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Affidavits incident reports saying this officer was there that night and he had possibly deployed his taser. that was raising a lot of questions online as some of the local publications now. a spokesperson for the police department saying this officer has been relieved of his duties, but no details about what his involvement that night might have been. you mentioned the initial regions that nichols was stopped. there are still a lot of questions about that. we heard from the d.a. for shelby county and said they have seen no evidence that this traffic stop was legitimate even in the moments pri...

Used to advocate for these things! but i am reminded of james baldwin in this moment. how long do you want us to wait for your progress? gentlemen, how long do you want us to wait for your progress? you are telling me that more training is the answer. there has been more training! there have been body cameras. there has been recruitment. there has been additional diversity. there has been money and resources poured into all of these things, instead of the things that we criminalize people for, like substance abuse, like mental health, like houselessness. how long do you want to wait for your p...

Okay, i want to bring in tim alexander, civil rightsternally and former police officer himself. i don't know if you were able to see all of that. we played those two videos. what it appears to have happened, tim, is that officers stopped tyre nichols. he wound up fleeing. they put him on the ground. he got up and tried to flee. they tased him. they deployed pepper spray. they seemed to have sprayed one another in the face with the pepper spray. and then they caught up to him, closer to his home, and then this beating happened that we just played on air. so the questions, i have a couple questi...

Cities around america. and so, tim also mentioned leadership. in many progressive, successful departments, the sergeant on the shift in that sector is a quarterback who makes the calls. because he or she is plugged into it. so, when we see, for example, someone is calling in a chase, we have lost our subject -- and the dispatcher is asking, for what charge? there is a purpose for that question. because a sergeant is supposed to step in -- in a good department -- and go, excuse me, you are chasing somebody? for what? for reckless driving? we don't do that here. that happens in progressive depar...