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It was created by the chief back in 2021, november 2021, to really crack down on a surge of crime and to target violent areas in memphis, with a focus on things like homicides, robberies, assaults, and otherfulness. now, nichols attorneys -- the familys attorney says they would go around in unmarked cars and were sometimes unnecessarily aggressive, especially to people of color. we did hear from attorney benjamin crump this morning. he spoke with cnn and he did, however, tout the quick firing an...

Of police than many of our white brothers and sisters have in their community. and this video illustrates that its this culture that says it doesnt matter whether the police officers are black, hispanic or white, that it is somehow allowed for you to trample on the constitutional rights of certain citizens, from certain ethnicities and certain communities, and we have to have a larger conversation about this, dana bash. >> and i think were going to start -- we already are starting to do that. an...

In the puerto rican community, particularly, theres an enormous sense of pride that i have gotten as far as ive gotten. i would have gotten farther... which is my deepest regret. ..had it not been for the fact that im hispanic. i would have had a different career, i know it. ive always felt that i was a good actress and that i had it in me to do... thats why i did theatre, because in theatre i could play almost any part — and i have. and it still hurts that i was robbed. because very often i g...

Youve won the presidential medal of freedom. presidential medal, or ive got a bunch of those. i wonder if you ever think about your legacy, rita. i dont know if youre the sort of person who thinks. hmm, i wonder what people. how people might remember me. what? how youd like them to remember you. do you ever think about. i dont think of how i would like people to remember. i never even think about that. i would imagine that in the puerto rican community, particularly. theres an enormous sense of ...

Talking this way and acting this way with the cameras around, what does that say to you? >> it was heinous. it meant there is a culture, this institutionalized police culture which says whether youre a black, hispanic or white officer, that you can engage in excessive use of force against persons of color and get away with it. we dont see our white brothers and sisters who are unarmed have this level of excessive force levelled against them. how many videos of young unarmed black men have we see...

This is unjust. we need to see swift justice and swift action in those instances also. >> its or anything of what you want to say? >> this is institutional please culture. it does not matter if the police are black, hispanic, or white. there is some innuendo, some on written rules. there is a person of a particular ethnicity. you can engage in excessive force against him. we need to use this opportunity to have this conversation. it is this culture that killed tyre nichols just as much as the po...

In 2022, the Birmingham Police Department began noticing a scary trend, an unprecedented number of robberies targeting the Hispanic Community.

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Hashtags, don lemon, i have to keep talking to you on cnn, week after every other week about yet another unarmed black person has been killed by police in a highly controversial manner. hopefully this institution al police is saying its okay to engage in excessive force against black and brown people will finally be del with. we wont continue to try to say that, oh, its training. they can de-escalate just fine when its white citizens. we see that all the time. but its when its black and brown ci...

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