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charged. the news coming less than 24 hours after the graphic video of nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, want to warn you, this video is disturbing to watch. mom, mom! give me your hands. give me your hand. cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. the family attorney of ben krunlp, he had a to say this morning on cnn to dana bash. what did he have to say. he told her that clearly there is a problem in america. the officers failed their oath and tyre nichols. but this beating, jim, he said, goes beyond the individuals officers and beyond their color and really going to a problem with the system, with police culture where time and time again we re seeing traffic stops ending with the death of black men at the hands of police officers. now crump also touted how quickly these officers were charged and were fired. saying that this is really a blueprint going forward across america regardless if the officer is black, white or an ....
Culture where time and time again we re seeing traffic stops ending with the death of black men at the hands of police officers. now crump also touted how quickly these officers were charged and were fired. saying that this is really a blueprint going forward across america regardless if the officer is black, white or anything in between. and he called that 1992 video of rodney king and his beating a water shed moment and also called the videos that we saw, the graphic videos here with tyre nichols, another water shed momentment but he said, the biggest question is 30 years later from rodney king, what progress has been made? and memphis, we saw the police chief disbanding that scorpion unit. what we know about it is that it is a specialized unit and it is relatively new. she created it back in november of 2021. really with a focus on addressing violent crime, addressing the surge of crime going into neighborhoods that are troubled in memphis and ....
United states senate, with senator booker and schumer and try to get the house to reengage. reporter: and jim, crump and the other family attorney said that they penned an open letter saying that the scorpion unit is not unique to memphis and calling for a national change including the doj stepping in and investigating these similar sort of units, seeing if they re effective and if not removing them. jim. all right, isabel, thank you very much. i m joined now by senior law enforcement analyst charles ramsey and cnn legal analyst joey jackson. chief, to pick up on what we were talking about, the scorpion unit is being deactivate and those who were members of the unit, but isabel said just a few moments ago this unit was put together to go after violent crime. what were they doing handling a traffic stop? that seems to be one of the out ....
Turning their numbers around. because in 2021 they actually broke records in memphis for the number of high homicides that had gone down. but despite it being relatively new, this unit, this scorpion unit comes with its own history of controversy. the tactics and police conduct have been called into question. with the attorneys of tyre nichols s family saying they would often go around in unmarked vehicles and were sometimes unnecessarily aggressive, especially to people of color. now, crump said that the deactivation of the scorpion unit, this is a positive step forward but more work clearly needs to be done at the federal level. listen. shame on us if we don t use his tragic death to finally get the george floyd justice and policing act passed. we told president biden that when he talked to us because, you know, he should marshal the ....