Anticrime Unit News Today

john berman will be joining you along with don lemon. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is hard to say good evening tonight, having seen the video footage authorities in memphis made public just a short time ago. im john berman here in new york. >> and in memphis, im don lemon. we appreciate you joining us for our special coverage. today, tyre nichols mom asked me a very simple question about her sons deadly encounter with police three weeks ago this weekend as a matter of fac...

Long stretch of time. and it takes them so long to finally take him to the hospital. that part, for me -- any hope for tyre nichols to survive, to live that day, they were the ones, perhaps. and yet again, we have another instance here of people in a position to help someone whos in need of help. >> and they didnt help. >> they didnt help. >> but by the time the emts get there, the officers on the scene had a duty of care. >> but listen, this is a highly specialized unit, which is under scrutiny...

Theres no drivers license and you have a high quality work full-time with no markings whatsoever. so if that e weapon is recovered by law enforcement and a homicide, they have no idea what that gun is. i mean who it belongs to and what atf does is we push out tracing technology to state and local and other federal departments an yoment to follow that gun and see who the last retail purchaser and that provides for law enforcement to try to solve the crime with a ghost gun you -- im sorry -- lawre...

Anticrime unit has ceased 1800 guns. but if you look at shooting victims theyre up by 9.3%. the shooting are still up by 8.4 so i guess my question is go after tools all day but criminals seem to still be getting them so what is this going to do, sir? >> well, youre exactly right that -- the weapon is the tool. what you really need to do is you need to actually prosecute people and that is consistently been a problem. so if you recover the firearm, and you have a good case on somebody if you can...

Shootings happening every single day. this is why we believe in broken window. the mayor doesnt believe in it. he believes last time when he got on the morning so he said he didnt believe in broken window. he also said that this new unit thats out there to get anti-crime, he says its not an anticrime unit, its antigun. now he was on new york news from this morning saying they captured about 1800 guns. as you can see, just because you get the two of the criminal uses doesnt mean the criminals are...

Covid-related. and if eric adams does not clean new york city, we are in trouble. i mean, rapes are up. murders are up. crime is up throughout. all of the city. you cant ride the subway. you cant ride and walk safely in the street. cant go to a cafe or restaurant anywhere and feel safe. we are back to the 1970s and 1980s. he doesnt have any other choice than to clean up new york city. if he doesnt. we are going to be living in a mess of, you know, of a city. >> carley: without a doubt. president...