Special police units like the now-disbanded SCORPION team in Memphis are common around the country. Police chiefs say they’re essential for fighting crime. Critics say their elite status and lack of accountability is a recipe for abuse.
the first white officer that we have seen held accountable in this case. the photo of him circulating shows him accepting his certificate for completing i think it was crisis intervention training. so, you get 40 hours of crisis intervention training and you are the guy caught on camera saying, i hope they stomp his ass. i think that s probably the best indication that the training is not working. radley balko and marq claxton, thank you very much for starting off our discussions tonight. thanks. thank you. president biden will meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy tomorrow to discuss the debt ceiling. president biden has made one thing clear. there will be no negotiations on the debt ceiling. kevin mccarthy has made one thing clear. he wants to negotiate but does not know how. senator chris murphy will join us next. you know, it seems like hope and trust are in short supply. [clap] now, as businesses we can blame and shame. or. [whistles] we can make a change.
instead, they captured police officers yanking mr. nichols from a car, threatening to hurt him, and after he ran away, catching up with him and inflicting the deadly beating. all the while, it appears from the videos, that mr. nichols never struck back. it was the latest instance nationwide in which video evidence whether from body cam footage or a bystander cell phone offered a starkly different account of police violence from what officers had reported themselves. leading off our discussion tonight is marq claxton, a former new york city police detective and a member of the black law enforcement alliance, and new york times contributing columnist radley balko. he is a freelance investigative reporter covering the criminal justice system and is the author of the substack the watch. marq claxton, let me begin with you, and what is the latest case to have developed exclusively because we are in the video age. one of the most important
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Special police units like the now-disbanded SCORPION team in Memphis are common around the country. Police chiefs say they’re essential for fighting crime. Critics say their elite status and lack of accountability is a recipe for abuse.