vice president kamala harris plans to attend along with keisha lance boughts and mitch landrieu. tomorrow night we ll speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment and what justice in this case looks like. but tonight sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney, benjamin crump, are gathered at the historic mason temple to discuss how authorities continue to investigate nichols death. the memphis fire department fired two medics and a lieutenant who all failed to give nichols medical attention in the immediate aftermath as theia officers who had just bean him laughed on the side lines. in addition to that the memphis police department confirmed yesterday that two other memphis officers on the scene that night have been suspended since january 8th. one of those two officers is a man named prestten hemphill. nichols family attorney and civil rights lawyer ben crump says hemphill is the one who pulled nichols
that s coming a into those all.nities at that makes absolute sense. i ve got to ask you it s not just obviously memphis who has have the scorpion units. there s a unit in new york city that s give that sounds nice, there s one in baltimore. do you think the death of tyre nichols is going to prompt a real soul-searching about the necessity of these things or do you think each city tells a different story about what s happening? well, it absolutely should, and it s quitelu disheartening hear that governor hochul in new york is considering expanding these types of units in the state. that isni absolutely the wrong thing to do. that is the wrong direction to go in. we should be reducing the footprint of police in our society overall, not expanding them and certainly not funding and deputizing these specialized units that operate outside the bounds of general oversight and authoritysi that most police uns and regular police officers had