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BREAKING NEWS!!! Tyre Nichols Update · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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  Black. Y'all already know how y'all already know how stirrup. Oh lord,
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  all right, y'all know I never go y'all know I stopped going live on
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  Thursdays like a month ago, well like right before football season. But AnyWho,
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  y'all, welcome back to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Okay,
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  y'all, so let me say this. This is definitely not gonna be a
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  long show because I know it's Thursday night football and then I had to get
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  over the Clubhouse because I'm hosting a space on Clubhouse tonight. But I definitely
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  want to jump on. I wanted to bring y'all some breaking news. So
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  remember I told y'all I was gonna always keep y'all updated with the murder trial.
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  With the murder case of Tyree Nichols, Well, it has been some
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  breaking news today, y'all. So one of the five police officers that has
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  been indicted in the murder of Tyree Nichols, one has pled guilty to the
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  federal charges today. Initially, the first five officers when they entered their plea
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  with regards to the federal case, they all entered the plea of not guilty.
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  So apparently Desmond Mills again, who was one of the police officers that
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  was indicted in the murder in the brutal beating that unfortunately led to the untommy
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  del of Tyree Nichols, apparently had a change of heart, y'all. So
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  apparently he is redacted his not guilty plea and he has turned around and entered
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  a key of a plea of guilty, y'all, soul, Oh my goodness,
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  my goodness, my goodness. I'm gonna say this. I really don't
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  know how I feel about this because with the plea, although he redacted his
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  guilt, his not guilty plea, and turned around and went on ahead and
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  entered his plea of guilty, his attorneys and defense team are trying to get
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  him a sentence of fifteen years. But again we all know it is not
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  up to them. They have recommended that he be sentenced to fifteen years.
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  Now, mind you, y'all, this is just the federal trial. This
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  is not the criminal trials. So the criminal trial, I'll bring you the
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  up on that, but I know they have not started. But I know
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  this is again for the federal he is entered a plea of guilty for the
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  federal charges that were filed against him, against him and the four other officers
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  in the Bruler beating that led to the unfortune death of Tyree Nichols. I
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  do have a couple of videos. Like I said, this is not gonna
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  be long. I just wanted to jump on because, babe, this was
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  definitely some breaking news in the Tyree Nichols case. So let me roll the
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  video with regards to what happened. And then I do have the video of
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  the family reacting to mister Desmond Mills actually redacting his not guilty plea and going
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  ahead and entering a plea of guilty. So dropping a comments, let me
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  know what you guys think. How do you guys feel about this? Do
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  you feel like him turning around? He had a he had a change of
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  hard maybe his conscience kicked in. I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna let
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  you watch the video and then I'm gonna go ahead and give you my response.
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  But y'all, let me know what you're thinking dropping the comments. This
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  is a man who watched this video with me and the next words out of
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  his mouth were, oh my god, this could have been my brother.
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  Breaking news. A change of heart, resulting in a change of plea.
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  Today, former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills Junior officially pled guilty to federal charges
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  filed against him and the beating death of Tyree Nichols. The decision is part
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  of a plea deal. Thank you for joining us. I'm April Thompson him
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  Alex Coleman, Wrig's Ashley Paul was inside the courtroom and today Ashley breaks it
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  down for US. Ashley, Alex April. The prosecution is asking for up
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  to fifteen years in prison in prison in exchange for Desmond Mills Junior's full cooperation
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  in all investigations involving the beating death of Tyree Nichols. But Mills's attorney says
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  this isn't just about a change of plea, but also about a clearer conscience.
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  My use of force was excessive on mister Nichols, and I did make
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  misleading statements. These words spoken by defendant and former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills
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  Junior as he officially switched to a guilty plea in federal court today. The
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  exceptional empathy that he's had from the beginning of this is what's driving this plan.
