- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening, everyone. and barcodes in d.c. and don lemon is in memphis. we were watching you this morning, you started the day out with the police chief. here you are ending it with me in memphis. tell me what has transpired today that has really been something you will not forget. reporter: it has been a remarkable day, quite frankly remarkable 24 hours. yesterday, we got the charges for the police officers and now we woke up to the interview, very candid interview from the police chief. i was surprised gave an interview. considering the district attorney announced those charges, i think she felt confident it was her time to speak because she did not want to get in the way of the investigation. very candid about why she believes the charges were fair. she knew they would be strong charges. she does not
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number one, it goes to the homicide charge. it has to be knowing killing of a person, murder two, second degree murder in tennessee. failure to render aid for that amount of time is something prosecutors will bring up in context trying to prove that charge. in that federal civil rights investigation van teeth a couple moments ago the justice department is looking into, number one, looking at each of the individual officers and their failure to render aid. or intervene. right. not talking about you and i sat here in silence for a minute, it would be painful. 23 minutes is a very long time. and the whole notion of a pattern of practice investigation, investigate, is there something systemic in memphis without police officers are trained. a lot of tools law enforcement
locke, and this is with a police department that is currently under federal investigation from the department of justice. you ll recall that last april, attorney general merrick garland announced a pattern of practice investigation to look into excessive uses of force by the minneapolis police department. we need to understand where this case sits within that investigation, the status of that investigation to ensure that this is moving as swiftly as possible to get this particular police department under scrutiny and to have changes and reforms implemented so that we do not witness yet another tragedy. but at the same time, we have to reimagine this entire concept of the public safety in this country women saw that minneapolis voters wanted to do that last year when they put in place a referendum to switch some of the obligations that currently reside with police to the department of public safety. that was a very bold move.