Tyre Nichols: Bodycam footage released by city of Memphis
Warning: this video contains graphic footage. Viewer discretion is advised.
On Friday, the city of Memphis released bodycam footage showing the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols by five law enforcement officers on Jan. 7. Nichols was pronounced dead on Jan. 10, and the officers were subsequently terminated and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and other crimes related to Nichols’s death.
Video Transcript
- Fuck you, motherfucker.
- [INAUDIBLE] motherfucking hand.
- You're gonna get your ass blown the fuck up.
- Get the fuck out out of the car. Get the fuck out the fucking car!
- Damn. I can't do anything! Hey-- Hey! I didn't--
- Turn your ass around.
- All right. All right. All right. All right.
- On the ground. On the ground. On the ground.
- All right. All right. All right. All right.
- Hey! No! You don't do that. OK?
- Get on the fucking ground! Get on the ground! Raise your hands. Raise them!
- All right.
- Freeze!
- I'm on the ground. Turn around!
- I'm on the ground.
- Lay down!
- Yes, sir.
- Back up. Back up.
- Please--
- Get on the ground!
- OK!
- I'm going to taze you!
- Hey--
- Get on the ground!
- Stop.
- Right now! One-- now.
- OK. Stop. All right. OK. All right.
- --break your shit.
- OK, dude. Dang.
- Turn the fuck around.
- I-- Put your fucking hands behind your back. Bitch, put your hands behind your back before I break them.
- OK--
- Oh. I'm gonna knock your ass the fuck out.
- OK. You guys are really doing a lot right now.
- Bro, lay down.
- Stop! I'm just trying to go home.
- Lay down!
- Man, if you don't lay down.
- I am on the ground!
- Put your hands behind your--
- --on your stomach!
- I'll spray him. I'll spray him.
- I am, please.
- I've got it here.
- Spray him. Spray him. Oh. OK.
- Stop! I'm not doing anything!
[GRUNT]
- Taze him! Taze him!
- Fuck.
- Freeze!
Ugh, shit. OK.
- What are you doing?
- Shut the fuck up!
- I ain't do--
- --wipe your. Hey.
- Give me your hand. Give me your hand. Give me your hand.
- You want to get sprayed again?
- Hey. Hey.
- Hey, Mike, give him--
- Hey!
[MOAN]
- Watch out! Watch out!
- Watch out!
[SCREAM]
[MOAN]
- Give him your hands.
- (SCREAMING) Mom! Mom!
- Hey.
- Give me your hands. Give me-- OK. All right, all right.
- Give me your fucking hands. Give me your--
- Fuck. All right. OK. All right.
- Who the fuck cares.
- Huh?
- It hurts.
- Does it?
- Give me your hands, bro.
- Hey!
- Give me them please.
- What's up? Spray your ass again.
- All right. Give me your hands, bro.
- Watch out.
- Spraying.
- All right.
- Give me your hands, bro.
- Oh, shit!
- All right.
- Oh, shit.
- (SCREAMING) Mom!
- Give me your fucking hands.
- Bro.
- Mike, left! Mike, left!
- Got it, [INAUDIBLE].
- Shit!
- All right?
[GROAN]
[PAINED MOANS]
- Give me your fuck--
- --if anyone has [INAUDIBLE].
- Stop resisting and give me your motherfucking hands.
- Watch out. I'm gonna [INAUDIBLE] the fuck outta you. He's a fucking ass!
- Dude, hit him!
- Hit him!
- Watch out! What the-- Give it here! Give us your hands! Give us your hands!
- Same location. Ross and Castlegate, off Castlegate.
- Hit him!
- Watch out.
- Give me your fucking hands.
- Mom.
- Oh, fuck. Give me your hands!
[MOANING]
- Give me your fucking hands!
[SLURRED SPEECH] Give me your hands, motherfucker!
- (SLURRED) All right. All right.
- Give me your hands!
- (SLURRED) All right!
- We are here.
- Right here!
- Where? 2930 Castlegate--
- Mike--
- --and Bear--
- --repeat that Mike
- --street. You can get here from Ross and Castlegate.
[PAINED GROANS]
- [? Mark, ?] made me call and explain myself.
- Me too!
- Tased them and we--
- She-- Hey! Can you get my car, please?
- Unfortunately, [? we ?] [? gotta take in ?] [? another cop. ?]
- Fuck. Fuck.
- Yeah. You gotta be--
- I seen him.
- Man.
- He turned around.
- --taze him? [INAUDIBLE] he took the [INAUDIBLE], snatched him up on his [INAUDIBLE] run. Yeah. Yeah.
- Fuck, man.
- Yeah.
- Yeah I was [? starting it. ?]
- Oh, that shit hit it off.
- I ain't come out straight like that if somebody's not injured.
- Yeah, I'm good.
- Oh. Fuck.
- I ain't gonna get-- look. Ike, we got him outta the collars?
- Oh. Hey, bro. You good?
- But for the swarm--
- Wow. He almost hit me.
- Then he-- he reached for my gun. We slammed him to the car.
- Yeah.
- He literally had his hand on my gun. Like, that mother was on there.
- Shit. Fuck me, man.
- I don't know what that about. Aint [INAUDIBLE].
- HR tomorrow.
- [? My and ?] that motherfucker so bad.
- Hold on a second.
- There you go.
- That's terrific. That's more than-- Got more to know.
- These cops calling it hot.
- That's what it is.
- Hello, Hello.
- Oh.
- What's up, man?
- Jail. Um. I'm in jail. Uh--
[STAMMERING]
- I'll trying to get you straight, man, if we can.
- You can't go nowhere. You can't go nowhere. You can't go anywhere. You can't go nowhere, man. You can't go nowhere. You can't go nowhere. He's [INAUDIBLE] man.
I don't know what the fuck your shitting me, bro. I messed up.
- Bruh.
- Normally, all three [INAUDIBLE] right now.
