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The country. while most of the protests were peaceful, nichols' death compounded feels of frustration and anger. new york city mayor eric adams is a former police officer. >> as someone who spent decades fighting for police diversity and against police abuse, i feel betrayed by these officers. >> reporter: police departments across the country are still trying to recover from the death of george floyd and the perception that police are too quick to resort to excessive force and aren't held accountable. the memphis police chief must now lead the department through an internal investigation in c...

Incident than bias is. another factor might be group think. in your experience working in police departments, is group think a marriage issue within the force when someone witnesses someone else escalating and then they escalate? do you get the sense that that contributed to what we saw? >> it's absolutely a contributing factor. i don't take race out of the issue, by the way. i refer to it as a wolfpack mentality. we see this at the end of a foot pursuit. officers are putting in work, that's what they do, they punish you when they catch you at the end of a foot pursuit. officers coming on the ...

And that's not anything that i'm saying that's been withheld from us. but we don't know yet. we know that the police have said that this was a traffic stop. but we don't know more than that. and quite frankly, i have to tell you, right now, i don't know that it's a justification that they're saying it was traffic stop. because we know that the saturation and suppression units do use a pretext to stop in order to carry out this wolf gang-like mentality, this wolfpack mentality of policing. >> you have no specific knowledge that that's what happened here. you're suggesting, though, it's a s a po...

With you because we heard from the family over the course of the last hour, a clear determination that they don't want their son's death to be in vain and what they are asking for now is for accountability from this police department and the disbandment of a unit that seemed to have been involved in this stop. they're called the scorpion unit. they are saying these units are responsible for brutality, for a wolfpack mentality. what's your reaction to that? >> well, first of all, it was very powerful testimony and i mean you can just feel the -- and sense the pain that the family is going throu...

Charged with murder in the second degree. i believe we'll see an upgrade as to the charges. you have to give the prosecutors more time to do more investigation and also got to see which one of these five officers are going to flip and that's if the prosecutor wants they to flip. if there is sufficient evidence in terms of video we don't need the cooperation from any of the five. >> sergeant dorsey, your reaction to these murder charges, kidnapping charges, aggravated assault charges as well coming for these officers. >> it clearly speaks to the violence that we're going to see when this video ...