Tyre Nichols video live: White House says Biden hasn’t watched Tyre Nichols bodycam footage

Memphis police said they would release video of Tyre Nichols’ arrest around 7:00 pm EST.

The police cadre will play a key role in the prosecution of five officers charged with the murder of a 29-year-old man.

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As the nation turns its attention to the death of Tyre Nichols, there are a few things you need to know. In such cases, the police do not always tell the whole truth. Sometimes they try to distract themselves from it. Other times they are outright lying.

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The family of Tyre Nichols, who died in January after being violently arrested by Memphis police, want to be remembered as a loving son and father to their 4-year-old son.

“He was a good man,” his mother, RowVon Wells, told CNN. “All the good things in Tire will come out and that’s what keeps me going because I just feel like my son was sent here on a mission.”

“He has my name tattooed on his arm and I’m proud of it because most kids don’t write their mom’s name, but he did,” she added.

On Friday, the president called the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who died in a brutal traffic arrest in January.

During the conversation, Rowan Wells, the young man’s mother, told the President that her son had her name tattooed on his arm.

“This is what you call something special,” Biden replied.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Mr. Biden praised the family for their courage and shared his own experience of losing his son.

Washington Post filmed part of their conversation.

The 29-year-old father died in hospital a few days after he was detained by police during a traffic stop.

Now, five officers from the Memphis Police Department have been removed from their posts and imprisoned on charges of second-degree murder.

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The video of George Floyd being strangled to death by police in Minneapolis in 2020 runs for an agonizing nine and a half minutes.

Cell phone footage filmed by a bystander of Eric Garner grappling with the ground in Staten Island in 2014, an illegal chokehold is applied and is heard eleven times before passing out, choking, “I can’t breathe.” similar length.

Despite their different geographic locations and the angles from which the incidents were filmed, both parts of the frame revealed the same truth—that an unarmed black man was killed by the police even as he pleaded for help.

The videos are terrible, terrible. It is impossible to look at them, or the like, without nausea. When you hit the play button, you are essentially signing up to watch another person get killed. Moreover, it is someone who is brutally murdered, often begging for his mother or declaring his innocence. Watching these videos is not easy, because the scenes can be difficult to erase from memory. They are not here for our entertainment. However, it is important that people watch these videos, or at least enough people to share what happened.

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The president spoke to Tyre Nichols’ family, according to the White House.

“During the conversation, the president praised the courage and strength of the family,” the pool report said.

President Biden defends his civil rights record on police issues ahead of Tyre Nichols video release.

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The White House is closely monitoring the situation in Memphis, spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said. said On Friday.

“The President expressed his sincere condolences to the entire Tyre Nichols family, yesterday to him and the first lady,” said Ms. Jean-Pierre. “He will be regularly informed, as before. He will monitor the situation.”

According to a Biden spokesman, the president was briefed on the killing of Tyre Nichols but did not watch police footage of the confrontation.

The family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who died after being violently arrested by Memphis police, are urging children not to watch upcoming footage of the confrontation.

“I’ve never seen this video, but what I’ve heard is very horrifying,” Rowan Wells, mother of Tyra Nichols, said Friday during a press conference. “Any of you who have children, please let them see this.”