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- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but dont know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening, everyone. and barcodes in d.c. and don lemon is in memphis. we were watching you this morning, you started the day out with the police chief. here you are ending it with me in memphis. tell me what has transpired today that has really been something you will not forget. >> reporter: it has been a remarkab...

The social justice group More2 is renewing its call for a federal civil rights investigation of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department.

Number one, it goes to the homicide charge. it has to be knowing killing of a person, murder two, second degree murder in tennessee. failure to render aid for that amount of time is something prosecutors will bring up in context trying to prove that charge. in that federal civil rights investigation van teeth a couple moments ago the justice department is looking into, number one, looking at each of the individual officers and their failure to render aid. >> or intervene. >> right. not talking a...

Locke, and this is with a police department that is currently under federal investigation from the department of justice. youll recall that last april, attorney general merrick garland announced a pattern of practice investigation to look into excessive uses of force by the minneapolis police department. we need to understand where this case sits within that investigation, the status of that investigation to ensure that this is moving as swiftly as possible to get this particular police departme...

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Investigation into a police department in new york joining the list of practice investigation. this investigation focuses on violations of how officers treat citizens. the same story in minneapolis following the death of george floyd and louisville following the death of breonna taylor. >> when law enforcement you dont have their back side, they will find another job. moral is low. they dont feel they are receiving support from the justice department. >> they insist they are helping out as much ...

Professionalism and courtesy, the experience that individuals have when they encounter police officers. what do you hear from police officers themselves about this? >> i am hearing a fascinating story from law enforcement in this country as part of my six-city community policing tour. ive chosen cities specifically that have had negative interactions or relationships between the police and the community, and have come out on the other side. theyve had a police shooting, similar to recent ones. t...

Staten island. one case after another. baltimore. it just seems as though the country has seen one eruption after another. what can law enforcement, what can you do to try to ease the fears, the concerns of people on both sides of the divide? >> well, i think there is a divide unfortunately. but i think one of the things thats coming out of this divide is a discussion into why it exists. because once we start talking about why it exists and frankly, acknowledging that it exists, we can start to ...

>> i dont know, i dont know enough about it. again this is not unusual, theyve tried to search every little fine thing they could find and put it out there and say, judge, we dont want her to be involved in this case. what they need to do is go back and say, you know this is the fop and others we support her. she decided the father daughter of two police officers you know shes somebody who has always proven to be a fair person. let her do her job. if the officers are innocent theyll be found inn...

Work both through collaborative reform and past investigations, other cities can look at their own environments and decide what issues that they see and whether or not some of the work done in the past can be brought to bear, as well. >> will the department release any findings that folks have found in a review? >> the information is going to be folded into the pattern of practice investigation. typically, however, when we do a collaborative reform effort with the police department that usually ...