Prominent civil-rights lawyer Ben Crump told CNN’s “State of the Union,” “I believe that all of [accused cops] will be convicted of crimes.”
“Whether all of them will be convicted of murder, we have to dissect this video,” he
“One thing is for certain Dana; all of these officers failed their oath,” Crump said. “They failed their oath to protect and serve. Look at that video.”“How many of these tragedies do we have to see on video before we say, ‘We have a problem America.’ “taking photos of the sunset at a local park the evening of Jan. 7 when he was stopped by Memphis cops who claimed he was under the influence.
Nichols fled the cops on foot as they appeared to grow increasingly aggressive and was soon nabbed nearby and given what ended up being a lethal caught-on-video beating by the officers, his family says. Memphis’s police chief has saidThe five officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating.Five cops were fired and quickly charged with second-degree murder and other raps in the case.for Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. in Shelby County court, records show.
Crump said he hopes the swift bringing of charges against the officers will be a “blueprint going forward, whether the officers are black or white,” and that the incident will spur the passage of a federal police-reform introduced in Congress in 2021. The five charged cops are black, as was Nichols.
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