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  Mister Mills is somebody who understands here's something wrong and he's taking responsibility for
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  it. Cameras weren't allowed in the courtroom, but Judge Mark Norris explained with
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  the plea change, Mills is now considered a fell in guilty of federal charges,
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  including using excessive force and witness tampering. The charges come with a maximum
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  penalty of life in prison, but in a plea agreement with the US federal
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  court, they ask for a maximum of fifteen years in exchange for his cooperation
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  in the federal, State and Department of Justice investigations. He is fully cooperating
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  and will we expect him to continue to fully cooperate, answering all questions truthfully
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  testifying to his role in the incident and what he saw the other defendants commit
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  at the same incident. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Moulroy, also president in
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  court today. He tells us this agreement is part of a global settlement including
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  the US Attorney's Office, the DA's Office, and Mills. We have agreed,
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  as part of that global settlement that we will also accept a plead guilty
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  to comparable state charges from mister Mills, and that we will agree to make
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  a similar recommendation for a fifteen year sentence, and as Mills listen to what
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  his next decades may look like, his attorney explained to us he's relieved.
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  That's why he charged with a crime because he failed to act in a way
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  that he knows he should have acted. But immediately upon understanding that, he's
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  begun to cooperate and today is the first step in publicly taking responsibility. Now
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  the judge will have the ultimate say in the sentence, saying that hearing is
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  tentatively scheduled for May twenty second. Now coming up at five, we'll hear
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  from the family of Tyrene Nichols about this decision. But for not reporting life
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  downtown. I'm Ashley Paul WRG News Channel three. So when the news came
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  in yesterday and before they officially made the statement today, I'm gonna say this,
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  I'm gonna give my honest opinion with regards to him changing redacting his not
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  guilty plead to guilty. I don't feel like he had a change your heart.
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  I feel like the attorneys told him that this was gonna be the best
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  thing for him to do. Will the other four follow suit. We don't
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  know yet, but as you guys know, Desmond Mills Junior was the officer.
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  Again, he was one of five, but he was the officer that
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  had previously, prior to this Tyrene Nichols case, had previously been charged with
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  beating another inmate at the time when he was just a correctional, when he
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  was a probation a correctional office. I'm so sorry, and due to the
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  defendant not coming forward, the charges were dropped and then he was hired on
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  maybe a year or so after that, to the Memphis Police Department. So
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  he's always been in correction. But this again, y'all, Desmond Mills Junior,
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  because I do not want you to forget this was the officer that was
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  kicking Tyree Nichols in the face. This was the very same officer that took
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  pictures of Tyree Nichols after he had been brutally beaten and sent the pictures out.
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  So I want you to keep in mind who Desmond Mills Junior is.
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  I'm not gonna never let you forget that, Okay. I feel like,
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  Desmond Mills Junior, you took the advice of your attorney. I don't believe
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  you had to change your heart. I don't believe you sat there and you
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  empathized with mister Tyree Nichols, because had you have empathized with him, you
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  and your fellow counterparts would have never brutalized this young man. You never would
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  have did what you did. You guys failed to render aid to this young
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  man for eleven minutes. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was eleven
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  minutes. You sat there and you watched this young man die. So I
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  don't believe that, Oh my god, all of a sudden, all that
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  could have been my brother. Were you thinking of that that night when you
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  guys box Tyree Nichols in and you drug him and you brutalize this young man
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  just steps away from his home? Did you think about that being your brother?
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  Then that's the million dollar question. Okay. So I'm just gonna be
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  honest with you. I do not believe that it was all of a sudden,
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  just this change your heart. Oh my god, he had this epiphany,
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  Old God, this could have be and my brother. I don't believe
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  that. I don't Others may believe that he's empathetic, sympathetic, that he's
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  very genuine. I believe that he knows that he was probably going to get
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  the bulk of the time because of what he did. Because again, y'all,
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  don't forget, Desmond Mills Junior had previously done this to another black man
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  and got away with it. You turnaround and you brutally beat Tyree Nichols,
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  and you fail to render aid to him. I believe, I want to
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  say, y'all, it was eleven minutes. It may have been eighteen minutes,
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  but I know regardless, one minute was too long. You guys fail
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  to render aid to this young man. So do I believe that he's empathetic?
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  Absolutely not. I feel like the only reason you took this plea is
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  because you're trying to get lesser time. Again, y'all, this is federal.
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  This is not the criminal as of yet. Again, they are still
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  being charged with murder. Oh god, my mind just literally went blink.
