later that day, memphis state has tornado warnings in the greater memphis area. there was a scheduled rally that at the nearby mason temple, and he doesn't think that there's going to be a large turnout because of the increment weather. so he's since reverend ambassador andrew young, a young reverend jesse jackson, to speak for him in his place reverend jesse jackson, andy young and reverend abernathy arrive at the mason temple and they see over 2000 people have come in the weather and they're all applauding, thinking that dr. king is right behind them. and once they realize this. this was dr. king's crowd. reverend abernathy calls the mason temple. he calls dr. king at the lorraine, and he urges and him to come and greet the guests that have comen e weather to hear him. once dr. king arrives about minutes later, he says something this night that hen't said in any of his other profound speeches in the past 12 years during his duration as a leader in. this movement like anybody i would like to live a long life longevity has its place but i'm not concerned about th

later that day, memphis state has tornado warnings in the greater memphis area. there was a scheduled rally that at the nearby mason temple, and he doesn't think that there's going to be a large turnout because of the incremental weather. so he's since reverend amssador andrew young, a young reverend jesse jackson, to speak for him in his place reverend jesse jackson, andy young and reverend abernathy arrive at the mason temple and they see over 2000 people have come in the weather and they're all applauding, thinking that dr. king is right behind them. and once they realize this. this was dr. king's crowd. reverend abernathy calls the mason temple. he calls dr. king at the lorraine, and he urges and him to come and greet the guests that have come in the weather to hear him speak. once dr. king arrive abo minutes later, he says something on this night that he hadn't said in any ofther profound speeches in the past 12 years during his duration as a leader in. this movement like anybody i would like to live a long life longevity has its place but i'm not concerned

what do you want to tell america about memphis tonight? >> memphis will recover from this. and we will have things in place, i hope we will have things in place, that will honor the sacrifice that mr. nichols pit with his live. >> what can you tell us about the memphis police department? because those five men -- there is no way, there's no way they represent law enforcement in your town. >> that's what i want to emphasize. first and foremost, this does not represent the entire memphis police department. is there need, here and the memphis police department, and probably nation wide, for cultural change? yes there is. but by no means do i think that it's going to be indicative of what will be the -- what will be the emmy for most police officers. i'm reminded of some comments i heard, there are certain industries where you don't need any -- airplane pallets and police officers. those are the ones that you don't want to have people who are the bad actors of the back players. we hope that through this, we are going to have reviews, we're gonna have investigations, and talk ab

later that day, memphis state has tornado warnings in the greater memphis area. there was a scheduled rally that at the nearby mason temple, and he doesn't think that there's going to be a large turnout because of the incrental weather. so he's since reverend ambassador andrew young, a young reverend jesse jackson, to speak for him in his place reverend jesse jackson, andy young and reverend abernathy arrive at the mason temple and they see over 2000 people have come in the weather and they're all applauding, thinking that dr. king is right behind them. and once they realize this. this was dr. king's crowd. reverend abernathy calls the mason temple. he calls dr. king at the lorraine, and he urges and him to come and greet the guests that have n the weather to hear himpeak. once dr. king arrives about on this night that he hadn'thing said in any of his other profound speeches in the past 12 years during his duration as a leader in. this movement like anybody i would like to live a long life longevity has its place but i'm not concerned about that now i just want t

later that day, memphis state has tornado warnings in the greater memphis area. there was a scheduled rally that at the nearby mason temple, and he doesn't think that there's going to be a large turnout because of the incremental weathe so he's since revend ambassador andrew young, a young reverend jesse jackson, to speak for him in his place reverend jesse jackson, andy young and reverend abernathy arrive at the mason temple and they see over 2000 people have come in the weather and they're all applauding, thinking that dr. king is right behind them. and once they realize this. this was dr. king's crowd. reverend abernathy calls the mason temple. he calls dr. king at the lorraine, and he urges and him to come and greet the guests that have come in the weather to hear him speak. r. king arrives about minutes later, he says something on this night th hadn't said in any of his other profound speeches in the past 12 years during his duration as a leader in. this movement like anybody i would like to live a long life longevity has its place but i'm not concerned abou

