thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ee you at the end of tomorrow thanks john for joining us this evening. tomorrow morning, the family of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old who was fatally beaten by police on january 7th, played nichols to rest at the mississippi boulevard christian church. vice president kamala harris plans to attend, along with current biden administration officials and former mayors keisha lance bottoms and mitch atlantic. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. tomorrow night, we will speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment, and what justice can this case looks like. for tonight, sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney benjamin crump are gathered at the historic in memphis to discuss how authorities continue to respond to nicole s death. we learned yesterday that in addition to the five former police officers who were arrested last week on
opportunity to re-examine the investments of public safety. and to think about what do we actually need police for? and if you really are logical about the question, if you think about what supposedly happened this night with tyre nichols, a alleged traffic stop, we do not need a gang, and that s what they were, a gang of officers, ripping him out of his car, tasing him, beating him, chasing him down, over an alleged traffic violation. it is not lost on me that this happened in memphis, which is the sight of a case that legal defense fund one in 1985 about fleeing felons, which establish that you cannot use deadly force against a fleeing felon if that felon is posing no danger. in this case, we had a fully innocent man, as far as we know. there is nothing to suggest
low level traffic enforcement. but the reason they are doing it in those neighborhoods is they know they will get enough people with enough stuff in the car, they can charge them. the mayor can be proud of the numbers. the community can feel safe. it is a pr vicious cycle. until we start actually asking questions about what the safety means. and exactly as folks in oakland have been saying and folks in chicago and philly have been saying. we need to use police for less. for the things that we could possibly train them for. and by the way, get them out of the things that they themselves have said they want out of. mental health, unhoused folks. and for sure at a low level traffic, which is most dangerous by the officer and in this case, deadly for one motorist. can i just ask you, when we talk about what safety means, there is a generational divide on this. is there not? especially in memphis, the atlantic has some great reporting on this. older residents of some of these communitie
thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ee you at the end of tomorrow thanks john for joining us this evening. tomorrow morning, the family of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old who was fatally beaten by police on january 7th, played nichols to rest at the mississippi boulevard christian church. vice president kamala harris plans to attend, along with current biden administration officials and former mayors keisha lance bottoms and mitch atlantic. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. tomorrow night, we will speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment, and what justice can this case looks like. for tonight, sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney benjamin crump are gathered at the historic in memphis to discuss how authorities continue to respond to nicole s death. we learned yesterday that in
overnight success. at the end of last year, chief davis created the street crimes operation to restore peace in our neighborhood unit, scorpion, this addresses violent crimes that occurred throughout our city. since its inception this past october threw three days ago, the scorpion unit has had a total of 566 arrests, 390 of them for felonies. they have seized $103,000 in cash, 270 vehicles, and 253 weapons. officials say the memphis police department uses crime data to determine which neighborhoods to deploy the cities scorpion teams. but activists say special units like scorpion tend to target low income communities, conducting mass pull overs in those neighborhoods. those units have proliferated and cities across the country as a kind of tough on crime strategy. but there have long been complaints about those special units and in memphis, president