welcome to our viewers in the u.s., canada and all around the world. ahead on cnn, newsroom. calls for justice and cities across the u.s. after the brutal beating of nichols. the controversial police unit linked to his death has been dismantled. palestinian tensions soaring, now israel s minister is outlining a new plan. new zealand s most populous city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. alive from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with layla. the memphis police department announced the permanent and to a special anticrime unit known as scorpion. the move comes one day after the city released police videos of five officers beating nichols on generate 27. police have confirmed all of the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you are about to see maybe disturbing. scorpion was created over a year ago in response to rising homicides and violent crime. why the officers targeted nichols that night is unclear. nichols was unarmed and
hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m lynda kinkade. ahead on cnn newsroom calls for justice after the brutal beating of a 29-year-old man in memphis. the controversial police unit linked to his death has now been dismantled. israeli palestinian tensions soaring amid a wave of violence. prime minister netanyahu outlines a new plan after two attacks in jerusalem. and new zealand s most popular city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, from lynda kinkade. the memphis police department has announced the permanent end of a special anti-crime unit known as scorpion. it comes just a day after the city released graphic videos of five scorpion officers fatally beating 29-year-old tyre nichols. police have confirmed all the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you re about to see may be disturbing. scorpion was created over a ye
police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos we re about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground. more footage appears to show inaction by deputies and officers and paramedics on the scene. five officers are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. two sheriff s deputies at the scene were placed on leave pending an investigation and cnn s shimon prokupecz is live. we ll talk about the horrific video in just a moment, but we do have new breaking news, information coming in this afternoon, and that is that the memphis police department has
we have come out in a way that is in conjunction with what the family has asked for. they have been peaceful in protest, but they are very, very disturbed. we re out here today because we believe that no one else should go through what tyre nichols went through. they are grateful that the video came out so now the whole world knows what happened, that he was defenseless, that he was helpless. look how they grabbed him out of the car. there was no human inside of those men. maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i m pamela brown in washington and you are in the cnn newsroom. horrifying cruelty and the heartless disregard for a dying man. today, outraged americans are holding small and mostly peaceful protests. in memphis and several other cities protesters are making their voices heard in support of tyre nichols. his deadly beating at the hands of five memphis police officers is captured on video and released to the pu
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