politicsnation. tonight s lead, some justice, but not enough. right now all five of the former memphis police officers whose encounter with motorist tyre nichols, ultimately ended his death three weeks ago are facing potentially life-changing punishment themselves. all five now facing second degree murder charges in addition to several others. two deputies that arrived after the police beating of nichols have now been relieved of duty pending investigation. at the county prosecutor is not ruling out additional charges. as tonight attorneys for two of the former officers, desmond mills and desmond mills junior and emmett martin the third, say their clients plan to plead not guilty. we are also getting word of this afternoon that the so-called scorpion special police unit they were part of has been disbanded. also tonight, the white house is balancing the message of sympathy for the nichols s family and community with calls for calm on the streets of memphis where demonstrators
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going to be commandeering both public and private property and then like august of our most of our city council who are all urban planners what that means no more open spaces no, more public parks no, ball field no more equestrian centers no, more golf courses, turn those open spaces that are only used by the elites into what are going to be shanty towns a lot of the homeless don t want to be in a elm who. rather be on the streets doing drugs. they are mentally ill. they have a lot of issues. no one is clamoring for a two bedroom rental. right. well, that s the thing. none of this is compulsionry. this is all by choice. and, you know, it s going to be you know, they were talking about all the city departments that were coming together to meet her and talk about this emergency. i read the article. i was looking for one the