Today is Monday, January 30th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented

by Betches Media.

I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown

of the headlines that isn't enough for you to take a side and roast the most consequential

reality show there it's, our government.

There was a ton of news this weekend, most of it not exactly Monday morning inspo, especially

true for our first story, which needs a trigger warning for police brutality and violence,

so please give a head about one minute.

The police body camera footage from the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols was released on

Friday evening, of course after the media morbidly hyped it like a season finale.

On that note, I'm not going to describe it here, but based on the totality of the footage,

the police chief acknowledged that they could not substantiate a reckless driving claim,

implying that the violence of these five officers was not after an escalation, but an actively

predatory stop.

Nichols was only 100 yards from his house when he was stopped by the officers, for the

crime of coming home from watching the sunset to go see his mom.

And before we talk about what followed the release of the footage, I just want to say

a few things about Tyree Nichols.

He was a 29-year-old father to a four-year-old son, a photographer and a skateboarder by hobby,

and when he died, he was working at FedEx, doing the evening shift alongside his stepfather.

His mother, Robon Wells, called him a beautiful soul, adding that he had a tattoo of her name

on his arm, and longtime friends called him a free spirit, happy-go-lucky, and a loving

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