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  So again, y'all, this is the federal. They are recommending him to
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  fifteen years, but again, like they say, it's ultimately up to the
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  judge how much time he will actually serve. Federally, we are yet to
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  see the criminal, okay, because they are facing up to life in prison.
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  All five officers did enter a plea of not guilty on the criminal charges,
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  and all five had initially into the plea of not guilty on the federal
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  But now Desmond Mills Junior has, oh my goodness, had this little change
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  of heart, and now all of a sudden, you want to be guilty,
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  and now you want to flip on your counterparts. Absolutely not, sir.
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  I don't don't believe it. I don't care who else believes it,
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  you know, but I'm just telling you for me. I don't believe that
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  he's empathetic or that he's sorry. I believe he's just sorry that he was
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  caught. I do believe that he's sorry that this time he has to stand
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  up for what he's done. I believe that's what he's sorry about is now
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  you have. Now you're facing some real consequences. Okay, there was another
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  young man that was brutalized by these same officers. He lived. But I
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  do believe from what I hear, I do believe that he is due to
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  come and testify. I believe he's supposed to be a witness in the criminal
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  case. Okay, in the criminal not the federal. Natalie says, he
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  says it. She says, they all need life in your absolutely. But
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  again, Sis, this is just a federal so they have yet to go
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  to trial as of yet on the criminal side. But again, the federal
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  trial is set for next year. I believe it's May of twenty twenty four
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  is when the federal trial is due to proceed. But again, this officer
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  redacted his guilty plea and opted for I'm sorry, redacted is not guilty and
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  opted for guilty. Please, so let's see. Here was a response.
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  Hey, Sissy Cable, I love you so so y'all, welcome back to
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  another episode of Black Girl interrupted. Again, this is not going to be
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  a very long episode. I just wanted to jump on and bring y'all the
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  Tyree Nichols case updates for those that are just tuning in. One of the
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  five police officers, Desmond Mills Junior, has redacted his not guilty flea in
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  the federal charges and has entered a plea of guilty. Again, prosecution is
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  recommending fifth teen years. But ultimately, y'all, it is up to the
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  judge of how much time he will serve. Federals the criminal trial. I
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  believe they are set to reconvene this month, and of course I will definitely
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  bring y'all all the updates my peers that are heavily following this trial, who
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  are there in Memphis that are been to the courtroom again. Of course,
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  they were in the courtroom today for the federal and they said they really feel
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  like there's no empathy. Again. They really feel like Desmond Mills Junior only
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  did this because I believe they believe he was gonna get more of the time
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  because of what he did, because of the fact that he took pictures.
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  He took photographs as Tyree Nichols laid their dying in the street and sent these
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  pictures. Out of six or seven people, I believe two our affiliate with
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  the Memphis Police Department, and I believe the other four were not. So
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  I believe that is why Desmond Mills did what he did. Again, for
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  those tuning in, I'm gonna go ahead and roll back the video, but
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  I'm also gonna roll the video after to the family's response. So here we
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  go, and y'all drop in the comments. Let me know what do you
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  think. Do you really feel like Desmond Mills really had to change your heart?
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  Do you really believe he's sorry for what he did the Tyree Nichols,
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  or do you feel like he's doing this because this was at the advice of
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  his attorneys. So y'all let me know. I'm gonna go ahead and roll
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  the video and then we'll just jump right on back into it. This is
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  a man who watched this video with me and the next words out of his
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  mouth were, oh my god, this could have been my brother. Breaking
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  news, a change of heart resulting in a change of plea. Today,
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  former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills Junior officially pled guilty to federal charges filed against
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  him and the beating death of Tyrene Nichols. The decision is part of a
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  plea deal. Thank you for joining us. I'm April Thompson, him,
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  Alex Coleman. Wrig's Ashley Paul was inside the courtroom and today Ashley breaks it
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  down for us, Ashley, Alex April. The prosecution is asking for up
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  to fifteen years in prison in prison in exchange for Desmond Mills Junior's full cooperation
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  in all investigations involving the beating death of Tyrene Nichols. But Mills's attorney says
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  this isn't just about a change of plea, but also about a clearer conscience.
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  My use of force was excessive on mister Nichols, and I did make
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  misleading statements. These words spoken by defendant and former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills
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  Junior, as he officially switched to a guilty plea in federal court today.
