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i'm jessica dean in washington, d.c. in today for fredicka whitfield. a major move by the memphis police department. less than 24 hours after the release of the video showing the brutal building of tyre nichols, the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit will be disbanded. this move coming after nichols' family and protesters around the country demanded the unit be dissolved. cnn's isabelle rosales has more on these developments. what are you learning? >> reporter: the police chief cerelyn davis, in a statement she put out, talking about how it was disbanded, she touted the quality work of this unit....

The tactics have been called into question by the nichols family and the attorneys saying they drive around in unmarked cars and sometimes were unnecessarily aggressive especially to black people in the community. attorney ben crump says the deactivation of this unit, this is a positive step forward but the beating of tyre nichols, this goes beyond the individual officers and their color. take a listen. >> as responsible as those five officers were for killing tyre nichols and that rep henrehensi conduct we saw on that video, we feel this is the culture of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. community and so...