because they were in a field. you need to have a patrol sergeant like i was to roll up on these calls when you hear your officers go code 6 so you can monitor their activity, and if you observe a use of force you can manage it and pull those officers off and say, hey, that s enough. we know these were basically officers who were one click away from being a rookie out there unsupervised. i am not surprised at all. we know these officers understood what they were doing because they were creating an audio record to manufacture the probable cause. at one point you see an officer shine his flashlight up at the sky cop and he was thinking his flashlight on the camera might preclude anybody from seeing what was going on. this is very troubling. that s a very interesting point. eric, one of the fired officers that has been charged in the nichols death, he was
times, kicking and hitting, i want to make sure when you re watching this, everybody, very disturbing what you re seeing. it is graphic content, take caution with what you re seeing and looking at. hitting him with baton and asp. walk me through this in terms of what you are seeing. seeing officers abuse their authority, punish mr. nichols. these officers do what they do on a regular basis, promise you find out in the future there will be others that come forward and talk about the kind of abuses that have suffered at the hands of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. the name alone is offputting. these officers understand great deference given to their version of events. we heard start to finish manufacturing probable cause, lying about the encounter creating audio record because they understood they were being recorded when they said, he was really strong, all 140 pounds
gun, he reached for my gun. he swung, powell, almost hit me. sergeant dorsey, when you hear this, in light of what we have seen, what is your reaction? this is how the officers get down. this is not new to them, this is what they do. they did it too effortlessly. every thing they said was to create audio record because they understand someone is going to question the hospitalization of this individual. like i said, great deference is given to the officer s version. this is what they were preparing for. i guarantee, they abused that same scenario and it worked in the past. i cannot imagine the police chief is unaware and if she is, she needs to fire whoever keeps her abreast of what is going on with that unit in her department. i can t believe she is not aware there are numerous complaints. where there is smoke some of their spider. if she is not aware these officers were involved in that kind of activity, that is problematic. where are the supervisors? how come there was no one there
of officers. they gave a politically correct and wanting to seem sensitive statement. but understand this. that police department and that city has a real problem. now that we have had over 24 hours almost coming up on 24 hours since that video has been released, i have so many questions about what that department did really to prevent this, all of this was preventible. you have officers young on the job, unsupervised out there doing what they do on a regular basis. this was not anything that they aren t accustomed to doing. they were sophisticated and savvy. they created an audio record to manufacture probable cause for the initial stop and everything that happened after. i want to stay with you because i find the dynamic, especially as you noted when they are discussing the incident after it happened, i find that very interesting. notably, the police thchief in memphis said race is less of an