amy: ahead of the video's release today at 6:00 memphis time, the memphis poli departnt has activated its entire force in anticipation of weekend protests. president biden released a statement reading, “i join tyre's family in calling for peaceful protest. outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable.” after headlines, we'll speak with ben crump, attorney for tyre nichols' family. as well as a member of black lives matter memphis. in georgia, republican gov. brian kemp on thursday declared a state of emergency in response to mass protests that erupted in response to the police killing of environmental defender manuel teran in atlanta last week. the declaration gives kemp the power to deploy up to 1,000 national guard troops over the next 15 days to quell the mobilizations. teran, who went by the name tortuguita, was shot dead by a swat team january 18 as officers violently raided an encampment of protesters opposed to “cop city," a proposed $90 million police training facility in a public forest in atlanta. the atlanta community press collective tweeted, "the true

there is breaking news from memphis. today the city's police department said it would shut down the crime fighting unit that included officers charged in the death of tyre nichols. the so-called s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit had a reputation for using aggressive tactics. those officers now fired, face second-degree murder and other charges in the death of the 29-year-old following his violent arrest earlier this month. today people in memphis turned out to demonstrate after videos were released showing nichols anguished as officers hit him with a baton and repeatedly punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed him. in a tweet today, former president barack obama described those actions as vicious and unjustified and a painful reminder how far america still has to go in fixing how we police our streets. cbs's elise preston is in memphis tonight and leads us off. good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, adriana. there are still a few protesters here. the weather has largely stopped people from coming out. we have to warn you. some o

nowhere near memphis, physically or culturally. cities that have nothing to do with memphis at all. they are the opposite of memphis. seattle, portland, oregon. antifa is apparently planning riots in those places tonight. why, is the question. first of the fact of it. jason rantz covers the pacific northwest for us. he joins us tonight. hey, jason. >> hey, tucker. yeah, we are starting to see some organizing in portland and seattle, but also new york city. we see that a lot of police department's are assuming there's going be civil unrest from these groups because of the way that they have operated over the course of the last couple years. and this is going to be a little bit of a test for these antifa activists, because they have effectively changed the way that they organize. they used to do a lot of this very much in the open. they did it openly on twitter. but now they have sort of learned their lesson and they have been going to apps like signal or mastodon or telegram would have more control as to who actually has access to the information they are putting out there for the or

first, major developments in from memphis, tennessee. tonight we learned two more officers were disciplined and relieved of duty in the deadly beating of tear tire. also tonight, three memphis fire department emts were fired in connection with the case. they allegedly stood around without administering care for nearly seven minutes. also new tonight, tyre nichols' parents will attend president biden's state of the union address next week as guests of the congressional black caucus. elise preston are start us off from memphis tonight. >> reporter: we are just learning the three former fire fishers could face criminal charges. the fallout over the brutal beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols sparked nationwide outrage and pngs.preston hemphill, have been relieveof duty pending an internal investigation. hemphill was captured on police body cam pulling nichols from the car at the first traffic stop and tasing him. after nichols runs away, hemphill could be heard saying this -- >> i hope they stomp his as. >> reporter: hemphill was not present

i do believe what you will see is peaceful protests in the city of memphis. there are a couple of organizations that are organizing right now, one near the news station, one getting ready to organize near the organized crime unit location. so people are preparing for protests, but we do believe it's going to be peaceful. >> let's hope they are peaceful. your police chief there in memphis tells cnn there's no evidence tyre nichols was actually driving recklessly and his mother says she believes police attempted a cover-up in the aftermath. does this raise broader questions about the culture of the memphis police department? >> well, absolutely. i do believe it raises more questions. if you paid attention to what happened in memphis after the wake of george floyd in 2020, our council proposed several initiatives to target police reform and our police department pushed back pretty harshly, sternly against those reforms. i do believe that they're going to be in a hard position to push back because there's council members ready to introduce legislation to target p

