happen to 20 nine-year-old to 29 year old tyree nichols after he was pulled over by police on january 7th. three days later, he was dead. an independent autopsy blamed his death an extensive bleeding caused by severe beating. and tonight, his mother pleads for peace. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. my lord. i didn t see it, but from what i hear it s going to be horrific. but i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets. amen. because that s not what my son stood for. people who have seen this police body cam video call it shocking, sickening, and appalling. i ve seen the video. as she stated, you will to. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. let me be clear. what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. so tomorrow night the public will see this video and then what? that s one of the questions that we ll be aski
return peace to our communities. that s where the acronym stands for. that s what the acronym is. scorpion group is 50 officers that have good records a street officers, who made gun arrests and were aggressive out in the field. it was put together in really the beginning of 2021 because memphis had 346 murders. now new york city that year had 419 murders. the differences, new york city has 8. 6 million people and memphis has 630,000. wow. so these guys were gonna go into high crime areas and i don t know, a strikeforce of some kind. they were gonna be looking for crimes in progress, looking for criminals, looking for people with guns, and you know, they re operating in plain clothes but they have vests that are clearly marked it s a police. they are in unmarked cars and pickup trucks and dodge chargers and things that and unmarked cars that don t