morning. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and urgent calls for police reform following the police beating of ti tyre nichols. and also a push for police reform, and can any change get through this congress. here is attorney benjamin crump. we said that it is going to remind people of the rodney king video in 1992, and that was a watershed moment for america. and i believe that this video is a watershed moment for america, and what are our national leaders going to do? over the weekend the memphis police department took one step and terminated the so-called s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit that the police officered is belonged to, and joining me is a house minority leader and also a candidate for mayor of memphis, and thank you for taking the time. thank you, jim, for having me. i appreciate it. and you saw the decision to disband the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, and in your view, is this a problem with the particular police unit, or do you fear that there is a larger cultural proble
morning. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and urgent calls for police reform following the police beating of ti tyre nichols. and also a push for police reform, and can any change get through this congress. here is attorney benjamin crump. we said that it is going to remind people of the rodney king video in 1992, and that was a watershed moment for america. and i believe that this video is a watershed moment for america, and what are our national leaders going to do? over the weekend the memphis police department took one step and terminated the so-called s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit that the police officered is belonged to,
commentator. i m running for the tough esz job in the world. and it goes with the territory. i think a lot of people know that there is a campaign of firsts. i ve been having a good time, except i want to correct the record on new york. we do have to make some big changes in new york. and i hope we finally get around to doing it. last line of questioning. sanctuary cities are angry. many americans. san francisco, los angeles, other cities. won t cooperate with federal immigration law. going to crack down on those state sns. i m going to try to get us to where we have to. are you going to crack down? no, and i ll tell you why. the reason why i a lot of those folks do it in new york, why do police officered turn a blind eye? they want them to report crimes.
in terms of the are file, he is police officered. accomplished. younger than i but served two tours overseas on behalf of our country and military and has served in the legislature, now, of course the treasurer of the state and successful in that regard and we need more people like that in the united states senate. clearly ohio is critically important state. but moving forward, it is important we change who is in charge in the united states senate. we need a majority in my opinion, a majority of republicans so we can tackle the issues such as saving medicare and social security. like making sure the united states the most energy rich country in the world is utilizing all energy resources, not just to lower costs but to grow our economy and create jobs. we will not do that with the current bunch in charge now we need to make changes and she a great start. neil: mr. treasurer your critics say you have been like
officer could not watch over me and the interesting thing is i am hispanic, my camera woman is african caribbean, and the police officered that had trouble were african members and the cars that were not allowed to go through, they had african-american drivers, and if the tea party did this they would say they are racist. i cannot imagine a cop wanting to be there with the other things going on in the world and they have to risk injury and harm trying to keep protests in line. what is their attitude? they were just really ill-prepared. there were 10 or 15 cops and hundreds of protesters and they were in fear for themselves because they did not have that many people and americans for prosperity tried to call 9-1-1 four times and the operators hung up on them. and the coke brothers were