A public school district in Michigan will once again allow elementary school students to participate in a voluntary off-campus Bible study program that it suspended after receiving a complaint from a local secularist group.
Civil rights groups oppose identifying young suspects. They also don’t like allowing group home or juvenile detention facility employees to stand in for parents or guardians during questioning by police.
nadia romero is joining us now and what more do we know about the actions of the officer and the medics following what they came upon? reporter: well, let s talk about the medics first, they arrived on the scene, and then you see someone, tyre nichols, who is leaning up against a patrol car, not able to be up on his own, slumping over, and obviously, has an injury, and 19 minutes, 19 minutes go by, before any aid is rendered. and that is why those two emts were fired. the other allegation is that they didn t do enough, once they came on the scene, that they had this duty to act and did not, and this is important, because their licenses have been suspended, so that means they can t just go to the next county over, and just get a job, they no longer have that license. and that is a complaint that we heard from civil rights activists, for many years, that police officers, emts, when they have wrongdoings that they go to another department and they don t seem to have any kind of a reperc
accountability for police. i think this could bring us closer, we have only a need for a few more, and we have people looking at 2024 politics, making sure i do not know very well if we are going to make every effort we can, you know it, is interesting to me when i study the generation ahead of me, civil rights activists, they did not know what particular incident would trigger them getting a civil rights act of 64 to 65, just kept going until and that is what we are going to do. either one, it may not be the, one but it won t be the cause that we didn t press with all we had. reverend, thank you for being with, us reverend al sharpton, president of the national action network tuning into politics nation on msnbc today, at 5 pm, the rough will be sitting out with the family s attorney benjamin crump as well as with tyree nichols s mother and stepfather