we could start to see one or two of these officers kind of peel away to try to maybe get a reduced sentence? well, you know, victor, that has come up and all of these cases, that s always a looming question. now typically those plea agreements happen when a particular defendant may have some evidence or information to give that could further implicate someone else that s involved in the criminal charges, in this case we look at these videos and say, look, the prosecutors don t need to make deals you about i think that s a short-sighted analysis because we have not seen as we heard from the prosecutor as well as from these defense attorneys all of the evidence so once those defense attorneys start going through those videotapes and really slowing down looking at the actions frame by frame of the clients they represent, i would not be surprise fundamental we didn t see some of them trying to separate themselves, saying that their guy wasn t as culpable as some of the other guys that we
who work domestic terrorism and hate crimes investigations are looking at the evidence in this case, looking at the shooter s past. working to determine if any federal charges will be brought here, victor. josh campbell with the reporting. let s bring in jeffrey abrams, regional director of the anti-defamation league of lance. let me first get your reaction to the news of the arrest. well, victor, it is good to see you again, and we re very happy to learn of this arrest, because this community, the jewish community in los angeles is on edge right now. it was troubling to hear that last interview with that person speaking about not wanting to go to synagogue. not wants her kids to wear anything that identifies them as a jew. we are appreciate of all law enforcement, fbi, u.s. attorney for taking the first step which is to arrest the perpetrator. yeah, it was difficult to listen to that mom saying she
right, victor. this is a typical sign of a severe depression. most people usually have the sadness, the emptiness, feeling hopeless. but here what we re seeing for him to stop the intake of water and food really does speak to something much more severe going on. they have identified it as a clinical depression. he s been hospitalized for it. so it does seem to be something that is severe, but the good news is, of course there are treatments, the psycho therapy, the anti-depressants and other medications. of course, they re going to stabilize him while he s in the hospital and he went in voluntarily. that s also good news. he didn t have to be committed for a 72-hour hold. that was my next question. i want to hear more about that. the anti-depressants and psycho therapy can happen outpatient, but he voluntarily checked himself in to walter reed.
they ll look he told me outside of court it would be about a hundred cases. the significance of that, just one final note, these cases could potentially be dismissed which, you know, presents a big problem here for the city. yeah, certainly, shimon prokopecz there in memphis with the reporting, thank you. let s bring in now civil rights attorney and legal affairs commentator areva martin, training and culture major components driving the conversation about policing. i wonder, first, let s start with the hundred cases in that review. 75 for scorpion, about 25 for officer hemphill if you don t recognize the name he was caught on body camera saying i hope they stomp his ass. what do those reviews look like? well, first of all, victor, it s going to be a very grueling process and the issue here is, has testimony gun biven by these five officers that now should be called into question, because what we know from these officers
involving that involve some of these officers, whether they were arrests, officers these officers had made arrests or whether they were witnesses, the d.a. saying he s now reviewing those cases. take a listen to what more he said. they are proactively reviewing all the cases involving the five officers plus officer hemphill. the five officers total 75 cases. there s going to be an additional number, i don t know the exact number with officer hemphill then, of course, beyond that if there are individual cases that people bring to our attention whether there s a credible reason to review it, we will review that as well. how concerned are you over some of the activity there that has come to light? i m very concerned. i think anybody would be very concerned. reporter: and, victor, we heard from community members who had ain t acted with this unit which is now no longer, the scorpion unit, that raised issues and the d.a. is saying