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(NewsNation) — Authorities Friday released body camera footage of Tyre Nichols’ arrest, which showed five Memphis police officers beating the 29-year-old Black FedEx driver as he called out for his mother during an arrest earlier this month.

The officers, all of whom are Black, were charged Thursday with murder and other crimes in the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after the Jan. 7 altercation with the officers that occurred during a traffic stop.

The officers involved, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith, were fired last Friday for the use of excessive force or failure to intervene and render aid.

The Memphis Police Department released four videos of the arrest: three from body-worn cameras and one from a street surveillance camera.

The videos show the officers repeatedly kicking, punching and beating Nichols as they yelled “give me your (expletive) hands” while they attempted to place Nichols in handcuffs. Officers had chased Nichols through Memphis streets after he ran from them during the initial traffic stop, where they pulled him from his car and tried to subdue him on the ground.

Throughout the beating, Nichols screams and cries out for his mother as police use pepper spray and stun guns on him. At points, he says “alright” and signals that he has given up, but officers continue to attempt to place his hands behind his back.

At one point, while Nichols is standing in the street with officers holding him, another officer punches him repeatedly in the face. At least two officers are seen kicking or stomping him in the head as he lay on the ground.

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis described the officers’ actions as “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” and said Friday that her department has been unable to substantiate the reckless driving allegation that prompted the stop.

The city of Memphis put out a statement Wednesday saying it will fully cooperate with the investigation.

Nichols’ family members viewed the video Monday. In a news conference Friday, his family said they want the specialized police unit known as the Scorpion Squad disbanded. The officers involved in the altercation were part of that unit.

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The city of Memphis released graphic video footage on Friday of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with murder in his beating death after a traffic stop earlier this month.

One video clip shows officers dragging Nichols from the driver’s seat of his car as he yells, “Damn, I didn’t do anything … I am just trying to go home,” and force him to the ground as they order him to lay on his stomach, then squirt him in the face with pepper spray.

Nichols breaks free, scrambles to his feet and sprints off down a road with officers in pursuit, firing stun guns at him.

A separate video shows a subsequent struggle after officers catch up with Nichols again, and are beating him. Two officers are seen holding him down as a third one kicks him and a fourth delivers blows with what appears to be a rod before another punches Nichols.

The four segments of highly anticipated footage from police body-worn and dashboard cameras were posted online Friday evening a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression.

The officers, all Black, had already been dismissed from the police department last Saturday following their Jan. 7 confrontation with Nichols after pulling him over.

He succumbed to his injuries and died three days later while hospitalized.

Memphis police chief Cerelyn Davis and lawyers for Nichols’ family who watched the video with his relatives before it was released, warned in advance that the images were brutal and likely to cause outrage, while appealing to the public for calm.

“You are going to see acts that defy humanity,” Davis told CNN in describing the footage.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Nichols’ family, said the last words on the video were Nichols crying out for his mother.

“No mother should go through what I am going through right now, no mother, to lose their child to the violent way that I lost my child,” Tyre Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, said on Friday.

The footage was likely to transform Nichols, the father of a 4-year-old described as an affable, accomplished skateboarder who recently enrolled in a photography class, into the next face of the U.S. racial justice movement.

Raised in Sacramento, California, Nichols moved before the coronavirus pandemic to the Memphis area, where he lived with his mother and stepfather and worked at FedEx, taking a break each day to come home for a meal prepared by his mother.

Nichols’ family and President Joe Biden have appealed for protests to stay peaceful in Memphis, a city of 628,000 where nearly 65% of residents are Black. Schools were scheduled to close early and Saturday morning events were canceled.

Biden spoke with RowVaughn Wells and Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, on Friday afternoon to express his condolences, the White House said, adding that it was coordinating with relevant government agencies in case protests turn violent.

Nichols’ death marked the latest high-profile instance of police officers accused of using excessive force in the deaths of Black people and other minorities in recent years. These have been publicly condemned as systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Protests under the banner of the “Black Lives Matter” movement against racial injustice erupted globally following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes.

