good morning and welcome to cnn this morning weekend. i m boris sanchez live in memphis, tennessee, a city that s still processing the horror caught on camera, the horrific beating of tyre nichols at the hands of police. good morning to you, boris. i m amara walker here in atlanta. that encounter from start to finish, the video was released last night, giving the public its first glimpse into what happened on that night. the four clips are each taken from different per specktives, but they all show a deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police officers earlier this month. the images are graphic, disturbing and heartbreaking, but they re critical to understanding the gravity of what happened. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground. all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the ground. we see and hear a lot. what we do not see is nichols bein
for how police departments should handle it in the future. immediately the officers were fired, they were soon after charged, and then the videos were made public in an effort for transparency. do you agree that this is a blueprint for the way that these officer-involved killings should be handled in the future? well, hopefully we don t have these in the future, boris, right? hopefully we take this moment and not sit here again in a few months or a few years and have a tragic incident like that. yes. chief davis got up front, her compassion, transparency, and holding officers accountable are critical. actually we saw the benefit of that. last night we saw mass protests around the country, but they were peaceful, right? it wasn t leading into civil unrest. why? because there was a measured tone coming from police commanders of empathy and compassion for this loss of life and a commitment to do better. and the memphis police department has done has taken
well, boris, around the country, we re seeing a rise in violent criming so these squads, this s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. squad, anti-crime squad, you can put any name of it you want, the intention of these units is to reduce violent crime, specifically gun violence. what it does is it actually gives police commanders greater ability and flexibility to put officers into hotspot areas where violent crime is rising. but these organizations, these these units need to have strict controls. they need supervision. that s one thing we did not see in this video at all was a level of command. we saw reckless officers unmitigating without structural command to dictate what they should be doing left. me go back to these units. there needs to be a balance between reasonable outputs by these groups, and those reasonable outputs are arrests, right? you want to take violent
steps in the past, but they admitted chief davis admitted accountability needs to transcend throughout the entire department. i would expect very quickly you re going to see a cultural diagnostic of that department to better understand how these officers and potentially others we don t know were able to act with such impunity on the street with this suspect and others. so we have to get better, and that was the theme of chief davis yesterday in her interview with don lemon. i m with you. i hope that this turns into an inflection point as the mother of tyre nichols said, he was on an assignment from god and that this hopefully changes the relationship between law enforcement and these communities. jonathan wackrow, thanks for the time. boris, jonathan just touched
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning weekend. i m boris sanchez live in memphis, tennessee, a city that s still processing the horror caught on camera, the horrific beating of tyre nichols at the hands of police. good morning to you, boris. i m amara walker here in atlanta. that encounter from start to finish, the video was released last night, giving the public its first glimpse into what happened on that night. the four clips are each taken from different per specktives, but they all show a deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police officers earlier this month. the images are graphic, disturbing and heartbreaking, but they re critical to understanding the gravity of what happened. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground.