earlier, today before the release of that footage, nichols s family and their attorney reacted to the news that all five officers involved in his death were charged with second degree murder. those attorneys also called for the city of memphis to disband the scorpion unit. an elite police unit, that those officers were a part of. joining us now is one of those attorneys. antonio ruminate you, mister romanucci thank you for making time. tonight i know it s been a very, very busy day today. let s start with some of the new news we have the two additional officers have been released of duty, since the release of the video. i ll read the statement from the shelby county sheriff. having watched the videotape, for the first time tonight, i have concerns over two deputies, who appeared on the scene following the physical confrontation billene between police and tyre nichols. i ve had launched an internal investigation into determine what occurred. and if any policies were violated. both of
were trying to implement this stuff that s supposed to stave off behavior like. this is what s the lesson were supposed to take from that? well, they were doing some reforms, they were also creating an elite police unit. that was given the name, the scorpion. we have a problem in police culture more generally but i think sam nailed it, when he said that these units or a concentration of the worst aspects of policing. i m not gonna say that beyond these units you don t see it. but you do see, much higher incidence of them, ascension the nypd unit, that was the unit that killed abner we had a huge trial in baltimore with a gun crimes unit, surprisingly when you created a team of police officers and you tell them that their early, you tell them that their sort of pulaski of line of defense against crime, you
a ban on chokeholds, de-escalation training, they were trying to implement this stuff that s supposed to stave off behavior like. this is what s the lesson were supposed to take from that? well, they were doing some reforms, they were also creating an elite police unit. that was given the name, the scorpion. we have a problem in police culture more generally but i think sam nailed it, when he said that these units or a concentration of the worst aspects of policing. i m not gonna say that beyond these units you don t see it. but you do see, much higher incidence of them, ascension the nypd unit, that was the unit that killed abner we had a huge trial in baltimore with a gun crimes unit, surprisingly when you created a team of police officers and you tell them that their early, you tell them that their sort of pulaski of line of defense against crime, you
condition at least. the fighting made food scarce in some areas farmers have not been able to plant crops for three seasons the conflict also stopped the flow of basic supplies across the nearby angola border as the province waits for crops and trade to return the challenge aid groups are facing is enormous . unicef has only received a quarter of the ninety million it says it needs to provide assistance. in the meantime to the children of. food is a precious commodity. let s take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world seven people have been found dead on a remote farm in western australia what could be the country s worst mass shooting for decades police were called to the property outside perth where they found the bodies of four children and three articles treating the incident as a murder suicide. south africa s elite police unit has taken over the investigation