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In the incident from the newly-released footage, and it shows the officers discussing the incident, watch. >> then he went for my gun to. [inaudible] >> it's important to note here, the footage reviewed by nbc news the national any indication that nichols had reach for any of the officers weapons, and authorities also could not confirmed that claim that was made in that footage. what do you make of that, and could that tell us about a possible either defense from these officers or potential that they knew that they were being recorded and were already planting that as a defense, if you will, o...

Nichols call on the police department to disband the unit immediately. the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, -- rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you ...

And apparently they didn't value their own life the way r ow they showed up to thego upo scene. you don't go up to a a car that way. that's basict police one on polc one . and look, i agre101.e with my ta colleagues that training is anin issue within some of the policec departments right now, especially when it comesially we numbers that we have right now. >> but let's not be confused. these gentlemen were a part ofit an elite unit, the scorpions, okay, that is equivalent to newt york city's anticrim te unit. it takes grit to be on there.i s okay, i understandtand the job t they have to do, wh...

He's in police custody. there is no fighting back. he can't reach for anything, like, he is handcuffed and they are literallyjust propping his body up and beating him. you know, in america, the police kill on average three people a day. a third of people killed by a stranger in the united states actually killed by a police officer. so we remind people that this is happening way more often than people sort of understand and becomes national news and that this is a call to move beyond policing. when we think about public safety. i think there are legitimate calls to disband this police departmen...

The majority of the time. he's in police custody. there is no fighting back. he can't reach for anything, like, he is handcuffed and they are literallyjust propping his body up and beating him. you know, in america, the police kill on average three people a day. and remember, this was supposed to be the like elite unit that's dealing with serious crime. you're, like, why is the elite unit doing traffic stops? right? so the police have a 99% chance of getting away with killing people, like theyjust aren't going to get criminally prosecuted, probably not going to get fired, and they know that. s...