the justice department has just issued a scathing and disturbing report on the louisville police department nearly two years after a nearly two year civil rights investigation. now, attorney general merrick garland launched this probe in the months after the louisville police shot and killed an unarmed black woman, breonna taylor inside of her home. a short time ago garland explained that that botched raid in march of 2020 was part of a practice of abuses by the city. the pd leader told the department breonna taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years. the justice department s findings in the report that we are releasing today bear that out. and listen to this, these are just some of the very ugly examples that garland cited today. the justice department has also identified deficiencies in lmpd s response to and investigation of domestic violence and sexual assault. lmpd has relied heavily on pretextual traffic stops in black neighborhoods. some have vi
announcement about his future in the nfl. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening after suffering a dehumanizing death helplessly beaten in the street, the life and the person that was tyre nichols was celebrated in a memphis church today a funeral that portrayed nichols as more than a victim of a shocking act, but also a father, a skateboard enthusiast, a photographer the service, however, was also a public outcry for police reform, attended by other families who have lost loved ones to police. also in attendance, vice president kamala harris who said this violent act was not in pursuit of public safety on that note, we have learned more about the five officers charged with nichols death, including the disciplinary histories for four of them as an apparent disconnect emerges between police accounts of the confrontation with nichols and what is seen on video recordings priscilla thompson leads us off tonight reporter: tonight, songs of sor
it s a long time. at least it was 3:00 in the morning when you left your house. our marriage can drive now drink legally. our marriage can drink legally now. i m just saying. if it wants to. i am john berman. brianna is off, maybe happily at this point. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. great to have you here. thank you for having me and congratulations to your wife. i have a lot of questions for her. you keep if you are owing your eyebrows. congratulations to your wife, yes mark. we have new cnn reporting on former president trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. the fulton county district attorney putting all 16 fake trump electors on notice that they are now targets of an ongoing criminal investigation. before they were just witnesses. it represents a pretty significant escalation of the criminal probe in georgia indicating prosecutors could be moving closer to charges perhaps against those wh
to michael bloomberg, from the department of information, technology and telecommunications. so obviously can help us answer a lot of these questions. and, evan, i want to start with you, this has raised so many questions about what s going on, and why, if you can recover one message, where are the rest of them? right. and, you know, look, this letter that jamie gangel obtained indicates also that the committee, the committee asked the secret service to preserve these records on january 16th. this is before the so-called migration, this is before the devices were being changed over. this is what the secret service says is the cause of this deletion of these text messages. but what was being requested was all of these communications for 24 people at the secret service. we don t know exactly who those people are, but there are people who would have been in key positions to know what was happening in those days before january 6th and, of course, on that day. the only message t
on the work of the inspector general s office. also, the source says, the ig told the committee that the secret service had not been fully cooperative with his probe. the source said the inspector general s description left the impression that the secret service had been, quote, foot dragging. the inspector general told the committee, according to the source, that his office is not getting full access to personnel records. the source also said the ig told the committee he brought the issue more than once to the secretary of home land security, whole he said continued to try to get the information. according to the source, the inspector general said that is when he decided to go to congress because he was getting nowhere with his concerns. we want to point out that s just one side of the issue. department of homeland security did not comment on the matter to cnn, so there s a lot we don t know, starting with congressman jamie raskin telling cnn there are contradictory statemen