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Here the justice department does have the ability to go in and sue and use the law if these negotiations break down. so it is a very powerful tool. your point is very well taken or the question is very well taken in that why can't -- it's clearly -- it's a bigger problem than just one police department, i think we can all stipulate to that, but what our government gives us is the ability only to handle it on a local case by case level. >> yeah. and, andy, merrick garland also specifically talked about violations by this viper unit in louisville, it was renamed something else later, but it piqu...

Sounds _ but this is a caveat, this all sounds good but local municipalities really— sounds good but local municipalities really are _ sounds good but local municipalities really are able to determine just how much— really are able to determine just how much of their budget will be spent _ how much of their budget will be spent on — how much of their budget will be spent on meaningfully executing these _ spent on meaningfully executing these reforms. so while i think a lot of— these reforms. so while i think a lot of people will be pleased to hear _ lot of people will be pleased to hea...

We want you to start giving us some guidance and assistance on these specialized units. so as a result of that they are now going to start looking at specialized units all across the cou country. so there is a lot still obviously going on in the memphis investigation and now we're seeing doj starting to look at what the memphis police there have been doing. there is a lot of similarities. you talk about this viper unit in louisville, same thing here, you had a car stop that was -- we're not entirely clear for why, that then ultimately led to this encounter with police, this aggressive encounte...

Taylor killing happens in 2020, it's clear that hardly any of those changes were making a difference. for instance, they had this so is-called viper unit, which was an anti-crime unit, that they tried to rename, but essentially was still doing the same thing. they called it a mobile unit. and what the investigation found was that they were using things like pretext yule police stops, anyone who they thought might be just randomly making a wrong turn or something on a road, they would stop to try to figure out if there were additional crimes. it's something we have seen around the country that ...

Report. it goes to show that the louisville police department has been practicing and abusing the black community in that city for many, many years. according to the justice department, they've known for years that the police department was targeting african americans for -- for pretextual police stops, trying to figure out ways to get them to pull over, and then finding additional cars that they could look into. they renamed a crime unit called the viper unit, but continued doing the same things. the city itself looked into some of the practices of the police department targeting african amer...