Tyre Nichols' death in January led Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland to move quickly to release video to the public while not compromising investigations
The Columbus Dispatch
Davis had concerns over the incident because of the extreme injuries Nichols had suffered and that officers had waited until the next day to inform her, Strickland told a conference room of about 75 officials Saturday afternoon at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Criminal and Social Justice Standing Committee Saturday at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. And there was video — lots of it — of how the traffic stop had unfolded and escalated.
"And had he not done that the most important video would not have been captured," Strickland said."It shows you the importance of video in these instances, because had you not , we may not have known what happened.""A lot of different emotions," Strickland told The Dispatch in an interview following his presentation, concerning his immediate reaction to viewing the graphic footage.
Strickland said he decided immediately that, however this investigation into the officers' actions was to unfold, it was going to happen quickly and transparently. It wouldn't be a repeat of past police Internal Affairs investigations, that had operated largely in secret and could drag on for months or longer."That's not good enough," he told the group.
On the tenth day, internal departmental charges were filed, and the city was ready to publicly release the video. But there was also an ongoing criminal investigation against the officers, and state investigators who had taken over the probe lobbied that releasing the video could compromise those cases, Strickland said.
"The criminal investigators in general, at least in Tennessee, do not want video released because it may affect their investigation — actual witnesses' recollections, or people who claim to be witnesses," Strickland said in the interview.
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