there is full transparency and it seems to only delayanspaf the inevitable, the suffering that will happen for the community when it s finally released. ll happethe communitt s finaand, happened, the underlying crime ther the e is this pain of feelingisled, that they ve been misled or the community. this has beethn hidden from the. so what do you make of the swift response? responseis it, as benjamin crumd there, a real model forel how other departments, they have to handle something this horrific, get it donec an? it is a model. of course, each casedividu alis individual. it has its own facts.ey but in this case, i think they did exactlydid exac the rit thing. i had a similar incident when i was commissioner. i immediately reached out to the community and they immediately worked with the us attorney to get the four officers who were involved,l indicted, and they all ended up. going to jail. soso what s important is toto maintain confidence in the community, to lemaintat the, this is n
all right, steve , thank you very much. if you ll stic k around with ul through this hour, we ll come back to you. joining me now, howardyou. safir, former new york city m police commissioner. all right, commissioner, ifvs you ve watched these videos, it s excruciating. it, s excrucia your watching a y being victimized by people thati we trustctimiz to and have a duy to protect our communities. these men are facing charges. they were swiftly fired.swiftly they were wearing body cameras. that s how we get so much ofof this information. is it your sense that they feelu justified in the behavior thatrt they carried out? and what we witnesse theyd in these four tapes? i don t know ifd they feltn justified, but there s absolutely no justification for what they did. you know no justio, i will alwao first defender of police when they re accused of improperln t but from what i know in this case, these are five criminals and police uniforms assaulting a man who is committing a mino viol
prosecution and levy their own indictment and their own prosecution federally. utio and chris, what do you me of this so-called scorpion unit? it wasf this so-called this groy really supposed to be cracking down on crime. there aro be cracking downe thoe weren t bad reports about this group before, but thatout this group before, but th they thought obviously these weg officers were acting in a waya that s completely inconsistent y that swith training, with whae expect of police officers. base on yeah, i wouldn t be surprised based on what i saw in those videos., if we don if we don t find out thh there s some history with this unit, then when you have specialized street units that semiine semi independentlyd st, plainclothes, unmarked cars and that sort of thing,s, and they re on the stree t all the time. they need to be closely tim and proactively supervised. s ce and in this case, i saw no evidence whatsoever of supervision. what i saw was angry, undisciplined, unsupervised men w
n part,ere on the most part, i part because the governmento hae seems to have acted reallyally swiftly. they re getting praise swiftd bn from the family and from the family s attorney , saying, at, they firedd d the police officers, they arrested them. they charged all, they arr, fivh murder. both the family and their attorneys basically saying thibs was a good first step so far .af we re going to need to see convictions. bu.t that fear of widespread and serious violence here has not materialized. shannon, back to you.t steve , thank you.r that s so glad to hear that so far . thank you very much. so the death of jorge floyd,eorl remember sparks just defundspare the police movement and protests erupted in one hundred and forty cities across the country. 140 citimore than a dozen peopl. and the destruction caused by those protests coston insurance companies upwards of a billion dollars. it was a painful cause summer fr a lot of people on many levels.n now thaties. the body footage in t
yeah, there s been s some praise even froham benjamin e atp, who is the attorney, one of the attorneys assisting tothe family in the situation, saying that this should be a model for how quicklypolice depr the police department worked and also abouttmt how the distrb attorney worked there. f think we havite a little bit o what he said about how thisthis played out in this case, how fast the police chief ofpoli the policece c department terminated the and we look at what the district attorney bothr charges. this is the blueprinought going forward. and this time any of us will be black, will be held in. so, commissioner, he talkst th about the swift response. we ve covered cases like this. you whu ve tracked them in the pasvt where therere have been weeks, months, even years, sometimes ys before the video comes forward,s