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murdaugh. good morning, ever. it is saturday, january 28th. im amara walker. >> good morning, amara. im boris sanchez coming to you live from memphis, tennessee, where this morning the city is still reeling from the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of five, now former memphis police officers. the full video of that beating was released to the public last night and it is extremely difficult to watch. >> absolutely. and as you would imagine, that video, the series of videos ...

They elicited that they engaged in, they elicited concern in those around them for a -- prior to their attacks, i guess, in theory, its easier to address the grievances, talk to the people causing these grievances. how do you get to the point of preventing these attacks when you know someone who is very happy unhappy, lets say, at work? >> what the secret service recommends, in fact, is what we use as an agency, is a behavioral threat assessment approach. and what that means, it depends on the c...

Have observed this behavior online or in person. we need to educate -- >> right, but i think thats the difficult part for people, right. if you know, you know, people exhibiting erratic behavior, something is a little off, thats a thresh mold we dont know when we are supposed to report them and to whom. >> absolutely. and i think thats the biggest challenge. what we see in the programs, if you have multidisciplinary threat assessment programs, the context of what is happening with the individual...

Multidisciplined, meaning that you need counselors, teachers, maybe law enforcement, that all get together and analyze what is occurring so that we can kind of get our arms around that. arthel: heres what the report also said, at least 9 of the schools had threat assessment programs, in which staffers were assigned to identify potentially harmful conduct, but the secret service found that training and participation in those programs varied dramatically. so there wasnt consistency. so i mean, sho...