Antonio Romanucci, another lawyer for Nichols’ family, told National Public Radio in an interview on Friday that Nichols was a strong supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and “basically died for his own cause.”

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday announced a federal civil rights investigation into Nichols’ death, while law enforcement agencies in some major cities, including New York, Atlanta and Washington, said they were preparing for possible protests following the video’s release.

The White House said it held a conference call with mayors from several cities to brief them on federal preparations for the anticipated release of the footage and asked the mayor to remain in regular contact in the coming days.

Police have described the circumstances of Nichols’ arrest in vague terms. Even Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, who sought the officers’ indictment, was circumspect when announcing the charges.

After Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, “an altercation” ensued in which officers doused him with pepper spray, and Nichols tried to flee on foot, Mulroy said. “There was another altercation at a nearby location at which the serious injuries were experienced by Mr. Nichols.”

Davis said her department has not yet been able determine whether there was probable cause for the officers to pull Nichols over for reckless driving, a traffic stop which set in motion the violent events that followed.

Crump said the speed at which the criminal charges were brought against the officers – fewer than three weeks after Nichols’ death – should be a standard for police-involved killings.

In some other high-profile cases, such as the police killing of Laquan McDonald in Chicago in 2014, more than a year elapsed before the release of police video and the filing of charges.

“We want to proclaim that this is the blueprint going forward for any time any officers, whether they be Black or white, will be held accountable,” Crump said. “No longer can you tell us we got to wait six months to a year.”

Lawyers for the family also called on the police department to disband the special SCORPION unit focused on violent street crime to which at least some of the officers were assigned. Davis has said the department will review SCORPION and other specialized units.

Crump compared the encounter to the 1991 videotaped beating of Black motorist Rodney King by four police officers whose subsequent acquittal of criminal charges sparked days of riots in Los Angeles.

All five officers – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith – were fired from the police force on Jan. 21 after an internal investigation found they breached multiple department policies, including use of excessive force.

Four of the officers have posted bail and have been released from jail, a CBS affiliate reported on Friday. A lawyer for Mills, Blake Ballin, said it might be another two weeks before the defendants make their initial court appearances.

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The city of Memphis on Friday released video of the police traffic stop and beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. Five police officers have been fired and charged with second-degree murder in his death.

Here is a timeline of events.

Jan. 7: Officers pull over Nichols on suspicion of reckless driving around 8:30 p.m. Police said in a statement that a confrontation ensued, Nichols fled on foot, was pursued by officers and another confrontation occurred. Afterward, Nichols “complained of having a shortness of breath,” the statement said. An ambulance was called and Nichols taken to hospital.

Jan. 8: Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy requests the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to conduct a use-of-force investigation surrounding the arrest, the bureau announced less than 24 hours after the incident. Memphis is in Shelby County.

Jan. 10: Nichols “succumbed to his injuries,” the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.

Jan. 14: Nichols’ family holds a memorial event at which they display a photograph of Nichols that shows him intubated and his face badly beaten, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. A subsequent protest takes place at a police precinct.

Jan. 16: The family retains civil rights attorney Ben Crump, known for representing families in some of the United States’ most fraught cases including those of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd. Crump immediately calls for the release of video from the Nichols encounter captured by police body and vehicle dashboard cameras.

Jan. 20: The Memphis Police Department fires the five officers involved.

Jan. 23: Crump and Nichols’ family view the police video. Crump later says it reminded him of the video of the beating of Rodney King.

Jan. 24: The city of Memphis announced two fire fighters involved in the incident were relieved of duty pending an internal investigation.

Jan. 25: Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis releases a video statement calling the treatment of Nichols “failing of basic humanity.”

Jan. 26: The five officers are charged with second-degree murder.

Jan. 27: Police video of the incident is released to the public.

