The prosecutor who broke the mold with the Tyre Nichols case

Steve Mulroy, the Shelby county district attorney, discusses the swift charges on the five officers and criminal justice reform in Memphis

Steve Mulroy had been the Shelby county district attorney for just over 100 days when five Memphis police officers beat and killed Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.

As the case began to get more and more attention, Mulroy, a Democrat, did something surprising. In high-profile police killings, prosecutors and police are slow to release video while they investigate. Criminal charges against the police officers, if they're filed at all, come much later.