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.
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related to racism. the problem is black matters live activists have been saved decades, it s not that individual officers hate black people or other minorities. is that america s police departments deployed and train their officers to view everyday citizens as threats to the officers safety, disruptions to society resulting and needlessly into killing. sean, your thoughts? yeah. to take it a little further, we then have a system that rewards, allows, doesn t punish folks for it. it s not just the system creates it. it actually incentivizes it. the problem with some of these choices, stop and these choices, just fire. yes, they fired. yes, we do with getting rid of the scorpion unit. that was part of the demand of oklahoma organizers. the demand of color changing others. we also need to deal with the