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  The exceptional empathy that he's had from the beginning of this is what's driving this
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  plea. Mister Mills is somebody who understands he's something wrong and he's taking responsibility
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  for Cameras weren't allowed in the courtroom, but Judge Mark Norris explained with the
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  plea change, Mills is now considered a fell in guilty of federal charges,
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  including using excessive force and witness tampering. The charges come with a maximum penalty
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  of life in prison, but in a plea agreement with the US Federal Court,
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  they ask for a maximum of fifteen years in exchange for his cooperation in
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  the federal, State and Department of Justice investigations. He is fully cooperating,
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  and we expect him to continue to fully cooperate, answering all questions truthfully testifying
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  to his role in the incident and what he saw the other defendants commit at
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  the same incident. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Moulroy, also president in court
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  today. He tells us this agreement is part of a global settlement including the
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  US Attorney's Office, the DA's office, and Mills. We have agreed,
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  as part of that global settlement that we will also accept a plea guilty to
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  comparable state charges from mister Mills, and that we will agree to make a
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  similar recommendation for a fifteen year sentence. And as Mills listen to what his
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  next decades may look like, his attorney explained to us he's relieved. That's
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  why he charged with a crime, because he failed to act in a way
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  that he knows he should have acted. But immediately upon understanding that he's begun
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  to cooperate, and today is the first step in publicly taking responsibility. Now
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  the judge will have the ultimate say in the sentence, saying that hearing is
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  tentatively scheduled for May twenty second. Now coming up at five, we'll hear
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  from the family of Tyrene Nichols about this decision. But for now, reporting
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  live downtown, I'm Ashley Paul WRG News Channel three. Honestly feel like he
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  had to change your heart. Do you really feel like maybe he's empathetic,
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  maybe he's really truly sorry about what he did, or do you feel like
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  he did this at the advice of his attorney because of what he was facing.
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  So again, he will remain free on bond until the federal trial,
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  which will reconvene May twenty second of twenty twenty four. So he will remain
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  free again. I'm just gonna be very honest with you, and again these
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  are my opinions and only in my opinions alone. I do not feel like
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  mister Mills is sorry. I'm sorry. Okay Again, I'm gonna reiterate this
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  again. Desmond Mills Junior, this is not his first incident with violating someone's
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  rights. Prior to miss the Mills becoming a Memphis police officer, he was,
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  uh, oh, can y'all hear me? Oh? Oh, can
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  y'all hear me? Let me know? Can y'all hear me? I don't
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  know what's going I can hear me, y'all let me know? Can you
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  hear me? So? Okay, So Desmond Mills back in there. I
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  want to say, like twenty ten, maybe I might have to go back
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  and pull that information again. But Desmond Mills Junior was accused of beating an
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  inmate to the point where the inmate passed out, but because the inmate did
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  not show up, it was charges filed against Desmond Mills and the another person
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  that worked for Memphis Police Department. But unfortunately those charges were dropped because they
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  said the person that had filed this lawsuit didn't show up. It was just
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  a whole bunch of foolery. So this is not Desmond Mills Junior first time.
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  This is just the first time. Now he has to own up for
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  what he's done. Okay, this is what he has. He has to
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  own up for this. Like Okay, so Nat says his attorney told him
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  to do it. I agree with you. I really feel like his attorney
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  told him this was gonna be the best thing for him. Because again,
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  you I want you guys to understand, Desmond Mills Junior is the officer that
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  took the photos of Tyree Nichols after they brutally beat him. Okay, this
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  is this officer that sent these pictures out after they were taken to sit to
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  seven people, two of which worked for Memphis Police Department, and the other
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  four we're not even affiliated with the police department. Okay. So I feel
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  like he stood to stand to get more time because of him taking the photos.
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  And you'll see him at the end of the video where he kicks Tyree
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  Nichols in the face. I believe this is why. I believe at the
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  advice of his attorney, they told him take this please do I think that
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  the judge will sendence him to fifteen years, although he's going to cooperate.
