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top of the hour this friday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and right now all five former police officers charged with murder and other charges in the death of tyre nichols are inside of a memphis courthouse. they are set to be arraigned on seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. this morning the shelby county district attorney said that the prosecutors are still looking into charging a sixth former officer who tased nichols in the traffic stop that night as well as others possibly. we are looking at everybody who was involved directly or indirectly in death of tyre nichols, and this is officer hemphill and those who showed up after the beating had concluded, and we will do what we can as quickly as we can, but thoroughly. now, we are still waiting for the release of 20 hours of additional footage from deadly beating and the aftermath, and it could be relevant, and cnn s shimon prokupiez is there at the courthouse, and i understand ....
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. relieved of duty. cnn learning a sixth officer now put on administrative leave from the memphis police force and the brutal beating of tyre nichols has a painful memory of missed chances as communities look again at what can be done to change the way cops police. plus this week president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy meet. a debt ceiling stalemate that shows zero signs of ending is issue one. and it s an early test of divided government. today the american secretary of state is in israel. the backdrop for his visit a string of death and destruction. raids, synagogue attacks as it come busts. a memphis police major says a six of the police officer has been now been relieved of duty, in in connection with the stop and subsequent boaeating that l to the death of tyre nichols. it follows the scorpion unit, a police team meant to corral street game ....
so we can focus on this little guy. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. hey there. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m alisyn camerota. a sixth officer is now off the memphis police force in connection with the beating death of tyre nichols. preston hemphill was relieved of duty, and his lawyer confirms he was wearing a body camera on january 7th. the footage from it was released friday along with the other videos that show nichols ultimately fatal encounter with police. we have a warning for you. what we re about to play is disturbing. footage from the multiple cameras shows nichols getting kicked and punched and pepper sprayed and beaten with a baton. and when the assault stopped, no one gave nichols any medical attention for at least 25 minutes. now, five of the officers seen in the video have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and their unit to fight street crimes and guns known as scorpion, that s now gone. it ....
ail alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. a sixth officer has been let go. they won t say if preston hemphill will face charges. that footage was released with the other video. we have a warning because the body cam clip we are about to show is disturbing. in this video from hemphill s camera he is seen unufiring a t. they found him. martin and all them are over there chasing him. i hope they stomp his ass. i hope they stomp his ass. smith is calling for other cars. his lawyer says hemphill was on scene and they say he was a member of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. the five former memphis officers charged with second degree murder also belong to that anti-crime unit. over the weekend it was deactivated permanently. with us is john miller, chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. so, the sixth officer now has been relieved of duty. do we expect more charges to come? well, he was relieved of duty, we understand, at the same time all the others were. the ....
accused of waging war on energy in america. all of this is coming up. we want to get right away to the border story. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. dramatic new video now. let s go to it. showing the magnitude of the jeopardy to our sovereign nation. the video shows a large group of illegal immigrants bailing out of a human smuggler s truck followed by a high-speed chase. the driver later lost control and crashed that truck. after hitting speeds of 100 miles-per-hour or more. texas troopers were chasing her down and then had to tackle her down to keep her from getting away. all of this comes as homeland security secretary mayokas is in miami, florida today touting new measures the administration says will put a dent in illegal crossings. two borders. shocking numbers tell a different story than the one coming out of his mouth. cbp sources telling fox there have been nearly 300,000 gotaways just since october. those are the ones our scanners and ....