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Hopefully, the end of Donald Trump is near. Geoff Duncan, who is Georgia’s former lieutenant governor, is now a CNN commentator. He said today that Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, “has enough evidence to indict” Donald Trump. Duncan is another “never Trumper” Republican and was loudly vocal against Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Duncan chose not to run for reelection, leaving the office open to be secured by Trump lackey Burt Jones. Duncan left the office, but he continues to oppose the election deniers in his party.

Fani Willis has asked Judge Robert McBurney to keep the grand jury report under seal. According to Atlanta News First, Willis wants “all future defendants to be treated fairly” because “decisions on indictments are imminent.” Due to that request, the report should absolutely remain under seal until a second grand jury is ready to hand down indictments. WRDW-TV, however, wrote that Judge McBurney “continues to mull over” whether to make the report public. What’s to “mull over?” It is not a good idea to release the report until the prosecution is ready to make a move, one way or the other.

Trump, meanwhile, is still claiming that the investigation is “a political witch hunt” and also claims that his calls to Brad Raffensperger were “perfect.” He claimed his interference in Ukraine was “perfect” as well, and we know that turned out to be an attempt at blackmail. Listen, Trump thinks everything he does is perfect, and this situation is no different, but according to Raw Story, Trump is “clearly agitated” because of Willis’s announcement that indictments are imminent. Raw Story’s piece is based on MSNBC’s Steve Benen’s comments that Trump’s “hysterical tirades” prove that he is worried. Trump, as usual, tries to turn attention away from himself by pointing to other issues, and in this instance, he decided to complain about crime rates in Atlanta. As Benen pointed out, Trump is merely trying to imply that Willis’s attention would be better focused on her city. Trump misses the point that he is also committed a crime in Atlanta and that Willis is, in fact, focusing on crime in her city. Trump is crying out for help, and no one is coming. He made his bed; it’s past time for him to lie in it. Trump’s Atlanta attorneys-Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg of Findling Law and Jennifer Little with Jennifer Little Law-tweeted their “assumption” that Trump didn’t violate Georgia law because he was never called to testify. If they truly believe that statement, those are three attorneys you should never hire. It’s all PR. They and Trump all know he is guilty as hell.

Testifying before the House Select Committee, Raffensperger told the committee that Trump’s claims of election fraud were false. In fact, Raffensperger told the committee that the 2020 election “went remarkably smooth” and that Georgia “had a successful election.” Yet, Trump called him to ask him to “find” enough votes to give Trump the victory. The fact that Trump broke election laws in Georgia is clear. He must be indicted.

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• Authorities released footage Friday evening showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols on January 7.
• The five officers involved in the beating have since been fired and charged with murder.
• Memphis and other major US cities braced for protests and widespread outrage on Friday.

Content note: This story describes police brutality, death, and contains graphic videos.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — The Memphis Police Department released footage Friday evening showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols, with Memphis and other major US cities bracing for protests and civil unrest.

The footage, from police body cameras and stationary cameras, was released on the department’s Vimeo page.

“You guys are really doing a lot right now,” Nichols is heard saying to the officers at the start of the video. “I’m just trying to go home.”

The beating occurred during a traffic stop in Memphis’ Hickory Hill neighborhood on January 7. Nichols, who was 29, died of his injuries three days later. Authorities said Nichols had been stopped by the officers and accused of reckless driving, but Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn J. Davis has since said the department has not found proof to substantiate the reckless driving allegation.

Memphis officials and others with access to the video had warned the public of the gruesome nature of the footage in advance of its release on Friday.

The director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation called the video “absolutely appalling.” Davis, the Memphis police chief, said what he saw “heinous, reckless, and inhumane.” And an attorney representing Nichols’ family said the officers beat Nichols like “a human piñata.”

Nichols’ family pleaded for peaceful protests at a press conference earlier on Friday.

The five police officers seen in the footage were fired from the Memphis Police Department and later charged with second-degree murder. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith also face charges of kidnapping, official misconduct, and oppression. 

