hi, thanks so much for joining me today. i m jessica dean in washington, d.c. in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a major shift in memphis. just a day after video shows the brutal police beating of tyre nichols, the city police department announcing it is permanently deactivating the scorpion unit. all five officers charged in nichols death were part of the movement and after protests around the country demanding it be dissolved. the attorney for tyre nichols s family ben crump telling cnn that it is a positive step but the work is far from over. in communities of color, they often have different types of police than many of white brothers and sisters have in their community and this video illustrates that it is this culture that said it doesn t matter whether the police officers are black, hispanic or white, that it is somehow allowed for you to tramp on the constitutional rights of certain citizens from certain ethnicities and certain communities and we have to hav
chief was defending the unit and saying that it was responsible for over 2,000 felony arrests, removing 800 guns off the streets. how do you think they move forward in kind of balancing all of that? to ensure there isn t a rise in crime but also that something like this never happens again? it sounds like what you re saying it may come down to oversight? jessica, you re absolutely right. i think there needs to be a table top exercise among the policymakers within the police department and the community to assess and address the needs of that community as it relates to crime reduction. it is clear that we need to have policing in these communities. but at the same token, what is the happy medium and that is what i believe the police and the community will have to come up with a strategy and implement it accordingly to ensure that that community is safe. and how do you think they move federal orward building tr