Hi, everyone. We come in the air together after watching it. Another family endure the public rituals of grief after losing their son, their brother,

father, God brother, nephew, Tyre Nichols. In a brutal beating by five police officers, those five officers have been charged with murder, but today was not about that.

Today is about Tyre Nichols and the community of Memphis that has stood by with his family through this unspeakable grave. In attendance on this first day of Black History Month, the brother George Floyd,

Rihanna Taylor's mom, almost three years after their death in police custody, as well as our vice president, Kamala Harris.

This is where we begin our coverage. Tony has live from Memphis, the Zambi C. News correspondent in Tony and Hilton. She's been our eyes and ears on this story from the very beginning. David Henderson is also back with us, the Civil Rights Attorney and former prosecutor.

Tony, this went two hours and they're still singing. I feel like we need this baby more than any other part of it. When two hours, or no, I'm sorry, one hour and 45 minutes.

Family, I have to just start with the family, our colleague, the Rev, delivered an extraordinary eulogy. We'll play some of that for our viewers, the vice president.

It's an extraordinary remark, but it's always the family that stands there at the moment of the unthinkable and sort of brings the house down with their strengths and their courage to stand there and talk about what this is like, your thoughts.

Absolutely. This was emotional, I think, from start to finish, from the musical performances, which were incredibly moving to the speeches that you heard.

We had a sense from our reporting of how this was going to all be brought together and handled, because they wanted the focus on Tyree Nichols' life.

It's a celebration of him. We saw some new photos of him that we hadn't seen before. We saw some of his photography, so much of the life that he lived and the fun that he liked to have when he was skating or hanging out with friends.

And some of that was material we hadn't seen of him before in recent days. But anyone who's spent time in a Black historic church knows that no matter what, you're always going to get a message.

And as I've been talking to people who have surrounded the family in the last couple days, they wanted to make sure that his life was not lost in vain.

But there was a call to action that people would come and know that supporting Tyree and the family means a lot more than just condolences and well wishes to them.

That they want to see forward movement in the form of, in the words of the Vice President, the passing of the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.

Benjamin Crump, the family's attorney, made it very clear that there's now a new standard of the number of days they want to see for these investigations to go by.

It needs to be a matter now of days or weeks, not months. You know, we kept repeating 20 days as now the new standard for these investigations, if cases like Tyree Nichols happen again.

They also are pushing for the end of qualified immunity. They want people to be able to sue police officers directly. And so, you know, the funeral for them had to be so much more than just his memory, so much more than just, you know, saying sorry to the family and that we're here with you.

They want his life to take on this national level of meaning. And I think you saw that woven in really delicately throughout the entire ceremony that, you know, he's become a symbol now for people who want to push this conversation forward who are, you know, frustrated after George Floyd and all the protests in the movement that that just seemed to completely fall apart in an action from our federal government.

You can see the anger how fed up people are in their faces and their emotions. And all of that was so present right there on the surface throughout a ceremony that was still ultimately about celebrating his life.

But it's coming at this fascinating time to Nicole where there is this push still on the investigation front too. And we heard them touch on that as well.

It's they want to see more people charged and they want to see more people who are on the scene fired. And so it's all those pieces, the local, the state and the federal elements here. They really want Tyrie's life to take on the significance. And they don't want his death to end in vain.

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