All five officers were booked into the Shelby County jail on Thursday and have since been released on bond.

Prior to the video release, protesters were already gathering at Martyr Park in the city’s downtown. They said they weren’t waiting for the videos to reveal what happened because they already knew enough.

On social media, some chose to counteract the expected brutality of the footage with images they said were from Nichols’ life. One poster wrote that before the body cam video “inevitably goes viral, I want to amplify THIS video of Tyre LIVING his best life” accompanied by a clip of man on on his skateboard.

This breaking news story will be updated.

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• Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said managers should not be rewarded for creating larger teams. 
• Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn’t think a structure of “just managers managing managers” is ideal.
• Meta’s chief product officer Chris Cox has discussed the need to “flatten” the management structure, Command Line said. 

Managers managing managers managing managers managing managers…

There’s a corporate tongue-twister if there ever was one. 

According to the Command Line newsletter, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said he’s not a fan of all those layers of management. 

“I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work,” Zuckerberg reportedly said during an internal Q&A session in late January, according to Command Line. 

Earlier in January, the company’s chief product officer Chris Cox reportedly wrote a post on Meta’s communication platform Workplace about the need to “flatten” the company’s organizational structure, Command Line reported. 

Command Line’s writer Alex Heath thinks it all implies that “more layoffs are coming.”

In November 2022, Meta announced that it was laying off more than 11,000 people, in one of the biggest staff cuts in the company’s history. 

Meta is among the slew of tech giants that have been drastically downsizing their workforces over the past several months, like Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The mass layoffs have left many in the tech industry panicked  uncertain about the future of the industry. 

Meta did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for a comment. 

Are you a Meta employee or someone else with insight to share? Contact Lakshmi Varanasi at lvaranasi@insider.com, on the secure-messaging app Signal at 262-408-1907, or through Twitter DM at @lsvaranasi. Reach out using a nonwork device.

Happy Saturday, team. I’m Phil Rosen. As you could guess from this newsletter, a big part of my job involves speaking to top experts in markets and economics. 

I’m always looking to speak with Wall Street strategists, energy analysts, investment bankers, and everyone in between. 

Know anyone who you think I should meet? Tweet me or email me (prosen@insider.com) — and, of course, tell your friends to sign up for 10 Things Before The Opening Bell!

Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Fiona Greig of Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. 

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Fiona Greig, global head of investor research and policy for Vanguard

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Fiona Greig is the global head of investor research and policy for Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. 

Phil Rosen: Part of your expertise lies in behavioral trends among investors. What are you observing there to start 2023?

Fiona Greig: In general, when it comes to retail investors, we’re just seeing fewer people trading in general. It’s also true in retirement accounts. 

This suggests a “stay the course” posture, meaning yes there’s been volatility, but the longer term outlook they have for the stock market is stable. So unless they have a particular need to liquidate or pull out, investors are really staying the course, and I think that’s good news.

The Fed has signaled rates will keep rising, which in theory should weigh on markets — yet we’ve seen stocks rally. What’s going on here? 

FG: One way to read this is that rate hikes are priced in. Look at December’s rate hike, it was a non-event in markets. That suggests to me that markets are expecting a moderation strategy for the Fed. 

There’s some lower expectations for stock market returns in the short term, but we see pretty clear expectations and optimism for returns in the next 12 months, and even 10 years.

What trends should investors be cautious of, or capitalize on, in the current landscape?

FG: I would say it’s a bad idea to pull out just because markets are having a bad day. Investors have to accept volatility, and can’t get skittish. So I’d advocate for staying in positions for the time being. 

Then, I would make sure to take advantage right now of employer-sponsored retirement plans. Increase your savings rate. People have the opportunity now to start investing and allocating funds, and should think about moving money into the market in a balanced way at a low cost. 

Here are the full insights with Vanguard’s Fiona Greig.

What do you think of Greig’s outlook for investors this year? Tweet me @philrosenn, or email me prosen@insider.com.