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  In other words, you're gonna flip on your counterparts. I believe he'll get
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  more than fifteen years federally. Okay. So again, y'all, we are
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  speaking federally. We're not speaking on the criminal side, because on the criminal
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  side they are facing life in prison. Okay. So I'm gonna give my
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  honest opinion. The way things are looking and this judge that is presiding over
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  the criminal case, I believe they will end up getting life in prison,
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  whether it's forty years, fifty years, that's almost like because they're they're in
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  there, some of them in their late twenties, early thirties. So if
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  your sentence the fifty years. That's life, you might as well say,
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  because if you ever get out, you'll be in your eighties, late seventies,
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  early eighties, So you might as well say that's life in prison.
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  Plus you have to factor in the federal charges that you have to serve as
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  well, so that's like a life sentence. But I'm just gonna be honest
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  with you. I really just don't feel like he feels bad. I just
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  feel like he knew it got reached to him in that courtroom, and that's
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  what made him redact his not guilty flea and go for the guilty flee on
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  the federal. So Natalie says, he just may snitch then kill himself in
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  jail. I don't think he will do it. I believe the inmates in
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  there will do it, but it all depends on where they send them.
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  You know, they may do them like they did the three gentlemen that uh
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  were convicted in the murder of Ahmad Aubery, who were who are serving their
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  time federal. They may do it that way, but they're they're in life.
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  They're in prison for life. So but the family did respond. Benjamin
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  Crump, who was the attorney for the family of Tyree Nichols as well as
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  the mother. Uh, they spoke and the let me know what you think.
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  I just you know, as a mother, I'm gonna say this and
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  that I'm gonna roll the clip. As a mother, I feel like he
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  took the coward way out. I think you should hold up for your time.
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  I wouldn't accept that. Please the I'm just being honest. So this
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  is what the mother had to see, and you let me know your thoughts
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  in the comments. We begin tonight with breaking news at five, a precedent
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  that some believe will change policing as we know it. The reaction coming after
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  a former Memphis police officer accepts a plea agreement in the beating death of Tyrene
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  Nichols. Good evening and thank you for joining us. I'm Greg Hurst.
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  Hi, I'm Stephanie Skurlock. In return for possibly getting a shorter sentence,
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  the officer has agreed to fully cooperate with officials in the federal, state and
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  Department of Justice investigations, which could mean testifying against the other four officers involved.
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  To berrg's Ashley Paul spoke with Attorney Ben Crump and Tyree Nichols family,
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  and Ashley what did they have to say after this announcement. They were emotional,
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  Stephan Greg. They sat in the courtroom and listened to a detailed description
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  of the night Tyrene Nichols was beaten and ultimately died. But they say that
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  that was worth it for someone to finally be held accountable, for one of
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  the officers to plead guilty today. I never would have expected this, Rodney
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  Wells says, today is the first of what the family hopes will be a
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  number of courtroom victories in the case of his step son, Tyrene Nichols.
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  We are very, very pleased with the outcome of today today Deathmond Mills Junior,
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  one of the five officers charged in Nichols's death, accepted a plea deal
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  in federal court. The former Memphis police officer is now officially guilty of using
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  excessive force and witness tampering in the beating death of Nichols. I'm hoping that
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  mister Mills it was his conscience that allowed him to make this plea agreement,
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  and not because of his lawyers telling him it was the right thing to do.
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  The charges come with a maximum penalty of life in prison, but in
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  a plea agreement with the US federal court. They're asking for a maximum of
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  fifteen years in exchange for Mills's cooperation in the federal, State and Department of
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  Justice investigation. But despite the shorter sentence, attorneys representing Nichols's family say the
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  admission of guilt and the accountability are a huge win. This pleaar agreement,
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  him getting the reduction of time at least guarantees we believe that all of them
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  are going to serve time. Attorney Ben Crump thinks this is just the first
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  domino to fall in bringing justice for Tyree, and he says this is a
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  victory not just in this case, but nationwide. That's what we're talking about.
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  The precedent that's being set now where police officers tell the truth, even
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  if that mean Pierson, the Blue Veil, how the Dodge will have the
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  ultimate say in Mills's sentence. That hearing is tentatively scheduled for May twenty second.
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  For now reporting live downtown. I'm Ashley Paul w News Channel three.
