Five ex-police officers indicted for murder

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, January 26 and reports on former Memphis Police officers who are facing murder charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being pulled over for a traffic stop. Plus, President Biden fires back at Republicans, as some GOP lawmakers threaten to use the debt ceiling to impose spending cuts on Medicare and Social Security. Marq Claxton, Alencia Johnson, Chai Komanduri, and John Flannery join.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Beat.
0:02.5	I'm Ari Melbourne.
0:03.5	We begin tonight with Breaking News.
0:07.8	Murder charges have been issued today for all five Memphis police officers, now relieved
0:12.6	of duty former officers, for the beating death of Tyree Nichols.
0:17.6	Those former officers are also now in custody.
0:19.9	The people you see on your screen now in civilian clothing booked and incarcerated awaiting
0:26.0	what would be a murder trial.
0:28.8	They are charged with killing this individual through a knowing state of mind and all
0:33.7	five and will explain the legalities of this accused of contributing directly to the
0:39.5	death.
0:40.8	This is Justin Smith, Emmett Martin, Desmond Mills Jr., Demetrius Haley, and Tadarius
0:45.1	Bean.
0:46.1	There are other charges in addition to the most serious charge of murder, aggravated
0:49.9	assault and kidnapping.
0:51.7	This is a case that has royaled Memphis and the rest of the nation and in some ways,
0:56.9	assault involves the tragic death of Tyree Nichols.
0:59.6	It is also a case that will explore tonight that shows how some law enforcement responses
1:04.6	to law enforcement killings are changing.
1:07.8	He died three days after being pulled over for what was something that shouldn't have
1:11.9	been a nonviolent interaction at all, alleged reckless driving.
1:15.6	The DA, now revealing more about what was a confrontation where Nichols apparently fled
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