And here are the top stories from markets this week: 

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1. A veteran investment chief is expecting stocks to crash in 2023. He explained that the “perfect bull market cocktail” of the last four decades is about to come to a halt — which means valuations for some of the most popular names could be set to tumble.

2. The top-performing stock-picker of 2022 recommended buying these six stocks right now. This batch of names are his favorites that can protect against high inflation, low profits, and a long-term energy shortage. See the full list.

3. ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, has doubled in value since 2021. Not to mention the $10 billion investment from Microsoft, the language bot has gone viral for its ability to answer messages on dating apps and dole out investment tips. It was even a hot topic among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

4. The stock market is about to be flipped upside down by an inflation rebound, Bank of America warned, pointing to higher commodity prices stemming from China’s reopening and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. That means secular trends that dominated the market over the last decade will be reversed.

5. Ray Dalio slammed the debt ceiling this week. The billionaire investor compared the politicians who support raising it to binge-drinking alcoholics. In his words: “We all know that there is no real debt limit because what is called a debt limit never actually limits the debt.”

6. Sam Bankman-Fried held $50 million in a tiny rural Washington-state bank. Strangely, the firm had only three employees and specialized in agricultural loans to farmers before he invested in it. Later on, Bankman-Fried’s trading firm, Alameda Research, took a stake in the bank and rebranded it as “Moonstone.”

7. Credit Suisse’s stock chief said investors are piling into all the wrong sectors as they anticipate a recession. In his view, you don’t need to hold defensive stocks if there’s no recession, a scenario he believes is becoming more likely. Here are three areas of the market that he recommends that will deliver the best returns.

8. Morningstar is bullish on these 10 cheap, high-quality stocks. The firm’s strategists said these companies pay out a healthy dividend and can offset stock market losses in a slow-growth economic landscape. Get the stocks here.

9. Russian oil trade remains on solid footing despite sanctions and a price cap, according to an analyst from Kpler. Moscow’s energy revenues may not have been hit as badly as some estimates may suggest, in large part because Asian customers including India and China have kept buying crude. Here’s what else to know.

10. Anthony Scaramucci said he put in a $10 million investment in FTX’s native cryptocurrency and received only $400,000 back. The SkyBridge Capital investor backed the crypto exchange’s token after receiving $45 million in funding from FTX. Yet, Scaramucci said he remains bullish on crypto even though he got burned.

Curated by Phil Rosen in New York. Feedback or tips? Tweet @philrosenn or email prosen@insider.com

Edited by Max Adams (@maxradams) in New York.

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• Jennifer Coolidge has many comedic moments in her latest film “Shotgun Wedding.”
• While Coolidge has been iconic for decades, she’s only just receiving her flowers.
• Insider has compiled a list of all her iconic moments on-screen and in real life.

Coolidge is best known for her role as Paulette in “Legally Blonde.”

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Jennifer Coolidge’s most popular role is Paulette Bonafonté, a manicurist who befriends the lead character Elle (Reese Witherspoon) in “Legally Blonde.” Her performance in the movie and its sequel features several iconic moments that are still quoted today, including “I’m taking the dog, dumbass!” and “the bend and snap! I did that last night naked. I broke a window though.”

The most popular Paulette quote, and one of the most memorable quotes from the franchise, is in the sequel “Legally Blonde: Red, White and Blonde.”

After seeing Elle in her all-American outfit, Paulette says: “You look like the Fourth of July! Makes me want a hot dog real bad!”

Coolidge has said in interviews that this quote gets said to her all the time.

 

Viewers applauded her appearance in “2 Broke Girls.”Jennifer Coolidge in “2 Broke Girls.”

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If’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be applauded every time you enter a room, just ask Coolidge. In between her early 2000s success and her 2020s renaissance, Coolidge’s most popular gig was playing a wealthy neighbor named Sophie in “2 Broke Girls.” 

After joining the cast of the sitcom in season one, Coolidge received rounds of applause almost every time she made a dramatic entrance, which happened quite a lot in the show’s six seasons.

