Ben Crump, the civil rights lawyer representing Tyre Nichols's family, asked, 'What are national leaders going to do?'
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks at a news conference with the family of Tyre Nichols last week.
"This is such a difficult video on many levels. The fact that it happened in Memphis, Tenn., the place where Dr. Martin Luther King was slain," Crump recalled Sunday on CNN's ""When we first saw it before America saw it, we said that it's going to remind people of the Rodney King video. ... And that was a watershed moment for America. And I believe this video is a watershed moment for America.
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