we will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence o donnell. good evening, alex i know as you watch this next hour, you are going to be wondering, how can to members of congress be sitting in the studio with that guy? and the answer is, i m in washington d.c. this week. and so, that is how the magic is going to happen. that s a good week of shows. knowing you, your experience in washington d.c. and what is happening in that town, there is a lot to discuss. it s going to be an important week here. i will be watching. thanks, alex. thanks, lawrence. tonight, the family of tyre nichols held a press conference at the mason temple church of god in christ in memphis, tennessee. that is the same place where, 55 years ago, the reverend dr. martin luther king junior jr. to a standing room only crowd on the final night of his life, the night before he was assassinated. that night, dr. king said, like anybody,
as you watch this next hour, you are going to be wondering, how can two members of congress be sitting in the studio with that guy? and the answer is, i m in washington d. c. this week. and so, that is how the magic is going to happen. that s a good week of shows. knowing you, your experience in washington d. c. and what is happening in that town, there is a lot to discuss. it s going to be an important week here. i will be watching. thanks, alex. thanks, lawrence. tonight, the family of tyre nichols held a press conference at the mason temple church of god in christ in memphis, tennessee. that is the same place where, 55 years ago, the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. delivered his final speech, which, like all of his speeches, was really a sermon, to a standing room only crowd on the final night of his life, the night before he was assassinated. that night, dr. king said, like anybody, i would like to live a long life. long javits he has its place. but i am not
or at least pretend to leave by the rules. but you guys, we are not even going to pretend. go out there and rack up as many arrests as you can. we have seen the mayor of memphis bragging about the arrest count, just the arrest count of this group. that is never the statistic he you really want to look at, to figure out the real crime fighting capacity of a unit. lawrence, what you are talking about is these police agencies that have become one trick ponies. they lack innovation or any kind of modern idea. they are stuck on the old policing model. catch them, lock them up, throw away the key. they cannot even quantify what success is. is it a number of arrests you make? because, if you just want to add an arrest, is that really success? is it reducing the number of reports for criminal activity that is made? what is success? and how well do you define?
and the message they get this is the sense i get from outside of police departments, but reporting on them is that what we need you to do is what all these other cops have not done. and what the subtext of that is always, make your own rules. we are going to have everybody else kind of live by the rules or at least pretend to leave by the rules. but you guys, pretend. go out there and rack up as many arrests as you can. we have seen the mayor of memphis bragging about the arrest count, just the arrest count of this group. that is never the statistic he really want to look at, to figure out the real crime fighting capacity of a unit. lawrence, what you are talking about is these police agencies that have become one trick ponies. they lack innovation or any kind of modern idea. they are stuck on the old policing model.
this year was inaccurate. the documents produced to date also belie the remarkable notion that this operation was conceived by department leaders as some have claimed. it is my underanding that department leaders were not informed about the inappropriate tactics employed in this operation a until they were made public. what is clear is that disrupting the dangerous flow of firearms along the southwest border, and putting an end to the violence that has claimed far too many lives is and will continue to be a top priority for this department of justice. this year alone we have led successful investigation into the murders of united states citizens in mexico, created new cartel targeting prosecutorial units and secured the extradition of more than one hundred defendants wanted bayou nighted states law enforcement, including the former head of the tijuana cartel. we also built crime-fighting