While this was a running joke for the show, I like to view it as a sign of respect for the underrated comedy actress.

Coolidge stole the show with her performance in “A Cinderella Story.”Jennifer Coolidge in “A Cinderella Story.”

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Over the last decade, social media has breathed new life into many underrated film scenes. That is the case for Coolidge’s performance as the evil stepmother in “A Cinderella Story,” a modern retelling of the classic fairytale.

In one particular scene, the stepmother tells the lead character Samantha (Hilary Duff), the film’s version of Cinderella, that she’s not allowed to go to her school’s Halloween dance.

After they argue, the stepmother comically ends the conversation by saying: “You’re not very pretty, and you’re not very bright. I’m so glad we had that talk.”

This is all done while Coolidge is wearing incredibly tiny goggles. In 2021, as Coolidge’s fame began to rise again, this scene went viral on TikTok and even received a remix with Gwen Stefani’s “Sweet Escape.”

Jennifer Coolidge has been very candid about how “American Pie” improved her sex life.Jennifer Coolidge landed her breakout role as Stifler’s mom in “American Pie.”

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Last year, Coolidge made headlines for talking about how much “sexual action” she got after starring in “American Pie.”

Jeanine Stifler is one of the most renowned roles of her career, and it is where Coolidge received the title of MILF as she plays a mother who has a fling with her son’s classmate.

When asked about her thoughts on the title, the 60-year-old actress told Variety: “I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from ‘American Pie.’ There were so many benefits to doing that movie. I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with.”

Over three months after the interview took place, Coolidge clarified that this comment was a joke.

She told Entertainment Weekly in December: “I did say that jokingly and, God, you really can’t make jokes in our town, because I did make the terrible mistake of saying, ‘Thank God for that movie, I got to sleep with 200 men,’ or whatever. And, look, I would love to say that was true, but I mean, that was sort of an exaggeration — so I’m glad you’re asking me.”

The “American Pie” actress did note that the role opened up “the world to a much broader group of handsome men — and younger men” before recounting an awkward experience, involving a guy, his mother, and a hair salon recommendation.

It’s pretty cool that Coolidge is so open about her sex life, making her all the more relatable to fans.

Jennifer Coolidge’s performance of “Best in Show” received a Halloween tribute from Ariana Grande last year.Ariana Grande imitates Jennifer Coolidge’s performance in “Best in Show” for Halloween.

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Paying homage to an artist’s work is probably the biggest sign that they’ve achieved icon status. With that in mind, pop phenom Ariana Grande has recreated Coolidge’s greatest hits not once, but twice.

The first time, a moment that Coolidge credits for relaunching her career, occurred in Grande’s 2018 music video “Thank U, Next,” in which the “Scream Queens” star recreated the nail salon scenes in “Legally Blonde.” Coolidge actually reprised her role as Paulette in the music video.

Then last year, Grande reacquainted her younger fans with Coolidge’s filmography once again. For Halloween, Grande and her “Victorious” co-star Elizabeth Gillies recreated scenes from the 2000 mockumentary “Best In Show,” starring Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Eugene Levy, and Catherine O’Hara. In the videos, Grande does an impression of Coolidge’s character Sherri Ann Cabot and the resemblance is uncanny.

Coolidge herself commented on the post: “This is f***ing great. I was gonna go as the young boy’s pet weasel from “The Watcher” but now I think I’m gonna go as @arianagrande’s dog Toulouse.”

 

One of Jennifer Coolidge’s lines in “The White Lotus” season two has been turned into a meme.Jennifer Coolidge in “The White Lotus.”

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While the Coolidge renaissance began with Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video, the actor’s performance in “The White Lotus” cemented her revival.

Coolidge stars in the first two seasons of the anthology series as a rich, lonely, middle-aged white woman named Tanya McQuoid. While Coolidge has had many great scenes in the show, the most viral one is in the season two finale where she claims “Please! These gays — They’re trying to murder me.”

