Police beating of Tyre Nichols 'brutal' and 'inexcusable': NAACP

• 2 years ago
• Radio
• Duration 7:01

Bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols' fatal arrest will be released to the public on Friday evening. His family says the footage shows five police officers viciously beating the 29-year-old Memphis FedEx worker for three minutes. Van Turner, the president of the Memphis Branch of the NAACP and a candidate for mayor, spoke to As It Happens host Nil Köksal about his country's latest high-profile instance of police brutality.