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

The White House is closely monitoring the situation in Memphis, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Told on Friday.

Ms. Jean-Pierre said, “The President sent his heartfelt condolences to the entire family of Tyree Nicholls, yesterday he and the First Lady.” Told, “He is going to be briefed regularly as he has been. He is going to be monitoring the situation.”

The Biden official said the president has been briefed on the killing of Tyr Nichols, but has not seen the police video of the encounter.

The family of Tyr Nichols, a 29-year-old black man killed by Memphis police following a violent arrest, is urging children not to watch upcoming video of the encounter.

“I’ve never seen the video, but from what I’ve heard it’s terrible,” Rowan Wells, Tyree Nichols’ mother, said during a press conference on Friday. “Any of you who have kids, please let her watch.”

Memphis police have retracted their original claim that Tyra Nichols was stopped for reckless driving.

“I’m going to be honest with you about the stop. What was said appeared to be what is considered reckless driving,” Police Chief Serelin Davis told CNN on Friday. “We have seen the cameras. We’ve seen body-worn cameras. Even if something happened before this stop, we have been unable to confirm it.”

Here’s our full report on the stop.

The young man’s death has caused deep pain for the Nichols family, and has touched off a scandal throughout the town.

Here’s what we know about the traffic stop where things started.

Details are scant about the police stop that led up to the violent and fatal arrest of Tyra Nichols at the hands of Memphis officers earlier this year.

“We don’t know anything more than what we see in the video,” said Ben Crump, an attorney for the Nichols family. Told During a press conference on Friday.

“They say he was driving recklessly. We’ll have to look into it. We certainly can’t take his word for it.

Rowan Wells, the mother of Tyra Nichols, said during a press conference Friday that she could not bring herself to watch video of her son being violently arrested by police, footage that was released to the public this evening. expected to go.

“I’ve never seen the video, but from what I’ve heard it’s terrifying,” she said. “Any of you who have kids, please let her watch.”

She said, “I just want to pray for my family, for this whole community, and I want to say to the five police officers who killed my son, you have dishonored your family by doing this.” “I want to pray for you and your families because at the end of the day, this should not have happened. This should not have happened. We want justice for our son.”

see his full comment HereThrough WUSA.

The US Attorney for West Tennessee is one of several officers investigating the violent and ultimately fatal police arrest of Tyre Nichols.

The case is the latest civil rights test for the Biden Justice Department, which has made a point of cracking down on police misconduct with investigations into troubled police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.

Here’s our in-depth report on Joe Biden’s civil rights record so far as president.

On Thursday, officers Taddeus Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith were all charged with second-degree murder.

As of Friday morning, Haley was the only suspect still behind bars, with the other four having posted bond and been released from jail.

According to jail records, Mr. Mills and Mr. Smith were released on Thursday evening after posting their $250,000 bond.

Mr Martin and Mr Bean were released on Friday morning.

Ms. Davis told CNN that the department had reviewed all available video footage and found that there was no probable cause to arrest Nichols.

Police have previously said that a “confrontation” occurred as Nichols approached the vehicle and fled on foot. He was taken into custody after a second “confrontation”, during which he received serious injuries.

Nichols, 29, died three days later in hospital.

A 29-year-old father has died in hospital days after being detained by police during a traffic stop.

Now five officers from the Memphis Police Department have been fired from their positions and jailed for second degree murder.

Memphis Police Chief Cerelin Davis urged calm as bodycam footage prepares to be released.

“I hope you feel what the Nichols family feels,” she said in a video statement on Jan. 25. “I hope you feel outraged at the disregard of basic human rights, as our police officers have sworn to do the opposite of what happened in the video.”

Everything we know so far about Tyra Nicholls’ death is this: