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police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos we re about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground. more footage appears to show inaction by deputies and officers and paramedics on the scene. five officers are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. two sheriff s deputies at the scene were placed on leave pending an investigation and cnn s shimon prokupecz is live. we ll talk about the horrific video in just a moment, but we do have new breaking news, information coming in this afternoon, and that is that the memphis police departme ....
that valona today was his 94th birthday, he dedicated his life to make sure that this nation s founding ideals and principles applied equally to african americans. and as a nation honors in this holiday weekend we are reminded just how far we ve come and how far we still have to go. the country remains deeply divided on many important, issues of factor flecked it by the new congress. in their first full week as a majority in the house republican zeroed a in the last week, republicans have been given a free path to a theater e. you are under cut to the draconian budget plan that will lead to, cuts to, medicare and social security. even though it might seem like we are headed for two years of unrelenting chaos, we should heed the message doctor king delivered. the now peoples overwork and how to creation culture with the mines turn to me now is the chair, neutral, of the congressional black caucus. hum. on the foot traffic gun was completely eroded? made no mist ....
Americans, of all americans, rest and hang in the balance. Absolutely. And thank you both for those remarkable words and to fight still today is almost as if we have fallen back. And, rev, youre going to be having President Biden on your Radio Show today. Give us a preview. Hes going to call in this afternoon at 3 00 on my syndicated Radio Show and talk about the legacy of dr. King as he see its and how the election fits in. He was our speaker last year as president at this same breakfast. And then i flew back to new york to do my Radio Show. I think its interesting were having the Iowa Caucus on Martin Luther King holiday. And how race became a part of it because o ....
Hes going to call in this afternoon at 3 00 on my syndicated Radio Show and talk about the legacy of dr. King as he sees it and the election, how it fits in. He was our speaker last year as president at this same break fast, and then i fly back to New York and well do my Radio Show. I think its interesting, though, that were having the Iowa Caucus on Martin Luther King holiday. Yeah. And how race inadvertently became a part of it because of donald trumps statements and nikki haleys around slavery. So it seems like what dr. King would always say, make three steps forward and two backward. What Martin Luther King iii and others are trying to do is move things forward ....