the justice department has just issued a scathing and disturbing report on the louisville police department nearly two years after a nearly two year civil rights investigation. now, attorney general merrick garland launched this probe in the months after the louisville police shot and killed an unarmed black woman, breonna taylor inside of her home. a short time ago garland explained that that botched raid in march of 2020 was part of a practice of abuses by the city. the pd leader told the department breonna taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years. the justice department s findings in the report that we are releasing today bear that out. and listen to this, these are just some of the very ugly examples that garland cited today. the justice department has also identified deficiencies in lmpd s response to and investigation of domestic violence and sexual assault. lmpd has relied heavily on pretextual traffic stops in black neighborhoods. some have vi
top of the hour this friday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and right now all five former police officers charged with murder and other charges in the death of tyre nichols are inside of a memphis courthouse. they are set to be arraigned on seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. this morning the shelby county district attorney said that the prosecutors are still looking into charging a sixth former officer who tased nichols in the traffic stop that night as well as others possibly. we are looking at everybody who was involved directly or indirectly in death of tyre nichols, and this is officer hemphill and those who showed up after the beating had concluded, and we will do what we can as quickly as we can, but thoroughly. now, we are still waiting for the release of 20 hours of additional footage from deadly beating and the aftermath, and it could be relevant, and cnn s shimon prokupiez is there at the courthouse, and i understand that
good afternoon. i m kasie hunt in washington. right now the family of tyre nichols is speaking out after all five former memphis police officers appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to his murder. for the first time since nichols death his parents were in the same room with the men who brutally beat their son last month after a traffic stop. we have to start this process of justice right now. and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. they didn t do that today. they didn t even have the courage to look at me in my face. each ex-officer is facing seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. what is the latest? reporter: yeah. it was their initial appearance for the first time, we got to see them inside the courtroom where they pleaded not guilty and the legal battle getting under way. attorneys indicating this was going to be a vigorous fight. they feel the district at
delays they aren t on account of any of your actions. to those in attendance as i explained to the defendants this can take some time so we ask for your patience, your continued patience, your continued civility in this case. we understand there may be some high emotions in this case but we ask that you continue to be patient with us. everyone involved wants this case to be concluded as quickly as possible. but it s important for you all to understand that the state as well as each one of these defendants have an absolute right to a fair trial. tyre nichols family was in the courtroom as well. his mother said that she wanted the officers to see her face. i feel very numb and i m waiting for this nightmare basically that i m going through right now, i m waiting for somebody to wake me up, right. i m really waiting for somebody to wake me up but i also know that s not going to happen, okay, i know my son is gone. i know i ll never see him again. i want each and every one o
reorganization. we ll talk to the mayor and plus this. that is violence, serious violence escalating between israel and palestinians. and a mysterious drone strike against iran stoking tension in the region as america s top diplomat heads to jerusalem in the thick of it. facing a major test as this situation continues. a bombastic warning from a top u.s. general who is predicting war with china potentially. we re going to start though with the memphis police department permanently shutting down the scorpion unit after the savage and deadly beating of tyre nichols. the special unit is once celebrated for cracking down on high crime areas. it is now coming under intense scrutiny. the big question is was tyre nichols the only one? or did other people also suffer brutal treatment? you re going to stay on top of this. it has a very as i understand it, sketchy track record. well, we re hearing that certainly from people in the community. you were there. people would come