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  Again, I just don't feel like it was a change. I don't know,
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  I don't know. Maybe I need to sit on this and maybe process
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  this a little bit more, But I honestly, just I don't feel like
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  it was a change. I think it just got real and you know,
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  you're going to prison. And again, I believe at the advice of his
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  attorneys, they felt like this was the best thing for him. I just
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  don't. I don't know. Maybe it's just something in my spirit. I
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  don't know, it's just something in my heart. I just don't feel like
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  this was a decision he came to on his own. I just I just
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  and I know some people feel like, yes, this, you know,
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  I just don't feel like this was the decision that he sat down and said,
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  you know what, I'm gonna do this. I just, honestly,
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  Natalie, I'm gonna agree. I'm definitely gonna lean with you again and say,
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  I believe this was at the advice of his attorneys. I just don't
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  believe that this man who has brutally beaten another person prior to Tyrene Nichols,
• 29:33
  now all of a sudden it's I just want to play guilty and and I'll
• 29:37
  cooperate. I just don't feel like you made that decision on your own.
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  Again, some people may say he did. I just don't. I just
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  don't. And maybe the more I comb over this case and maybe take the
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  emotions part out of it. I may still feel the same way, though,
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  because again, I just do not feel like you did this on your
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  own. I feel like this was the at the advice of your attorney.
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  I feel like your attorney swayed you and said, Hey, we're gonna lose.
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  You're gonna do this. Go ahead and take this please. That's how
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  I feel. You know, y'all let me know once the show is over.
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  Dropping the comments, y'all, let me know. How do y'all feel
• 30:26
  about this? Do you feel like he's sorry about this? But maybe if
• 30:37
  I give you a little more background, maybe you'll understand why. I really
• 30:42
  feel like he's not sorry about this. I think he's sorry that he's got
• 30:49
  he got caught. I think that's the problem. Again. I really feel
• 30:56
  like at the advice of his attorneys, that they told him to do this.
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  Hey, you might want to go ahead and rethink this is not guilty,
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  because if they find you guilty, it's gonna be you know what I'm
• 31:11
  saying That that's the conversation I feel like was had. So now it says
• 31:15
  he has no remorse and doesn't care about another's life. He probably had a
• 31:18
  messed up life growing up. Possibly, I just don't believe that he said,
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  Oh God, that could have been my brother. You didn't, So
• 31:30
  let me say this before I end this life. So after watching what you've
• 31:38
  done, now all of a sudden, this could have been your brother.
• 31:42
  You weren't thinking about your brother in the moment every time your betime hit mister
• 31:51
  Tyree Nichols's body. You didn't think about your brother when you lie and said
• 32:01
  that he was Tyrie Nichols was acting erratic. Were you thinking about your brother?
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  Then? First off, you are a cocky ass police officer. Okay,
• 32:15
  let me go ahead and put that out there, because again, I'm
• 32:19
  working very closely with people to bring you all these updates that is very well
• 32:23
  affiliated not only with these officers, but with this trial that's going on.
• 32:30
  And the description that they described to me about Desmond Mills is he's a very
• 32:34
  cocky, arrogant asshole. He looks like that. And for the fact to
• 32:45
  be that you took photos as this young man lay there dying, you took
• 32:55
  pictures and you sent these out. So I want you guys to do do
• 33:02
  not forget that. Okay, you took these pictures, and you sent these
• 33:10
  pictures out to people. Does that sound like someone who, Oh, my
• 33:17
  god, that could have been my brother. Do you think that sounds like
• 33:21
  anybody that was thinking about their brother in that moment. Absolutely not for you
• 33:28
  to brutalize this man in the manner that you did. I pray that whatever
• 33:37
  sentence you get, I hope you are never able to sleep peacefully another day
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  as long as you breathe this air, because you are free, as well
• 33:52
  as your four counterparts. This young man, his family has to go see
• 34:00
  him in a cemetery. No, I'm so sorry, and an urn.
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  Your family can come to the prisons to see you. You're spending the holidays
• 34:14
  with your family this year. Tyree Nichols is not. I don't care what
• 34:23
  Tyree Nichols did prior to this. I don't care what his background is.
