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The fundraiser will involve 5 locations spread across Albany.

Policies of the memphis police department. this is something that community there has been asking for, something that the tyre nichols' family has been looking for and they've been asking for the doj, and it's different from what we're seeing announced there by merrick garland in terms of the pattern and practice and that could happen here, too. that's what doj is doing right now in memphis. they're reviewing some of the policies. the other thing that's significant, we keep hearing about the specialized units and we keep hearing about the specialized unit and the problems that they have there ...

I feel like that the west end, which is my district, was a target for the viper unit. and that was a great question you asked. how do lmpd, how do the city recover from this, but my question is how do my constituents recover from this? >> so charles, chief, to that point you talk about developing trust with the community. i went back and you were police chief back in houston in 2012 you met with community activists about alleged police brutality. you met with them for a little over an hour, and after the meeting they had told a local news station that you, quote, listened to a list of suggesti...

African-american neighborhoods of louisville for excessive force. the attorney general just listed a few things including the use of these protextural traffic stops and we've seen police departments across the country have been trying to avoid or abandon these practices because they lead to a lot of unintended, perhaps, consequences including confrontations with people who have no basis for being. so one of the things that the justice department found was that there was this unit called the viper unit. it has been renamed, that was essentially running rampant through these neighborhoods causin...

Police officers already have difficult jobs. these inadequacies have made those jobs even harder and less safe. our report also describes unlawful law enforcement practices by lmpd patrol officers and by members of a specialized unit that was first called the viper unit. the unit was later rebranded as 9th mobile division and the criminal interdiction division. officers in this specialized unit frequently made pretextural traffic stops in black neighborhoods. federal and state courts have found that officers in the unit violated residents and has undermined the public safety mission and strain...