before moving in on the shooter. this despite records showing that the local police chief completed active shooter training in december that calls on police to do the exact opposite. meanwhile, president biden fresh from his visit to uvalde has promised action on gun reform. the question this morning, will congress follow through. and will this latest tragedy actually move republicans the president in the last hour seems to think so. i haven t spoken to them, i think they ll have to take a hard look. plus, more heartbreaking stories are emerging from the violence, including one from a teacher, who told her students to hit the floor, just seconds before bullets ripped through her classroom windows. i just kept hearing, boom, boom, boom. it kept going off, it felt like an eternity. and i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. and nbc s ken brock is here with me. nbc s julia ainsley will be here in a moment. sam, you ve been here the last couple
council meeting with the city attorney telling me in addition to the six officers who have been terminated for their role in the tyre nichols death, seven others will face discipline. these officers are expected to be disciplined bringing the total to 13 officers who have been or will be disciplined for their role in the tyre nichols stop. these officers were not identified nor were details given as to their environment. the city council meeting was tense at times. there was a tense exchange between one councilman and the police chief here. the councilman was like where s waldo in the days after this incident was made public. she asked if what happened to tyre nichols was a culture problem within the police department or a training problem. listen to her response. culture is not something that changes overnight. you know, there s a saying in
waldo? in the days after this incident took place. she asked whether what happened to nichols was a culture problem or a training problem. here s what she had to say. culture is not something that changes overnight. you know, there is a saying in law enforcement that culture eats policy for lunch. we don t want to just have good policies. because policies can be navigated around. we want to ensure that we have the right people in place to ensure our culture is evolving and it s changing to the philosophy that we re talking about. the reforming and the reimagining of what policing looks like in our community. so having the right people in the right place at the right time is criminally important. there were more than a dozen public safety reforms on the agenda, including support for the george floyd justice in policing act. it was a well-attended city council meeting, jake, with those that attended being very clear that they want the end to plains clothes and unmarked cars being us
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 cut the cake. i got stuck there for a number of reasons. i didn t have a lot of hooks when i went there. i was in a lot of foot pursuits and vehicle pursuits. there is so much commentary out there from people who have no idea what it s like to be a police officer. i felt i had to come out at the beginning of my show and give you my perspective. a couple things i heard. we need better training. that is bull and you can figure out the rest. this is not a training problem. in what world would a privilege be trained to soccer kick
programs and i have written them. this isn t in any training. the training thing is a red herring argument for people to come in who don t have law enforcement and your understand in mind to profit off these times of things with these woke-type programs that will only destroy law enforcement. it s not a training problem. what is it, then? this is a personnel problem. we have been attacking police department well we haven t, but the woke left have been attacking police departments. this is what nobody wants to talk about. this is what the left want to avoid. the show is called unfiltered for a reason because we give you the unfiltered school on what s going on. and we don t fold to pressure. the endless wars on police departments on for years amongst a lot of swamp-like