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  I don't care what his history is. It did not warrant a death sentence
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  for this young man. Okay, So he smoked a little weed. Who
• 34:44
  doesn't He was a father, he was a brother, he was a son,
• 34:53
  he was a cousin, he was someone's loved one. And every person
• 35:00
  that was complicit in this, you all need to be held accountable, not
• 35:09
  just these five police officers the EMTs. Well, let me change the first
• 35:19
  responders that sat out there and laughed and joked as y'all talked about the super
• 35:29
  Bowl while this young man laid in the street dying. The fact that you
• 35:38
  lied to this young man's mother sickening to me. I have no respect for
• 35:53
  those five officers and the other parties involved. I hope Tyrene Nichols haunts y'all
• 36:04
  the rest of your life. This was so unnecessary, and that captain miss
• 36:20
  CJ. I hope y'all terminate her. For those that are not familiar with
• 36:29
  CJ, you might want to do some research on her background because she had
• 36:34
  a scorpion unit in Atlanta that failed. This was the same woman that covered
• 36:43
  up for her partner's husband who was arrested for sleeping with minors. This is
• 36:59
  also the same officer that was responsible for the murder of ninety two year old
• 37:08
  Catherine Johnston in Atlanta. Okay, you were fired by the Atlanta Police Department
• 37:17
  and then they brought you back. You left Atlanta, went to North Carolina.
• 37:24
  You left North Carolina, now you're in Memphis. You had the scorpion
• 37:30
  unit in Memphis and the Red Dogs in Atlanta. Both of those failed.
• 37:38
  I do not believe she needs to be in the law at all. Too
• 37:45
  many things have happened on your watch, Miss cg. Too many things,
• 37:53
  and I cannot believe you are still employed. People have been hurt and killed
• 38:01
  on your watch. Your job needs to be lost to You need to be
• 38:07
  on trial too, because you are the overseer of the Scorpion unit. You
• 38:15
  were the overseer, You're the one that put this together, so you're just
• 38:20
  as complicit as them. And the fact that these officers had marks on their
• 38:27
  records speaks volumes to the family of Tyree Nichols. I'm gonna say this,
• 38:36
  like I've been telling y'all, I love y'all. My heart and my prayers
• 38:43
  are with you as you, guys embark on this next journey, and that
• 38:47
  is the justice and the unfathomly murder of your son. Again. I'm not
• 39:00
  holding this space very long because I have I have a another space I have
• 39:06
  to go in with regards to this case as well. But I wanna know
• 39:12
  your thoughts. How do you feel. I'm gonna say this and I'm bringing
• 39:20
  this to a close. Let me take a deep breath. All these police
• 39:36
  officers need to be held accountable. For the ones that stand by and you
• 39:45
  watch your fellow officers brutalized people of color, male or female, and you
• 39:53
  don't say anything, You're just as guilty. What does this mean for other
• 40:05
  officers? Will we start getting accountability? Will justice start being served for these
• 40:15
  families that are brutalized and murdered at the hands of the same people that are
• 40:21
  supposed to protect and serve. Will this change the trajectory of it? I
• 40:32
  don't believe so, But only time we'll tell, We'll see. But again,
• 40:43
  y'all, I'm again I'm not holding this space too long. Again.
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  Thank y'all for jumping on with me tonight. Thank y'all for always loving and
• 40:52
  supporting on your girl. Again, I wanted to jump in and bring y'all
• 40:55
  the breaking news with regards to the Tyrone Nicole case. I will definitely keep
• 41:01
  y'all posted as things come along again. They're supposed to reconvene on the criminal
• 41:07
  side this month. I'm not sure of the date. I know it's November,
• 41:10
  I know it's coming soon, but I will definitely keep you guys updated.
• 41:15
  Let you guys know what's going on with the case again, don't forget
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• 41:31
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• 41:43
  note, I love you guys. Happy Thursday. I hope everyone has a
• 41:46
  great and beautiful weekend. Please continue to stay safe and I will see y'all
• 41:51
  Tuesday night, same time, same place, and we get messy next week.
• 41:57
  Love y'all, Good night. All. Ain't gott to go home,
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  but y'all got to get up out of here though, because I got to
• 42:02
  go See yo later