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And you can see how someone can control that camera. my photographer jd and i are out here. and you can see the license plate on that clear clearly. you can see us walking. and dispatch can listen to the police officer radio in, turn the camera, and even zoom in to get a little closer and give you that up close detail. so many questions about this video, but it proved crucial in this case. >> joe, what's that camera? >> a memphis police sky cop. >> reporter: it's a system used to capture the overhead shot of the brutal beating that led to the death of tyre nichols. five former memphis police o...

Investigation continues. of course that video is hard to watch, but there were so many questions about how that video was captured and how the cameras turn. you can see the cameras here on a pole just like this one created by a company here in memphis, but when you look at a pole like this, sky cop is always above. if an officer hears something over the radio, they can switch this camera, they can see in such clarity what is going on and that is what happened that night when the camera zoomed in. these are crucial to adding a force multiplier across the city. ryan young, cnn. and families de...

Now five former police officers charged with second degree murder. this camera captured the crew that will footage of nichols being beaten. >> it is to teeter crime and capture crime and it does what it was supposed do.crime and capture crime and it does what it was supposed do. >> reporter: this former police officer oversaw the program in its early stages and now works for sky cop, a private company that works with police departments to build cameras and technology that goes with them. >> so this is powered by the light, it has a ready roer inside, it has blue light, has a pan tilt zoom came...

Similar. there were some body cameras that malfunctioned but there was another camera called the sky cop that caught the view. in other words, when one witness at a scene doesn't see everything, because one witness saw it was a chevy, the next witness says that i saw the license plate, the next witness said i didn't see what kind of car it was or the license plate, but i saw an accident. i don't care what you summarize. we still saw brutality. we saw an offense. and that is something that has been revealed. i would encourage you to know that even suffering has a point to it. jesus had a crown ...

According to his mother and his mother said to me today, i am sure he was actually hoping that i could hear him, and i am devastated as a mother, she said, because i couldn't be there in his time of need to save him. i want to show you what captured all of this, because had it not been for what they call the sky cop, you see the blue light up there, and underneath it, there is the shield, and then mpd, we are hearing from people in the neighborhood, that took the video that we all saw. without it, we may not have gotten the full picture of exactly what happened. because you notice that the bod...