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with you, i m griff jenkins. five of the police officers involved in that arrest have been charged with second degree murder and aggravated assault among other crimes. we have fox team coverage on this with alexandria hoff in washington and charles watson in memphis. charles, let s kick things off with you in the brutal body cam footage. yeah, hey, good afternoon, griff and molly and in watching that footage, it absolutely appeared that tyre nichols as surprised at the level of aggression the memphis police officers had toward him during that violent january 7th traffic stop. from the start body cam video shows officers yank nichols aggressively out of his vehicle as the 29-year-old says he didn t do anything. he s thrown to the ground while officers continue to yell at him to get on the ground in a series of profanity-laced commands. a few moments later, you see police tase nichols as he manages to escape and run away and as some of the officers on scene pursue him, ....
Scene pursue him, you can hear one officer who remains behind wish harm on nichols. stomp (bleep), i hope they st stomp (bleep) chasing him. when officers do catch him, nichols ends up on the ground while officers restrain him, punch mimm and pepper spray him. all the while, the officers ever demanding he give them his hands as nichols desperately calls out for his mother. hey, hey bro. mom! mom! mom! now, even though in the video it appears officers have nichols restrained, the assault continues. we see officers kick him in the face like he s a football, one officers punches him in the face at least four times and another swats nichols with a baton before he collapses. eventually officers drag him and prop him up against the police car where he sits for ....