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cnn. pamela? thanks, chris. who s talking to chris wallace airs at 7:00 tonight on cnn. and the next hour of cnn newsroom on this sunday starts newsroom on this sunday starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m pamela brown in washington. the top stories for you tonight, lawmakers are demanding actions days after five police officers are charged in the beating death of tyre nichols. can the federal government do anything to change culture inside many of these departments? plus the man who disarmed the monterey park gunman is haled a gunman, as california sees four mass shootings in one week. and it s a fight over books in florida. teachers say they have to keep students away from books already in their libraries until state-approved groups decide if they re appropriate. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with the brutal beating of tyre nichols. today the attorney for his family told cnn that he hopes the video that outrage ....
Listen to what house judiciary chair jim jordan said this morning. what strikes me is just the lack of respect for human life. so, i don t know that any law, any training, any reform is going to change that this man was handcuffed. they continued to beat him. i don t think these five guys represent the vast, vast majority of law enforcement. but i don t know if there s anything you can do to stop the kind of evil we saw in that video. what do you think about what you just heard from him, kristen? yeah, i do think there s a way to stop it. and it goes back to what we were just talking about, a culture, an organization. we know that policy says thou shalt not commit excessive force. but we know culture eats policy for breakfast. and we know these men had body cams on and still acted the way they did, policed the way they did, borrowed power from their position. and that is a culture problem. ....
That s a bad thing, as long as you have the appropriate personnel in those types of i needed that much supervision. and i thrived in units like these for more than two decades. on the lack of training part, kristen, you agree with that, right, that there is a lack of training? saying in this tweet, lack of training, lack of ohumanity, you can fix the former. how do we instill in our police officers the value of every human life? how do we get out ahead of these certain cops who appear to show so little regard for humanity, kristen? actually, first of all, i want to echo the idea of these units. these units that are run with nobility and honor and training, who truly go out there into our neighborhoods and do the job that needs to be done but without, you know, acting like a ....
After memphis shut down its now scorpion unit, other cities may be asking whether keeping these special crime fighting squads is helping or hurting their city s mission to protect and serve. joining us is michael fanone and kristen zeman, former police chief in aurora, illinois. michael, do special units like this do more good than harm or vice versa? well, you re asking somebody that spent almost two decades in a unit or units very similar to these. so, my answer would be that they re invaluable. i mean, they fill a specific role within a police department, i think, that no other unit can ....
Agencies, we create this void. you know, we did it in 2015 in washington, d.c. we removed vice units, our specialized units, and the void is still felt in the department today. you know, these are pipelines for your investigative units, for your detectives, for your homicide detectives, district-wide detectives. quite frankly, what we re dealing with right now, at least in my old department, is a lot of detectives that didn t have this experience coming up because these units weren t there, and they re garbage. so, i think that that you know, we need to think about that before we start making these knee-jerk reactions to what really is and i understand the emotion behind all of this. but what really is not reflective of the greater example that s put forth every single day by our police officers in this country. kristen, i want you to take a ....