, you hear the officers checking on each other after beating tyre for three whole minutes. they are offering each other to put eyewash in their eyes, they are asking each other, "hey, have you found your eyeglasses?" so the level of humanity that they've extended themselves, they did not seek to extend to tyre in what is described as a routine traffic stop. that to me has to be something that is really centred in this conversation. what is impossi...