charged. the news coming less than 24 hours after the graphic video of nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, want to warn you, this video is disturbing to watch. mom, mom! give me your hands. give me your hand. cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. the family attorney of ben krunlp, he had a to say this morning on cnn to dana bash. what did he have to say. he told her that clearly there is a problem in america. the officers failed their oath and tyre nichols. but this beating, jim, he said, goes beyond the individuals officers and beyond their color and really going to a problem with the system, with police culture where time and time again we re seeing traffic stops ending with the death of black men at the hands of police officers. now crump also touted how quickly these officers were charged and were fired. saying that this is really a blueprint going forward across america regardless if the officer is black, white or anything
their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is, where do we go from here? the president and speaker mccarthy set to meet this week, as the nation s debt ceiling crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this run away spending. parents send their kids back to school tomorrow since the shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. in memphis and across america, the cries for justice for tyre nichols raise a larger question. how can law enforcement finally commit to meaningful reforms? hours after the public viewed the horrific beating, memphis answered the outcry by shutting down the specialized scorpion unit. all five members that were fired and charged with nichols death were members of that controversial unit. cnn s isabella rah za lass joins us now. what is the latest? reporter: hey,
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 deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, jim. so
i am just trying to go home. brian: you see an officer approach tyre nichols with their guns drawn and yank him out of his vehicle. he threw them to the ground. he was on the ground and put his hands behind his back. a few moments later you see him get up and run. multiple officers repeatedly punch him and pepper spray him. you see an for walk up and kick him in the head two times. they strike him with a baton over and over again. later dragged and propped up against a police car. he didn t receive any medical attention even though there were medical personnel there. he would die two days later in the hospital. people in memphis and across the country are protesting, but there is no widespread violence. but fear of it does remain. almost universal agreement this is unacceptable. the you five officers are black. they are members of an elite unit. they require specific qualifications and training. it is inactive now since nichols passed away. the officers have been fired and ch
you need to take time, ingest it and take a deep breath and use reason and logic to come to a conclusion about what happened and how we can fix it. what happened in memphis is a disgrace. based on the feedback i received from my hundreds of friend in law enforcement i work with and met after i left, they are as disgusted if not more disgusted than anyone else about this incident. because they personally do this every day. now what they do, putting their asses on the line every day, their image is tarnished forever and they know it. and they had nothing to do with it, a lot of those good men out there. i looked at these videos multiple angles and multiple times. as a former police officer myself. i worked in brooklyn. we had everything from kidnapping to drug dealing to murder. anybody in the nypd between the 75 in brooklyn and upper manhattan, those were the busiest precincts around. busy when you are a police officer means bad. you are not responding to birthday parties to c