The scene has already been memorialized with fans turning it into memes, merchandise, and even remixed into a song.

Jennifer Coolidge started dancing when the Emmys tried to play her off stage.Jennifer Coolidge accepting the award for oustasnding supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for her role in “The White Lotus.”

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Over the last two years, Coolidge has finally received critical recognition during award season. 

When she was awarded the Emmy award for outstanding supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie last year for her role in the first season of “The White Lotus,” she struggled to give her speech within the time constraints.

However, instead of stopping when the music began to play her off stage, Coolidge protested and continued her speech. The music then switched to a jazzy arrangement of “Hit the Road Jack,” at which point Coolidge began to sway her hips and dance in time with the music.

This clip went viral and was a classy way to handle being played off-stage.

 

Coolidge gave the most chaotic speech after winning her first Golden Globe earlier this year.Jennifer Coolidge at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards.

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Coolidge also won her first Golden Globe earlier this month for her performance in “The White Lotus.”

After accepting the award for best supporting actor, Coolidge gave an epic gratitude speech that was a bit all over the place. In the speech, she tries to thank the people she wasn’t able to thank during her Emmys speech, griping that she had been forced off the stage.

“But I just want to say, I hope my agent at UTA and Tiffany [Kuzon], you all forgive me because the hook came out at the last thing I got an award at,” She said. “This giant hook, and I thought it left when vaudeville ended, and this hook came and took me off the stage at the Emmys.”

The speech was funny, inspiring, and also one of the most memorable moments of the night.

 

Jennifer Coolidge uses a machine gun in “Shotgun Wedding.”Jennifer Coolidge with a machine gun in “Shotgun Wedding.”

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In “Shotgun Wedding,” which premiered this week, Coolidge stars as Carol, a slightly overbearing and oversharing mother of the groom (Josh Duhamel). When the trailer of the new action rom-com came out, Coolidge immediately stood out for one reason: she was using a machine gun.

In the epic scene, Coolidge lets it rip on the pirates trying to destroy her son’s wedding. It may be one of the best scenes of the entire movie because of the bizarreness of Coolidge handling such a weapon.

Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck in the head during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year.

The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from Paul Pelosi, 82, and lunge toward him with the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of the camera’s view and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.

Pelosi, apparently unconscious, can be seen lying face down on the floor in his pajama top and underwear. Officials later said he woke up in a pool of his own blood.

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The release comes after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associated Press, sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office had refused to make the exhibits available to journalists.

A state court judge Wednesday ruled there was no reason to keep the video secret.

The evidence includes portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call on Oct. 28, as well as video from a Capitol police surveillance camera, a body camera worn by one of the two police officers who arrived first at the house and a nearly 18-minute audio recording from DePape’s interview with police.

The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass-panel door shortly after 2 a.m., leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. He set the items down and pulled out a hammer, pausing to put on gloves, and used it to smash the door glass so he could step through an opening.

DePape has pleaded not guilty in ongoing state and federal cases. He is being jailed without bail. He faces charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official.

San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Adam Lipson, who represents DePape and had opposed the evidence’s release in a court filing, called the video’s release a “terrible mistake” in a statement Friday.

“The footage is inflammatory and could feed unfounded theories about this case, and we are extremely concerned about Mr. DePape’s ability to get a fair trial,” Lipson said.

Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats in the two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

During the Jan. 6 attack, rioters chanted menacingly for the speaker as they rampaged through the halls trying to halt certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election. One man was convicted this week of eight criminal counts after he put his feet on a desk in Pelosi’s office and left a note to her punctuated with a sexist expletive.

Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple’s home when DePape — who was 42 at the time, roughly half Pelosi’s age — broke in. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington at the time and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members.

After DePape confronted Paul Pelosi in his bedroom, Pelosi tried to make it to an elevator in the home to reach a phone, but DePape blocked his way, authorities previously said. Pelosi then told DePape he had to use the restroom, where his cellphone was charging, allowing him to call 911.

