need him. the only job training program this administration has gotten behind in two and a half years is getting black people to sell more weed in the city. dangerous to this country. y, poorer, dirtier and more divided. when people show you who they are, believe them, the great maya angelou said. similarly, journalist adam d, l believe tucker carlson is exactly who he appeared to be, which is racist. and also a violence-loving weirdo. and this is not how white men fight? what does that even mean? white men don t fight unless it s some civilized duel with antique pistols? what about when they fought on january 6th, beating the hell out of police, tasing, bear spraying and trying to kill them? white men don t fight like that, tucker? what about the atrocities waged by europeans like the holocaust or the u.s. army s war against native americans that helped to
this. one is the tasing he is involved with at the first stop of tyre nichols and then the other he says, i hope they stomp ace ass. are those crimes? well, it s not in and of itself a crime necessarily to tase a fleeing suspect depending on the circumstances, nor is it a crime in and of itself to make a statement like that. that might lead to disciplinary action but not necessarily a crime. now, would all of those facts plus other facts and circumstances taken together perhaps rise to the level of criminal conduct? yes, they could but that s going to depend on what we find as we continue our investigation, which i said we are doing it as quickly as we can. we want to make sure we re doing it thoroughly and fairly at the same time. do you think other people will be charged? i know you said you re looking at everything holistically. do you imagine there will be other charges? so this is precisely the
five former officers beating, kicking, tasing and pepper spraying tyre nichols, who died just a few days ago. the department has permanently deactivated what it called its scorpion unit. that included all of those officers we saw on video that were involved and tyre nichols murder. ex officers now face several criminal charges. officers on friday were people took to the streets, protesting the brutality they saw on the graphic videos. those protests were [inaudible] we will begin today show with msnbc correspondent, she is live in memphis. antonio, good morning. what has been the communities reaction to the police permanently deactivating that scorpion unit? good morning. as that news came down yesterday, protesters would gather ridden downtown, right in front of the shelby county administration building. this is the win for them. this is part of what they ve
him up, and be done with it. they the tasing him was excessive. chasing him down, beating him, kicking him, punching him, hitting him with the metal asp, the baton, was excessive. that s not how you re trained in the academy. and i ve handled cases nationwide, and these are the issues that come. from time to time in the cases that i ve handled as relates to excessive force. when you saw toward the end of the tapes, that fourth tape when now the situation was resolved is the wrong word because the man paid his life for it but when the person they were chasing was subdued, it was almost like locker room conversation where you have athletes talking about the game after it ended, talk to me about