enforcement and systemic change. after george floyd said never again, yet here we are. i will ask what he and his colleagues plan to do next time. and if there is will, what is the way to fix this country s broken system. this is american voices. we begin this hour with new action from the memphis police department following the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. memphis pd eight now deactivating the departments scorpion unit which was launched in 2021 to fight the city s rising murder rate. nbc news confirms all five officers charged with second degree murder in nichols death were members of the scorpion unit. this also raises new questions. why would a unit focused on violent crime take their time to enforce traffic violations? this beating all started with a traffic stop, officers at the time said the 29 year old was driving recklessly. the department has since said no video evidence backs of that claim. now i need to warn you that the video you re about to see is in
accountability from all forsman and systemic change. after george floyd, never again. here we are. are going to ask congressman eric swallow what he has caused blood to do this time. since there is what is the way to fix this country s broken system? this is american voices. we begin this hour with new action from memphis police department following the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. that the speedy now deactivating the scorpion unit, launched in 2021 to fight the cities rise and murder rate. nbc news confirms all five officers charged with second degree murder and nichols death were members of the scorpion unit. also raises new questions. why would a unit focused on violent crime take their time to enforce traffic violations? speeding all started with the traffic stop. officers at the time said the 29-year-old was driving recklessly. department has since that, no video evidence backs of that claim. mid morning, the video you re about to see is incredibly graphic.
comcast business. powering possibilities. i m gassed with sudan. if you re just joining us, welcome. it s good to see you. thank you for sticking around if you re sticking with us. we re just days away from an emotional farewell in memphis. the funeral for tyre nichols, killed at the hands of police. the unit that deployed the five officers now charged has been disbanded. it s just one of the actions the community is calling for after the release of that horrifying video. i m going to be talking to a police expert this hour. we re following some breaking political news. just days from now, a showdown between kevin mccarthy and president biden on the debt ceiling. we re going to meet this wednesday. the president said he did not want to have discussions. i think it s important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. they can take control of this runaway spending. coming up, i m going to speak to congressman adam schiff. he got kicked off the house intel c
contingencies. hello ,welcome to the programme, plenty to look forward to this evening, including joe biden s pending arrival in northern ireland. this was him departing joint base andrews earlier this afternoon. air force one expected just after nine, we will take you to live to that when it lands. elsewhere, we will discuss the latest assessment on the world economy. the imf warning today we are locked into a perilous phase of low economic growth. what does that mean for disposable income and our collective spending power? and what about those leaked us documents? the washington post reporting today that egypt, one of the united states oldest allies in the middle east, had secretly planned to supply rockets to russia. all that to come. but we start in belfast, where a huge security operation is in place tonight forjoe biden s imminent arrival. the main event, a speech tomorrow, at the new, ulster university campus. where it is understood the president will talk about the
need to restructure, we need to reconfigure the way in which we police. here we are still waiting for real reform to the way policing is conducted in this country. laura: actually the reform and al sharpton and others are pining for already happened necessity memphis. that police department already revised its policies following the murder of george floyd. the effort was called re-imagine policing in memphis. now, it was called reimagining policing but what was re-imagined? it was re-imagined with awful consequences. in addition to addressing excessive force the department also loosened its hiring standards. in fact, two of the five officers involved in the killing of nichols were hired during this period. so when folks like cory booker or al sharpton blame this this shows the overwhelming need for what they call police reform, i agree. we need to reform their reforms. like memphis, chicago lowered its hiring standards for police in 2022. they were following the likes of