The city of Memphis is set to release the video of Tyre Nichols’ arrest around 7 p.m. ET. Local officials have called for calm pending the video release. And President Joe Biden said in a statement, “Outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable.”
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00:00When you all see this video, you're going to see Tyrese Nichols is calling out for his mom.
00:15He calls out three times for his mother. His last words on this earth is mom, mom, mom.
00:27I mean, he's screaming for her. And when you think about that kidnapping charge, he said, I just want to go home.
00:38I mean, it's a traffic stop, for God's sake. A traffic stop.
00:49This is not the first time that we saw police officers committing crime and engaging in excessive,
00:59brutal force against black people in America who are unarmed.
01:05But yet we have never seen swift justice like this.
01:11We now have the blueprint America. And we won't accept less going forward in the future.
01:17We won't have black officers treated differently than white officers.
01:21We want equal justice under the law.