investigation into the louisville police department. attorney general merrick garland announced the systemic problems his team found just days before the three-year anniversary of the case that prompted the review, the death of breonna taylor, a black woman who was shot and killed during a no-knock raid on her apartment. the report finds that lmpd uses excessive force including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers, conducts searches based on imbalanced warrants, unlawfully executes warrants without knocking and announcing, unlawfully stops, searches, detains and arrests people, unlawfully discriminates against black people in enforcement activities, violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech, critical policing. and along with louisville metro discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to them in crisis. cnn s senior justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. so, jes
report. it goes to show that the louisville police department has been practicing and abusing the black community in that city for many, many years. according to the justice department, they ve known for years that the police department was targeting african americans for for pretextual police stops, trying to figure out ways to get them to pull over, and then finding additional cars that they could look into. they renamed a crime unit called the viper unit, but continued doing the same things. the city itself looked into some of the practices of the police department targeting african americans, and nothing changed after doing that. here is attorney general merrick garland describing some of the findings. some officers have demonstrated disrespect for the people they are sworn to protect. some have videotaped themselves throwing drinks at pedestrians from their cars, assaulted people with disabilities, and called black people, monkeys, animal, and boy. this conduct is un
and that s crucial to moving toward our enduring goal of palestinians and israelis enjoying equal measures of freedom, security, opportunity, justice and dignity. president biden remains fully committed to that goal. we continue to believe the best way to achieve it is through preserving and then realising the vision of two states. as i said to the prime minister, anything that moves us away from that vision is in ourjudgment detrimental to israel s long term security and its long term identity as a jewish and democratic state. you heard secretary blinken there referring to a two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict. what that envisions is an independent palestinian state in the west bank alongside israel, withjerusalem as their shared capital. next let s hear what the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had to say. to, perhaps achieve dramatic breakthroughs that i think could be both historic and enormously significant in our common efforts to bring
the death toll from the latest series of tornadoes that have ripped through parts of the united states is rising. at least three people have been killed in the states of arkansas and illinois. dozens have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. the governor of arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders has declared a state of emergency. our reporter shelley phelps has more. oh, my god! ripping away building tops, downing trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon. this man told cbs news what he saw. and through our window i saw a transformer back here that kind of blew up. i saw that the lightning strike, it kind of blew up, caught me off guard, went in the bathroom, closed the door, and then all of a sudden, it was just like so much wind everywhere. it felt like kind of like the house was shaking and things were kind of like being thrown against it. and it was just something i never experienced before.
the pope has said he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday in the vatican. a smiling pope francis was discharged from a hospital in rome in just the last few hours where he was receiving treatment for bronchitis. our correspondent jenny hill is in rome. it s a lovely morning in rome. good news for the pope. it s a lovely morning in rome. good news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of people - news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of people who - news for the pope. good news of the | tens of thousands of people who have come here to saint peters square. it s an enormous significance to catholics the world over because it s not holy week, the the most significant week in the catholic calendar. many were horrified on the idea that the pope might not be able to participate in the proceedings. he appeared very relaxed, smil