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you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today the attorney for the family of tyre nichols is calling the video of the 29-year-old being beaten by officers a watershed moment, one that the attorney hopes will lead to federal police legislation reform. late yesterday, we learned that the memphis police department had shut down the controversial scorpion unit that the officers charged in this killing belonged to. that news coming less than 24 hours after graphic video of tyre nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, i want to warn our viewers, what you re about to watch is disturbing. ah! mom! mother mom! give me your fucking hands, man! give me your fucking hands! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. isobel, what led to the chief deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, ji ....
Deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, jim. so what we are witnessing here is the aftermath of those videos of witnessing a man just calling out for his mother, over and over again, saying that he just wants to go home. video so brutal that it s time and time again been compared to the 1992 beating of rodney king. so what has happened here in memphis is that the police chief, sherrilyn c.j. davis met with members of this scorpion unit, members not involved in this beating of tyre nichols, and they determined that it was in the best interest of the community to disband. this goes directly to the wishes of tyre nichols mother and father, to the family attorneys, and to activists who said that this was the only step forward to permanently deactivate that unit. so here s what we know about that scorpion unit. it is a specialized unit that is relatively new, jim. ....