very good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. this morning lawmakers back on capitol hill facing growing pressure after the deadly beating of tyre nichols by memphis police ignites renewed calls for federal police reform. nichols family attorney benjamin crump telling cnn tyre s tragic death should force congress to act. shame on us if we don t use his tragic death to finally get the george floyd justice in policing act passed. so will things change this time around? the congressional black caucus is calling for a meeting with president biden this week to push for negotiations on police reform. remember there was a push, bipartisan push in the wake of george floyd it didn t make it through two years ago following that death, those discussions broke down in the senate, congress failed to pass the federal reforms. now the president of tennessee s naacp chapter is pleading with congress to try again. we come to call to action for congress. by faili
mccarthy s removal of congressman, eric swalwell, and adam shift from the and sell agents committee. the cardinal sin appears to be that i lead the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago democratic intel committee members, and are here to talk about it. marjorie taylor greene is the queen bee of the gop. why this is horrible for the country. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, thousands continue to take to the streets as the nation mourns the death of yet another black man killed at the hands of law enforcement. memphis authorities initially portrayed it as a routine traffic stop gone awry. but, when your black in america, there is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. we give our children the talk for a reason. we teach our children, and remind ourselves how to behave in front of cops, how to talk to cops. be respectful. be calm. all in the hopes that if we are pulled over, that we will survive the encounter. the release of the footage of
memphis does not have money to pay out this huge settlement but it will. we have to think about restrukt hinge r. i think that where it comes from police department insurance policies. that he is the real accountability. chief, to effect change is this primarily a legislation issue for a culture issue that is a police culture issue how these difficult decisions in the moment are made? you ve commanded police before, which do you think is more impactful? jim, that s a great question and i would say it s actually both. i think that most police chiefs and certainly chief davis has been working on culture change and making sure that the memphis pd which overwhelmingly has great men and women dedicated each day and night for the citizens of memphis, but culture in any organization is very difficult to change and you have to continue to stay at it and sustain it, but also legislation. chief davis was able to fire those officers under her
lot of departments have around the country. how problematic are these units? especially when they re rolling through her hand in unmarked cars, and quite honestly if an unmarked car rolls up behind me in a bunch of guys jump out, i m not gonna think they are the cops. joyce. right. so this is a police culture issue, jonathan. it is something that we should have dealt with that we failed to deal with. and, now there are going to need to be legal standards passed by the united states congress, tamping in on the sort of qualified immunity the police have relied on for far too long to protect them in outright misconduct. there is also responsibility at the top of the leadership in departments, police and sheriffs departments across the country. we are overdue for systemic reform. harry, your thoughts real quick. i m going to say a counter
culture of policing at this point is regardless of whether you re a black officer or white officer, you re making the the officers are allowed to make decisions based on what they ve always done. not necessarily based upon what s right. certainly we want to see some justice come because officer porter had a responsibility to either seat belt brother freddie gray in. he had a responsibility to address brother freddie s cry for medical attention. when you have a cry like that, a cry for justice and help, then it s only your responsibility as a police officer to preserve life while in the custody of police. ed, i m sorry to interrupt. i just wanted to clarify that for our viewers. you were going to say? i appreciate that, carol. here s the problem. it s really improper and irresponsible to conflate the race and police culture issue with a trial where these