together. embracing whatever the college on board putsd togetherpu. in last 15 or 20 years, in my view, college board hass be become radicalized. you can imagine. academia, radical left, american marxists. it is like water with cracks. they finmad theigir way, whether the madison home or jefferson s home, they want to control who you think you about even wha more they want ts control w what your kids think.g in. but in florida you have a governor in ron desantis who says no. i m not permitting it.t go we put billions to ourwe public school system, we are not subsidizings teaching of the destruction of honest american history. a anndd our curriculum.ng we r ie not giving in we ll fight it. h he is really one of the fewrs governors who will do it.s this is isa very importantt issue. because so faris he is the only governor who has stood up again college board to fight this particular course e wh. justs with disney, anti-gay law, which had nothing to do with gayness was antistop
schools from teaching classes on african american history. plus, we will speak to the director of the oscar nominated documentary, stranger in the gate, the powerful story about how love and community can instill islamophobia in a small american town. that coming out, good evening. you know it stood out to me, as you at-home watched the videos of the brutal police assault of a 29-year-old father, and amateur photographer tyre nichols in memphis. he died in hospital, three days later on january 10th. the moment where he called out to his mother. he screamed her name, again and again. i don t know about you, but that broke me. not going to play for you tonight, because i m sure you have all seen some of those videos on this network. another networks, on social media. if you haven t, you can go watch it somewhere, you can go see for yourself tyre nichols, an unarmed fedex worker weighing 140 pounds, getting pepper sprayed, taser, punched, kicked, and repeatedly hit with a ba
i am just trying to go home. brian: you see an officer approach tyre nichols with their guns drawn and yank him out of his vehicle. he threw them to the ground. he was on the ground and put his hands behind his back. a few moments later you see him get up and run. multiple officers repeatedly punch him and pepper spray him. you see an for walk up and kick him in the head two times. they strike him with a baton over and over again. later dragged and propped up against a police car. he didn t receive any medical attention even though there were medical personnel there. he would die two days later in the hospital. people in memphis and across the country are protesting, but there is no widespread violence. but fear of it does remain. almost universal agreement this is unacceptable. the you five officers are black. they are members of an elite unit. they require specific qualifications and training. it is inactive now since nichols passed away. the officers have been fired and ch
hours later. watch outs. awe so according to one friend the 29-year-old wanted to be a police officer himself. i ve been inundated asking for my take my opinion but this goes far beyond one point of view law enforcement officers in tennessee and across the country frankly are absolutely appalled by the countless policies these former officers ignored. there were members of the now disbanned elite unit. but they broke basic safety protocols, it just makes you question what happened before the crams started rolling because they arrived at the scene totally out of control. calls are growing loudser for better police training and yes there is a need for that. but these men failed in simple policing 101. i m not sure training would help them here. they ve dishonored their badge while they face punishment for their crimes it is their fellow officer who is will face the fallout you we know there s still conversations still to be had. but could at its core what happened to tyre i
country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protesters yest