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john berman will be joining you along with don lemon. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is hard to say good evening tonight, having seen the video footage authorities in memphis made public just a short time ago. i'm john berman here in new york. >> and in memphis, i'm don lemon. we appreciate you joining us for our special coverage. today, tyre nichols' mom asked me a very simple question about her son's deadly encounter with police three weeks ago this weekend as a matter of fact. that question was, where was the humanity? three days later, her son would be dead from the b...

Long stretch of time. and it takes them so long to finally take him to the hospital. that part, for me -- any hope for tyre nichols to survive, to live that day, they were the ones, perhaps. and yet again, we have another instance here of people in a position to help someone who's in need of help. >> and they didn't help. >> they didn't help. >> but by the time the emts get there, the officers on the scene had a duty of care. >> but listen, this is a highly specialized unit, which is under scrutiny right now. and you have some reporting on that. >> right. the scorpion unit. this is this anticr...

There's no drivers license and you have a high quality work full-time with no markings whatsoever. so if that e weapon is recovered by law enforcement and a homicide, they have no idea what that gun is. i mean who it belongs to and what atf does is we push out tracing technology to state and local and other federal departments an yoment to follow that gun and see who the last retail purchaser and that provides for law enforcement to try to solve the crime with a ghost gun you -- i'm sorry -- lawrence: i have a limited time with you. for a lot of people and myself included it seems like there's...

Anticrime unit has ceased 1800 guns. but if you look at shooting victims they're up by 9.3%. the shooting are still up by 8.4 so i guess my question is go after tools all day but criminals seem to still be getting them so what is this going to do, sir? >> well, you're exactly right that -- the weapon is the tool. what you really need to do is you need to actually prosecute people and that is consistently been a problem. so if you recover the firearm, and you have a good case on somebody if you cannot get them prosecuted and lock them up, you're not going to do anything. really all of the ghost...

Shootings happening every single day. this is why we believe in broken window. the mayor doesn't believe in it. he believes last time when he got on the morning so he said he didn't believe in broken window. he also said that this new unit that's out there to get anti-crime, he says it's not an anticrime unit, its antigun. now he was on new york news from this morning saying they captured about 1800 guns. as you can see, just because you get the two of the criminal uses doesn't mean the criminals are going to be out on the street. another thing, he said things are getting better. while murders...