just yesterday you had teachers and students from local schools in memphis, they were demanding change out on the streets yesterday. so we are seeing a sense of camaraderie in the community, everybody is just flabbergasted at what happened. we ve seen police brutality happen in other cities such as with george floyd in minneapolis and breonna taylor and we have had other cases of police brutality in memphis and even in the 1970s. julia, if i canjump in to ask, you are describing here that people are coming out very strongly against police brutality but it will look at this particular case in memphis, this was about the scorpion unit in particular, which has been now disbanded. it is the only type of unit two known to carry out acts like this? we have other units
exactly. ..untilwe get justice for my son. - julia baker is a criminal justice reporter at the daily memphian and says feelings are still running high over the killing. you know, initially, there was a lot of outrage and there is still a lot of outrage. people are wondering why police brutality, you know, continues to happen. in memphis, you know, you have protests going on, mainly by our local black lives matter chapter. it has all been peaceful protests, that is one great thing about memphis is i have never seen violent protest, so they are doing multiple protests a week, it is notjust them, you have moms forjustice for tyree, they are getting together and advocating for change.
i know that is just the tip of the iceberg and i know that she is also doing an internal investigation all the other specialised units so, just picking on memphis, i know they are to make changes. as far as nationwide, i don t know, that is such a big problem that is going to take a lot of people from all cells of different angles to make a change and it is not something that can be done overnight, unfortunately. ida. done overnight, unfortunately. no, it certainly isn t, done overnight, unfortunately. no, it certainly isn t, thank you for your time, julia baker, it certainly isn t, thank you for yourtime, julia baker, criminal your time, julia baker, criminal justice yourtime, julia baker, criminal justice reported that reporter covering this case. meanwhile, six people have been shot dead in a series of shootings in mississippi. officials says the killings took place in various locations and that a suspect is now in custody. in turkey, there is growing anger over the shoddy constru
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ofjustice right now, and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face they haven t done that yet. they couldn t even do that today. they didn t have the courage to look at me in my face after what they did to my son. so, they re going to see me at every court date, everyone. exactly. ..until we getjustice for my son. let s speak tojulia baker, a criminaljustice reporter at the daily memphian. thanks for making time for us, julia. you are on the ground, you are covering the story, what are you hearing from people about this case?