Memphis releases deadly police beating videos

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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The city of Memphis released graphic videos of Tyre Nichols’ arrest that appears to show police hit the 29-year-old Black man nine times in four minutes. Nichols died three days after the arrest and beating. Five former Memphis police officers who were involved in the traffic stop have been charged with murder and kidnapping. Benjamin Crump is one of the attorneys for the Nichols’ family. He tells AC360 why the family wanted the public to see the videos. Plus, former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller joins AC360 to discuss the graphic videos.

Guests: Benjamin Crump, John Miller

Airdate: January 27, 2023

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0:00.0	This is a special edition of Anderson Cooper 360, and I'm Aaron Bernad along with my colleague
0:08.8	Don Lemon, who has been on the ground covering this story tirelessly from Memphis.
0:14.8	All of our reporters and our experts are standing by.
0:19.4	Van Jones is also with us.
0:21.1	And Van, as we watch this, I want to emphasize again, we are not replaying it.
0:26.4	This is not a clip.
0:27.7	This is still happening.
0:29.3	The beating now is more than 12 or more minutes ago, and he's just still lying on the ground.
0:38.1	Brutal, inhumane, unacceptable, unjustifiable.
0:42.8	I mean, he's just now getting attention.
0:44.4	A dog being beaten would have gotten some help from somebody by this point.
0:50.8	And also, you know, we talk about the images.
0:54.1	The voices are so telling.
0:57.4	Tyree's voice.
0:59.0	The first time you hear him, he's calm.
1:01.5	He's trying to calm the police down.
1:02.8	He's saying, all right, all right, all right.
1:04.6	He goes from a voice of reason and calm.
1:07.2	And they are so brutal toward him that he runs.
1:09.7	The next time you hear him, he's gone from calm to panic.
1:13.2	Ma, ma, ma, ma screaming for his mother.
1:17.4	He's a hundred yards from his house, hoping that somebody can help him.
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