now what he deserves justice. justice for a beautiful life taken far too soon. our thoughts tonight, i will terry s family, and this community. during this unthinkable, awful time. and on that note, i wish you all a safe night. hug your kids, from all of our family, excuse, me kind of get right. from all of our colleagues, across the networks of nbc news. when nbc family. thanks for staying up late with me. a really rough night. we ll see you at the end of monday. end o monday tire nicholas wendte nine years old. his family, and friends, remember me as a great kid and a beautiful soul. he was energetic, and outgoing, he was even goofy. they had a four-year-old son and he worked the second shift at fedex returning to his mother s house briefly every night at 7 pm for us late day lunch break. tyrannically s loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm, which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding. tyrannical s family says he was pretty good. that was
that culture. quit internalizing it and do your job. we reflect the community that you came from, and do it with some integrity. you can do. it granted hansen, janai nelson, my great thanks for you for joining us tonight. that s all in for this week. alex wagner starts tonight. good evening,. alex thanks chris, thank you for joining us this evening. tyre nichols as 29 years. old his family and friends remember him as a great kid, and a beautiful soul. he was energetic an outgoing. he was even goofing. he had a four-year-old son. he worked the second ships, returning to his mother s house briefly at 7 pm for his late day lunch break. tyre nichols loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding, tyre nichols family says that he was pretty good. that was his passion, he s been skating since he was six years old. when he left around to 3:00, he was on his way to because my son every night and look at the su
nichols call on the police department to disband the unit immediately. the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended
mayor adams. so, there s this unit that are concentrations of oftentimes the officers that have some of the worst records in the entire they use forces of hirings, more likely to make complaints. more elected have lawsuits against them. in many cases, those are officers that are empowered to be in these units, that harassed community, sometimes on swat teams, that harass communities with militarized equipment. it s not just about anyone unit. you cannot blame this on anyone unit. or even those five officers individually. because this is a system, every single year the police kill more than 1100 people in this country. last, year it was the largest number of people killed by police according to our organization in public records request. articles from media, police statements. an information from state databases across the country. we found that nearly 1200 people were killed by police last year. more than three people every
nichols call on the police department to disband the unit immediately. the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended to do? , so you see this having happening in cities across the country, new york city, they had this anti gun unit, the plainclothes unit that was disbanded and reinstated on