country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protesters yest
police released surveillance and body cam video of a deadly traffic stop that preceded the death of 29-year-old tyre nichols. kevin corke lays out the key portions of the video and also has the baking details. kevin, good evening. trace, the video takes place over two separate scenes beginning with the initial stop where tyre nichols was pulled over for allegedly recklessly driving. now, nelson had been sort of jerked out of his vehicle by officers, though we don t know why, given where the video began. then obviously there is an altercation in which officers are ordering nelson to turn over and put his hands behind his back. there s a lot of back and forth, a lot of talking, and eventually a scuffle. pepper spray is deployed. nelson struggles with the officers, and manages somehow to escape on foot. later on, after being caught at the second location, officers from the initial stop show up. another altercation ensues, only this time for several minutes. nelson is brutally
aid is the us prepared for what s next, i ll speak to two members of the house oversight committee, republican chairman james comer and democratic congressman ro khanna next and brazen attacks. president biden orders an airstrike in syria after iranian linked groups attack americans prepared for us to back forcefully. protect our people. is it enough to deter iran senate intel chairman mark warner is here to discuss plus clock s ticking. tiktok gets walloped from both sides. platform should be banned threat does tiktok post to everyday americans, i ll speak to republican commerce chair cathy mcmorris rodgers in moments. hello i m jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is taking it all in. once again, the former president trump finds himself right where he wants to be in this case. waco texas near the 30th anniversary of the standoff with that infamous cult. the former president was there at the center of a new political maelstrom saturday afternoon, lashing o
you as house republicans rushed to his aid is the us prepared for what s next, i ll speak to two members of the house oversight committee, republican chairman james comer and democratic congressman ro khanna next and brazen attacks. president biden orders an airstrike in syria after iranian linked groups attack americans prepared for us to back forcefully. protect our people. is it enough to deter iran senate intel chairman mark warner is here to discuss plus clocks ticking. tiktok gets walloped from both sides. platform should be banned threat does tiktok posed to everyday americans? i ll speak to republican commerce chair cathy mcmorris rodgers in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is taking it all in. once again, the former president trump finds himself right where he wants to be in this case. waco texas near the 30th anniversary of the standoff with that infamous cult. the former president was there at the center of a new political
and odd and frivolous behavior and showing disrespect for the norms of society. in the haight ash bury district illegally smoked illegal substances threatened to make love and not war and let it known they trusted no one over 30. jesse: haight ash bury one place in the country where you could get high and flaunt it in public. over a half century later san francisco s hippy generation gave birth to this. excuse me, ma am, you know there is a drug rehab here, right? can you use drugs somewhere else. she ain t doing drugs, man. she got a meth pipe in her hand. stop your drug habit maybe you wouldn t get evicted. come on, you have got to do that somewhere else, bro. get up with that, bro. you are out in front of a building right now. this is where people live. we got this business we are trying to run here and you are making it look kind of bad over here. can you guys clean it up a little bit and go somewhere elsewhere w. this stuff? because it s getting a little out of