now what he deserves justice. justice for a beautiful life taken far too soon. our thoughts tonight, i will terry s family, and this community. during this unthinkable, awful time. and on that note, i wish you all a safe night. hug your kids, from all of our family, excuse, me kind of get right. from all of our colleagues, across the networks of nbc news. when nbc family. thanks for staying up late with me. a really rough night. we ll see you at the end of monday. end o monday tire nicholas wendte nine years old. his family, and friends, remember me as a great kid and a beautiful soul. he was energetic, and outgoing, he was even goofy. they had a four-year-old son and he worked the second shift at fedex returning to his mother s house briefly every night at 7 pm for us late day lunch break. tyrannically s loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm, which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding. tyrannical s family says he was pretty good. that was
that culture. quit internalizing it and do your job. we reflect the community that you came from, and do it with some integrity. you can do. it granted hansen, janai nelson, my great thanks for you for joining us tonight. that s all in for this week. alex wagner starts tonight. good evening,. alex thanks chris, thank you for joining us this evening. tyre nichols as 29 years. old his family and friends remember him as a great kid, and a beautiful soul. he was energetic an outgoing. he was even goofing. he had a four-year-old son. he worked the second ships, returning to his mother s house briefly at 7 pm for his late day lunch break. tyre nichols loved his mother. she said even had her name tattooed on his arm which made her proud. and he loved skateboarding, tyre nichols family says that he was pretty good. that was his passion, he s been skating since he was six years old. when he left around to 3:00, he was on his way to because my son every night and look at the su
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 think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended
cancer is culture that s affected this part of law enforcement. and again, first response. to what degree is that something that people are focusing on? i know there s a lot of attempted systemic reforms of the law enforcement. but this part of it and the ability to stand by as a fellow officer effectively leads to death. civilian, seems like a very big problem in law enforcement. well, really what it is is the paradox of law enforcement. they re there to provide protection, served the right thing, to be there for citizens when they re needed for safety purposes. but when you see them act in this contra indicated away, it does create confusion, it causes mistrust. that s why we have this imbalance between community and police because they re doing the exact opposite of what we re told are supposed to do. the end in scorpion, supposed
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 think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended to do? , so you see this having happening in cities across the country, new york city, they had this anti gun unit, the plainclothes unit that was disbanded and reinstated on