Police praised an alert dispatcher for reading between the lines of Pelosi’s calm voice — and DePape’s responses in the background — and coding the call as a priority, resulting in a faster police response.

Paul Pelosi later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove to cover his wounds.

Speaking at the U.S. Capitol after the video’s release, Nancy Pelosi said her husband “is making progress but it will take more time.”

“I have not heard the 911 call. I have not heard the confession. I have not seen the break-in. And I have absolutely no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband,” she said.

San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes’ body-camera video begins with officers approaching the brick home and rapping on the door. It takes about 20 seconds for the door to open and during that time, the officers discuss whether they have the right house.

When the door opens, Paul Pelosi says, “Hi, guys, how are you?”

Both men are facing the officers at the door. Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a flashlight shows DePape holding the handle of a hammer with his right hand and clutching Pelosi’s right hand, which is gripping around the hammer head, with his left hand. The struggle is not apparent in the first few seconds.

“What’s going on, man?” the officer asks.

“Everything’s good,” DePape replies.

“Drop the hammer,” the officer says.

DePape says “umm, nope” and begins to pull the tool from Pelosi’s grip. Pelosi says, “Hey, hey.”

DePape wins control of the hammer and winds up with his right and delivers a vicious overhand blow as Pelosi disappears out of view and officers rush in. The officers called for backup as they struggled with DePape and Pelosi was lying on the ground.

In an interview with San Francisco Police Lt. Carla Hurley after he was taken into custody, DePape said he didn’t regret the attack even though it was not on Nancy Pelosi, his intended target.

Surprised to find Paul Pelosi in the home, DePape described most of their encounter as “pretty amicable,” but said he attacked him with the hammer because he was on a mission.

DePape said the attack happened very quickly and he recalled how it took the officers by surprise.

“I yank the hammer away from him, I jump into action,” he said with excitement in his voice. “They jump into action. They’re like on top of me instantly.”

DePape said he didn’t remember how many times he struck Pelosi, but said it was with “full force.”

DePape told Hurley he was going after Nancy Pelosi for lying to the American public and that he planned to hold her hostage for her crimes. He believed the discredited conspiracy that Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump.

He said he planned to hold her hostage and would “break her kneecaps” if she lied.

When Hurley asked why DePape did not leave when he realized Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home and the police were on the way, he compared himself to the Founding Fathers, explaining that he refused to surrender.

The U.S. Capitol Police investigated nearly 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier. The department faced heavy criticism in the aftermath of the attack on Paul Pelosi. The agency has access to about 1,800 cameras, including one on the couple’s house that was not being monitored during the attack because the speaker was not there.

Public officials across the U.S., from local school board members to election workers, have also endured harassment and intimidation.

This month, a former Republican candidate for a state House seat in New Mexico was arrested in a series of shootings targeting the homes or offices of elected Democratic officials and a Kansas man was convicted of threatening a GOP congressman.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden continues to condemn political violence.

“I think you don’t even need a video to know how horrific and unconscionable the attack on Paul Pelosi was, and to be very honest it’s a miracle that Paul was not more seriously injured and we are grateful that he is on his way and continues to recover,” she said Friday.

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Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.

(NewsNation) — The release of body camera footage of Tyre Nichols’ arrest is coming Friday evening, leading some to question the timing of the release.

Nichols was beaten during a traffic stop on Jan. 7 and died in police custody three days later. All five officers involved in his arrest are facing murder charges.

The bodycam video of Nichols’ arrest is expected to be released after 6 p.m. local time.

On the question of timing, Jesse Weber, legal analyst and a host on the Law & Crime Network, said, “I can understand why they’re doing it. This is going to be a very long night.”

Weber joined NewsNation’s “Rush Hour” on Friday to discuss the release of the bodycam footage, which Memphis authorities have described as “appalling” and “horrendous.”

You can watch a portion of Weber’s interview above.