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JOPLIN, Mo. — Just after 5 p.m. Monday a Joplin Patrol officer near the 2100 block of South Connecticut performed a routine vehicle stop for traffic violations.

>> the scene, very frantic, the officers located ashley fallis somewhere in the home. >> the local police took charge. they asked brian spencer to watch the front of the property. and that's when his post on the front porch, he saw, tom. that's him in the background in the white t-shirt. >> he was pacing around in the front yard and front sidewalk area, frantic, screaming. >> screaming what, do you remember? >> i heard him say, she is dead. a lot of mumbled stuff. he would put his hands up over his face and screaming and crying. >> by this time, ashley's parents had pulled off the road home to...

Was a plain-clothes unit that was used to aggressively fight crime and memphis and we know other police departments across the country used these specialized units and so now the department of justice is looking at units across the country. the practices and how these officers conduct these stops and what they do and the training is obviously going to be significant. what we're waiting for, erica, is the video in memphis that the city is expecting to release this afternoon and it will be 20 additional hours of video on top of what we have seen and the violent nature of the car stop and then th...

>> we should note next week marks the anniversary of breonna taylor's death as well. tomorrow the department of justice also announced a new investigation into the memphis police department. this one is rooted in the january beating death of tyre nichols. >> cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz joins us now. what more will the doj be investigating with this now? >> so use of force policy, deescalation policies, looking at some of what the training is, what were officers told to do in cases of use of force and deescalation. and so this all comes obviously after the tyre nichol...

Now and in the days and weeks to come. nick beake, bbc news, in southern turkey. lots more on this situation on turkey and syria on the bbc news website of course. returning to some other news now. several people have been hit and injured after a truck mounted a pavement in new york city. police have said that at least 4 people were hurt with one person being taken to hospital with critical injuries after the u haul delivery truck collided with pedestrians in the bay ridge area of brooklyn. the driver was detained by police who say that he was attempting to avoid a car stop. the incident is no...