you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today the attorney for the family of tyre nichols is calling the video of the 29-year-old being beaten by officers a watershed moment, one that the attorney hopes will lead to federal police legislation reform. late yesterday, we learned that the memphis police department had shut down the controversial scorpion unit that the officers charged in this killing belonged to. that news coming less than 24 hours after graphic video of tyre nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, i want to warn our viewers, what you re about to watch is disturbing. ah! mom! mother mom! give me your fucking hands, man! give me your fucking hands! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. isobel, what led to the chief
and then even after he was brutally beaten, he was left to languish next to a police vehicle without receiving the immediate medical care that he needed. the level of dehumanization captured in that video made me sick to my stomach. and the murder of tyre nichols underscores the need in my view to civilianize traffic enforcement. we should ask ourselves a simple question. where did we get this notion that traffic enforcement should be in the hands of the armed police officers. we know that traffic stops are disproportionate drivers of police brutal my. the according to an analysis by the new york times, police officers killed more than 400 unarmed motorists over a five-year period, and civilianizing traffic enforcement would mean preventing all the police beatings and chokings and shootings that stem from these traffic stops. let me ask you about embattled republican new york congressman, george santos. i know you ve had some thoughts on him over last several days.
for you to trample on the constitutional rights of certain citizens from certain ethnicities and certain communities. and we have to have a larger conversation about this. yeah, and crump and the other family attorney, antonio romanucci penned a letter asking for a federal reckoning, a review of any similar unit throughout the united states, saying that without transparency and oversight, these units can really lose their way and morph into a wolf pack, is what he called it, that deals with aggressive and ends with aggressive encounters with people of color. jim? all right. isobel rosales, thank you so much. we re now getting a closer look at exactly how this deadly encounter between memphis police and tyre nichols unfolded. cnn s boris sanchez takes us through the timeline, but we need to warn you once again , te video you re about to see and hear is graphic and disturbing. you motherfucker!