five officers who were primarily responsible for the death of tyre nichols and who were on the scene. now, as to everybody else, it s going to take some time as we do that investigation. but i assure you the investigation is ongoing. yeah, poppy, we know this investigation is moving quickly. we have seen it for ourselves. we also know this afternoon there plans to be another family news conference where ben crump and some others will be talking about other cases involving this scorpion team. this entire city remains watching this, very focused on how this investigation moves forward, and as you know, people are digging in to the background of this entire scorpion unit that s been disbanded to see what else they can unearth about what s happened to other people. thank you very much for the reporting. next hour, don will be joined to speak one on one with tyre nichols brother, jamal, he ll be here next hour. there s a new development in
fired rockets from the gaza strip. in recent months, amid rising violence, they have been repeated international calls for calm here. but they have had little impact, and now, once again, fears are growing of wider unrest. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. police chiefs in the us city of memphis have announced plans to disband the unit whose officers are accused of killing the black motorist tyre nichols. it comes after a video was released showing five black policemen from the scorpion team beating the 29 year old during a traffic stop earlier this month. the officers have been sacked and charged with murder. the welsh rugby union chief executive steve phillips is set to leave his role. he was facing criticism following a bbc investigation which raised allegations of sexism and racism in welsh rugby s governing body. mr phillips had initially vowed to continue in the role but is now understood to have changed his mind after growing calls for him to step down.
armed forces say they were acting on intelligence to prevent islamic jihad fighters carrying out major attacks. in response, palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip. in recent months, amid rising violence, they have been repeated international calls for calm here. but they have had little impact and now, once again, fears are growing of wider unrest. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. police chiefs in the us city of memphis have announced plans to disband the unit whose officers are accused of killing the black motorist tyre nichols. it comes after a video was released showing five black policemen from the scorpion team beating the 29 year old during a traffic stop earlier this month. the officers have been sacked and charged with murder. the welsh rugby union chief executive steve phillips is set to leave his role. he was facing criticism following a bbc investigation which raised allegations
implemented a scorpion team which is a saturation team. so i am sure that their families look to the police to make sure that they were always safe. this did not occur. let s talk about the importance of the body camera footage, along with the addition that mounted surveillance video as well that we saw right? i remember being on the air sitting in the anchor chair and asking, as to when there was going to be requirements of officers having body cameras on their person? but talk about how incredibly important it is in the story and so many others in this incident, this tragedy to have this type of video to show this country and the world what took place? yes so it s ironic that the use of body camera videos were a, maybe not direct but a result of the beating of rodney
getting guns and unregistered weapons off the streets. these are not regular because. they are not supposed to be doing traffic-related stops. that is frankly seen by officers who do that work asper needs them. so there is going to be a question here of why this group involved in the scorpion unit would have stopped tyre in the first place. especially since we don t see evidence, at least in the video that is available at this time, of tyrants nichols committing any kind of. crime so asked people grieve, much of that community is gonna be in services tomorrow on sunday. i think you are going to see that focus really shift toward the culture in the police department here and what s really happening on the scorpion team, lindsey. antonia hylton, thank you. joining me now is van turner. the president of the memphis branch of the naacp. van, you and i have talked several times this week. i would just like to hear how you are feeling and what your reaction is to this video just released l