'I’m just trying to go home'

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Those were the words of Tyre Nichols as five Memphis police officers violently beat him during a traffic stop. He died three days later, leaving the city of Memphis and the country reeling once again, with protesters taking to the streets this weekend in several cities. His name now joins the long list of Black Americans who have died at the hands of police, a painful reminder of the police brutality that continues to blight America. After the death of George Floyd, change was promised – but the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is still stalled in Congress, and activists ask how many deaths it will take. The five police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death were part of a special unit to tackle rising crime in Memphis, and that “Scorpion Unit” has now been disbanded. There are still many unanswered questions about the officers’ account of what happened that night, as Sara Sidner reports. Also joining the show to discuss the Tyre Nichols killing and its aftermath are Memphis Pastor Earle J. Fisher and UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Amundhore. Here's what's coming out.
0:08.0	The blood of Black America is on your hand.
0:12.0	So stand up and do something. of Black America is on your home.
0:12.6	So stand up and do something.
0:14.0	Pari Giggles!
0:17.7	In Memphis calls for change after the brutal killing
0:20.9	of Tyry Nichols.
0:22.2	But is the political will and commitment there to change
0:26.4	policing in America then?
0:28.4	We've made violence against women a front-page issue, but in fact we have not dismantled patriarchy we have not
0:35.6	ended violence the reckoning the acclaimed playwright and activist behind the
0:40.6	vagina monologues on continuing the fight of her life, ending violence against
0:46.1	women.
0:47.1	Plus, what sources were saying initially is like, we don't think the justices were
0:52.0	questioned and people inside the building were alarmed by that.
0:56.0	Inside the Supreme Court inquiry, the investigation into the abortion opinion and the search that followed with award-winning journalist Jody Cantor. Welcome to the program. I'm Sarah Seidner in New York City in for Christiane
1:23.4	Amman-Pore. I'm just trying to go home. Those were the words of Tyry Nichols as
1:28.5	five Memphis police officers violently beat him during a traffic stop.
1:33.6	He died in the hospital three days later.
1:36.4	And the world has now seen the video, harrowing scenes of Tyree
1:40.3	being struck multiple times, kicked and punched while restrained,
1:44.4	while he screamed for his mother.
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