Nov 3, 2023
UPDATE: Former Cop Pleads GUILTY In Tyre Nichols' Death
- 8 minutes
We got a guilty plea in a federal case.
Remember the killers of Mr.Tyre Nichols.
Well, one down in the federal charges.
I wanna remind you of what happened during
that incident and update the story.
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>> Speaker 1: Blow the
>> Get off the car.
>> Speaker 2: Damn, I didn't do anything.
>> Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't,
turn your ass around.
>> Speaker 2: All right,all right,
all right.
>> On the ground,
on the ground, on the ground.
>> All right,all right, all right.
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>> You don't do that, okay?
>> Speaker 1: Get on the ground.
>> Speaker 2: Get on the ground.
>> Speaker 2: All right,
I'm on the ground.
>> Speaker 2: Turn around,
I'm gonna tase you.
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>> You get on the ground.
>> Stop.
>> Speaker 2: One, now, I'll tase you.
>> All right, okay, all right.
>> Or I'll break your
>> Okay.
>> Speaker 1: Horrible,
horrible individuals, all of them.
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Every single one of them.
Desmond Mills junior was one of
the five former Memphis police
department officers charged for
the killing of Tyre Nichols.
He has now pleaded guilty in
a federal court as of Thursday,
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November 2, to charges related
to civil rights violations and
conspiracy stemming from the violent Jan,
7th arrest.
Now, keep his picture up.
I wanna highlight something.
You plead guilty to conspiracy.
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Conspiracy in law means you
have to possess what's called
a meeting of the mind.
You have to agree to a criminal
act prior to the act being done.
Which speaks to a level
of premeditation or
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at least a culture of premeditation
prior to the engagement.
Nichols'parents reacted to the plea
hearing outside of the federal court in
Memphis, with his mother calling
the proceeding, quote, a start, a start.
And his father saying, quote, this is
the first domino to fall, in quote.
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Let's put him up.
Mills along with his co
defendants Emmett Martin III,
to Darius Bean,
Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith,
were caught on body cam taking turns
in the brutal beating of Mr. Nichols.
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The four remaining defendants will
continue to face the federal court system.
The charges laid out in the indictment
via federal trial that's scheduled for
May 6, 2024.
All of them also face
state felony charges.
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Let me remind you of what
they did to this man.
He never recovered.
The officers were indicted by a federal
grand jury on September 12th.
The charges including the use of excessive
force that led to the death of another
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human being, aiding and
abetting each other and
the excessive force failing to
intervene to prevent the abuse.
Neglecting to provide
medical assistance and
engaging in a conspiracy to
conceal their misconduct.
Let me give you more on Mills.
So he pleaded guilty for his use of
excessive force, his failure to intervene,
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which there is a mandate for
that in the state.
In the unlawful assault and conspiring
to cover up his use of unlawful force,
he confessed to repeatedly and
unjustifiably striking Mr.Nichols
with a baton and failing to intervene
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when other officers also used
excessive force against Mr.Nichols.
He admitted that he witnessed
another officer repeatedly hitting
Nichols in the head while two
other officers held Nichols down.
He also acknowledged that he did not
provide any medical aid to Mr.Nichols
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despite knowing that Nichols'
condition was severe.
In addition,
Mills said he failed to inform the MPD or
Memphis Fire Department,
EMTs about the injuries they caused Mr.
Nichols.
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Mills also took part in
conversations with other officers
discussing the use of
force against Nichols.
Intending to make him fall and expressing
the belief that they were close to
causing Nichols'death when he
did not fall from their blows,
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they were in fact, torturing Mr.
Nichols at this time.
Mills said he lied to supervisors, he lied
to detectives about following procedure.
He submitted a false report
claiming that Nichols was, quote,
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aggressively resisting officers.
None of this was true.
Mills faces 15 years in prison,
would not be subject to
parole in the federal system.
He really should not see the light
of day again, none of them.
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Now remember, Memphis told us,
wait, the tape is so
bad, we have to wait a few
weeks before we show it to you.
Police chief gets on
television to call for
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peace, for people not to become
criminals because of the news.
Chief, you should have been addressing
the criminals under your command,
because the people you
addressed in that city, well,
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they're not the ones who broke the law.
Your cops did.
And now you have even more
exhausting detail as to
the extreme evil that all
of these individuals did.
Now, why were they all on the same page?
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Number one, they're bad people.
But they were all on the same page
contrary to what the document says,
contrary to what the policy says,
contrary to what they swore to do.
They were on the same page because
they're part of the same culture.
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The culture,
trumps policy every day of the week.
So we could talk about these five,
I would say six individuals, the white
male officer who did not get the same
charges as in this in my opinion as well.
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We could talk about them in the context
of a silo, or we can understand
that they are also part of an overall
culture that has to be, well, eliminated.
Bad policing has to leave
the United States of America.
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Good police officers should be upheld
as we do right here on Indisputable.
The culture itself is dictating a lot
of the protective action that you see
after citizen is brutally assaulted or
killed by the police.
Ben, thoughts here.
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>> Speaker 3: It's just so
hard to see it again.
There's so much that goes on and
how difficult place the world's in lately
that you move on to the next tragedy and
the next one and then seeing it
unfold in a recap like that.
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Just a good young man
who 1 minute is saying,
hey, relax, relax and the next minute
he's on death's doorstep and then dies.
This police officer, thank God he pled
guilty and is facing the music but
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just plead guilty to murder,
admit to murder.
Don't all these individual charges
that make it seem more reasonable
even though you're admitting
to a horrible thing.
We just have lost our moral compass.
We've lost our connection
to common humanity.
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In life Yyu have to sometimes protect
yourself with force when it's necessary.
Other than that,
you don't ever have to use force.
And you don't ever have to.
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And you should, of course, should never,
ever take justice into your own hands.
That's the reason we have a legal system
and we need better vetting for police.
We need better standards for humanity.
We just have lost touch of how to care for
one another and love for one another.
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It's truly heart wrenching.
>> Speaker 1: It really is man,
it really is.
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