nichols call on the police department to disband the unit immediately. the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended
these units, and tell them there early, they have some kind of special privileges. and on the other department, the officers need to follow, it is a recipe for disaster, again, i don t want to suggest that the only problems in policing are in these units. but i do think that we see a particular concentration of those problems. samuelson outweigh, police scorecard and radley balko, author of rise of the warrior, cop killer tries asian america s police force. guys, thank you both for your time tonight. tonight president biden has weighed in on the violet footage of tyre nichols beating. like so many, i was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the bidding that resulted in tyre nichols s death. it s another painful reminder of the profound fear, trauma, pain in the exhaustion that black and brown americans experience every single day. will have reaction coming up next from a member of the memphis city council. stay with us.
is a recipe for disaster, again, i don t want to suggest that the only problems in policing are in these units. but i do think that we see a particular concentration of those problems. samuelson outweigh, police scorecard and radley balko, author of rise of the warrior, cop killer tries asian america s police force. guys, thank you both for your time tonight. tonight president biden has weighed in on the violet footage of tyre nichols beating. like so many, i was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the bidding that resulted in tyre nichols s death. it s another painful reminder of the profound fear, trauma, pain in the exhaustion that black and brown americans experience every single day. will have reaction coming up next from a member of the memphis city council. stay with us. ay with us
nichols call on the police department to disband the unit immediately. the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it s intended to do? , so you see this having happening in cities across the country, new york city, they had this anti gun unit, the plainclothes unit that was disbanded and reinstated on