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Early Start With Christine Romans

camera rushing tyre nichols to the hospital where three days later he dies. boris sanchez, cnn, memphis. >> it's just awful to watch. let's bring in cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. thanks for getting up early for us. i want you to listen to what the memphis police chief said on friday. >> this is one of three teams whose primary responsibility is to reduce gun violence, to be visible in communities, we had record numbers in 2021, 346 homicides, so this unit was put together and they had great success. >> but they've disbanded it now, right? is that enough to address the issues with the police department, disbanding that so-called s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n., you know, saturation unit? >> yeah, christine, good morning to you. i think it's a significant first step. i think that any unit of police

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Early Start With Christine Romans

sure. >> reporter: also in court a crime scene investigator testifying for the prosecution pulled out paul murdaugh's bloody sneakers he was wearing the night he was killed. that was certainly a dramatic moment. that same witness also testified that alex murdaugh's home wasn't searched until september 13th, 2021. that would have been more than three months after the double murder. no doubt when the defense cross-examines that witness on monday, they will use that to continue its theme of an alleged sloppy investigation. randi kaye, cnn, walter borough. the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. police unit shut down permanently as we learn more about their controversial past on the streets of memphis. next right here, 2023 shaping up to be the year of the electric vehicle. tesla suddenly has a lot of competition. she took mucinex ine sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who's boss. mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours.

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consideration of charges but i will say this, nothing we did last thursday regarding the indictments precludes us from bringing other charges later. >> memphis police say the remaining members of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit agree with the decision to disband it. richneck elementary school in newport news, virginia, re-opens this morning more than three weeks after a first grader brought a gun to class and shot his teacher in the chest. new protocols are in place and the school principal has been reassigned. details from polo sandoval. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the school system confirms for cnn that the principal at richneck elementary school which is where that shooting took place just over three weeks ago will be reassigned to another position within the school district. she's now the third school system employee to be removed from or to step down from their post since january 6th when a sixth grader on campus shot and wounded his teacher.

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Early Start With Christine Romans

linked to the beating death of tyre nichols has been permanently disbanded by the memphis police department. city council members telling cnn this is not the first time they've heard about problems with the controversial s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. street crime division. >> i have not received complaints but my office -- me personally. but my office has and the council has, so -- but the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, i think the smart move and the mayor is correct in shutting it down. these kinds of actions clearly are not representative of the memphis police department. >> the five officers who were fired and charged with murder in nichols' death were all members of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. prosecutors insist there could be more charges coming. >> we charged them extraordinarily quickly. less than three weeks from the incident itself to the time that we brought indictments and that's really unprecedented so we're going to need time to allow the investigation to go forward and further

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CNN Newsroom

prosecution down the line. >> okay. next question, do you see any reason for the initial traffic stop? have you seen on any kind of pole cam video what tyre nichols was pulled over for? >> so, we're still looking into that as well and i think that's an important question. it's a valid question. i can tell you that the video that we have does not definitively answer that question because it doesn't pick up until the earliest chronologically the video we have doesn't pick up until after the traffic stop is is effectuated. that doesn't mean we can't find out the answer to that question from other sources and we are looking into it and that is as much as i can say right now. >> okay, about that s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit that has now been disbanded, have you learned of any other victims that have come forward? >> well, our office is not to my knowledge doing an investigation

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ail alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. a sixth officer has been let go. they won't say if preston hemphill will face charges. that footage was released with the other video. >> we have a warning because the body cam clip we are about to show is disturbing. in this video from hemphill's camera he is seen unufiring a t. >> they found him. >> martin and all them are over there chasing him. i hope they stomp his ass. i hope they stomp his ass. smith is calling for other cars. >> his lawyer says hemphill was on scene and they say he was a member of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit.

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the five former memphis officers charged with second degree murder also belong to that anti-crime unit. over the weekend it was deactivated permanently. with us is john miller, chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. so, the sixth officer now has been relieved of duty. do we expect more charges to come? >> well, he was relieved of duty, we understand, at the same time all the others were. the difference with detective hemphill as opposed to everybody else, he wasn't charged criminally and wasn't fired. he may be facing administrative charges that they're looking into now. >> so this s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, there are similar units and police departments in big and medium-sized cities, different acronym, different names. do those have to stay because of the work they're doing is necessary? i mean, they changed this one because of the obvious pr problem. what does it mean for the other departments? >> a lot of those departments are in the same position that memphis was in, which is they're being overrun by violent crime

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as to any of that, but i have heard that now since this incident has become public, there have been citizens who have raised complaints that they too had been treated with, you know, roughly or inappropriately by s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n., i'm glad to hear that the unit has been disbanded. i think we should probably take a serious look at these specialized units, both in memphis and around the country. we know from experience that sometimes when you create these special units that are supposed to swarm deploy with, you know, great vigor on crime suppression, if they're not properly trained, not properly super sized sometimes that can lead to a culture that encourages excessive force and i think that's got to be part of our broader conversation of police reform here in memphis and around the country if any good at all is to come from this tragedy. >> some of our legal experts have wondered about these second degree murder charges because it's the knowing killing of another and they've said now having seen the video, yes, it's

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

a number of endorsements. this is really his first campaign event where he is trying to show strong support in a state that he won by ten percentage points in 2016. >> keep us posted on any developments on your side of things. thank you very much. just in to cnn, the memphis police department has permanently deactivated its s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. the five officers involved in the death of tyre nichols were all from that unit. the department has faced calls to disband this special unit. cnn has learned it has now been permanently deactivated. we heard from the city council chairman in memphis a few moments ago who said that move might not go far enough. he said that other reforms are going to be needed inside the memphis police department. we'll keep you posted on any developments there. coming up, shocking newly released video showing the violent attack on paul pelosi. how this impacts the case, that's next. for the things y you touch, nothing kills more viruses

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

that? >> no, we don't have specific clarity, but here's what i can weigh in on. what you're seeing is not something specific only to tyre. this is a culture of these type of units. these saturation units, these suppression units, which i more aptly call oppression units, they are amped up, geared up officers who literally because they're named s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n., they want to go in for the sting, and that's what they did. so when tyre became uncooperative -- in their eyes, which i say he was always cooperative. indeed, he was the one who was deescalating and cooperating with them. when they felt that he was not being cooperative, it was the how dare you, and that's when everything escalated. you saw it went from a zero to a ten in one second. there was nothing in between. >> and what do you make of the comments we heard -- and it's hard to hear everything that's being said in this video, but you hear the officers

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