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welcome to our viewers in the u.s., canada and all around the world. ahead on cnn, newsroom. calls for justice and cities across the u.s. after the brutal beating of nichols. the controversial police unit linked to his death has been dismantled. palestinian tensions soaring, now israel's minister is outlining a new plan. new zealand's most populous city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. alive from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with layla. the memphis police department announced the permanent and to a special anticrime unit known as scorpion. the mo...

hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm lynda kinkade. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- calls for justice after the brutal beating of a 29-year-old man in memphis. the controversial police unit linked to his death has now been dismantled. israeli palestinian tensions soaring amid a wave of violence. prime minister netanyahu outlines a new plan after two attacks in jerusalem. and new zealand's most popular city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom," from lynda k...

hi, thanks so much for joining me today. i'm jessica dean in washington, d.c. in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a major shift in memphis. just a day after video shows the brutal police beating of tyre nichols, the city police department announcing it is permanently deactivating the scorpion unit. all five officers charged in nichols' death were part of the movement and after protests around the country demanding it be dissolved. the attorney for tyre nichols's family ben crump telling cnn that it is a positive step but the work is far from over. >> in communities of color, th...

newsroom. i'm jim acosta. outrage and calls for action following the release of video showing the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. that's where weigh start. the images we are going to show you right about now are graphic and disturbing but critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. here is what we know at this hour. nichols was pulled over by memphis police on january 7th, allegedly for reckless driving. in a shocking development, the police chief says the department has not been able to find anything to substantiate that blame. this video shows the moment...

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 paramedi...