MEMPHIS, Tenn. — New videos released of the traffic stop that led to Tyre Nichols’ death show different angles of the response and reaction after the beating.

But they don’t answer a lot of questions — like why Nichols was stopped by police in the first place.

Now-former MPD officer Demetrius Haley’s body camera captured officers re-hashing what happened last January,  the night a traffic stop ended with the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols.

Throughout the footage the city released Tuesday, you hear officers trying to justify their actions, like why they pulled over Nichols in the first place.

Haley says Nichols drove into oncoming traffic. Officers tried to get him to stop by hitting the siren

“That man drove around swerving like he is going to hit my car,” he said.

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In another body-worn camera video, Officer Preston Hemphill, who isn’t criminally charged but was there for the initial stop, presented a slightly different story, saying the original traffic stop was for speeding.

Despite those claims, in the hours of traffic, SkyCop and business surveillance footage released Tuesday, we haven’t seen that.

In fact, we have yet to find any video that explains why Nichols was stopped.

Officers also claimed Nichols tried to grab one of their guns. We also haven’t found any video of that yet.

The officers who pulled Nichols over that night were part of an organized team focused on crime suppression, known as the SCORPION Unit.

Members of that same unit were caught on an in-car camera, heard on the phone questioning the outcome that night — especially when it became clear Nichols didn’t have any warrants.

And despite repeated claims of Nichols being high, his autopsy report only detected a small amount of THC in his system.  

Nichols’ mother said neither drugs nor the reckless driving was mentioned when officers knocked on her door. They just told her that her son was tased, arrested for a DUI and is in the hospital.

Video of that interaction, if there is any, wasn’t released Tuesday.

Former officer Tadarrius Bean, who is one of the officers charged in Nichols’ death, rode in the ambulance that night to St. Francis Hospital, where Nichols died three days later.

Interim Police Chief CJ Davis has said she’s seen no evidence to support reckless driving allegations.

Nichols’ family attorney says the video just released shows no justification for the officers brutal and inhumane actions.