. >> reporter: memphis police chief c.j. davis said she could only stomach watching the video once and says she still doesn't understand why the officers went so far. >> it's very puzzling for me that i don't have the information that i need to at least understand what started this. this started there the moment they got out of their cars, an that piece, i've never seen before. >> reporter: across the country, law enforcement has been replacing -- bracing for the possibility that demonstrations turn violent, beefing up security in severa major cities. officials expect the public to have a range of emotions just as they did in 1991 when the rodney king video surfaced. you know, the similar at this for me was rodney king, and i was an officer back during that time, too. that came to mind for me, on this video. to me, there was a level of group-think, you know, that there was no one that, you know, isolated themselves or stepped out to say, "stop, we got him" or whatever the case is. "that's enough." >> reporter: and one portio

stay with us, our special coverage in memphis continues. a lot to get here throughout the day. >>> certainly something everyone in washington is watching what you're doing in memphis as well. >>> we are learning new reporting this morning on the investigation into the hush money payments to the former adult actress, stormy daniels and former president trump's alleged involvement in the payments. this morning new details show how involved they believe the president was, it comes from the book "untouchable: how powerful people get away with it". it's authored by e lee honig. the reporting you have is fascinating. it's saying days before trump was leaving office, the prosecutors in new york were looking to charge him with campaign finance violations when he was out of office. what did you learn? >> there was high stakes meetings within the southern district of new york. we know that the southern district could not indict donald trump before because he was the sitting president but he was the focus of the investigation on the campaign finance c

cbs's elise preston will start us off tonight from memphis. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we are just learning those three former fire officials could face criminal charges. fallout over the brutal beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols sparked nationwide outrage and protests. cbs news has learned two more police officers including preston hemphill have been relieved of duty pending an internal investigation. >> i'm not doing anything. >> hemphill was captured on police body cam pulling nichols from the car at the first traffic stop. >> freeze. >> reporter: and tasing him. after nichols runs away, hemphill could be heard saying this. >> i hope they stomp his ass. >> reporter: hemphill was not present when officers from the scorpion unit took nichols down a second time. they were seen kicking, punching, and striking him with a baton while he was restrained. nichols died in the hospital three days later. >> everyone needs to see what the memphis police department did to my son. >> get on the ground! >> reporter: during the

cbs' elise preston will start us off from memphis tonight. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening norah. we are just learning the three former fire officials could face criminal charges. the fallout over the brutal beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols sparked nationwide outrage and protests. cbs news has learned two more police officers, including preston hemphill, have been relieved of duty pending an internal investigation. hemphill was captured on police body cam pulling nichols from the car at the first traffic stop... >> freeze! >> reporter: ...and tasing him. after nichols runs away, hemphill could be heard saying this-- >> i hope they stomp his ass. >> reporter: hemphill was not present when officers from the scorpion unit took nichols down a second time. they were seen kicking, punching, and striking him with a baton while he was restrained. nichols died in the hospital three days later. >> everyone needs to see what the memphis police department did to my son. >> get on the ground! >> reporter: during the assault, officers gav

back to memphis done will be joined boy a memphis city council woman about what her community is going through in the wake of these videos coming out. also the pastor of the church will funeral services will be held for tyre nichols next week. that as cnn tonight continues. ♪. ♪ . . >>> back in memphis with special live coverage. city releasing videos of the police beating of tyre nichols, i'm joined by council woman patrice robinson, we're grateful you're here helping us get through this and talk about the horrible video so that you could see it. you saw it noon today >> yes >> and now for the general public to see, what's your reaction. >> saddened but i knew it would be difficult because i am a mother. and i have a son. and my heart went out to the family and the community and all the families that have lost loved ones to policing that's not favorable. i'm exacerbated and that is the truth. >> there's a big gasp what was that for. >> it's tough for us as a city, for me personally tough for the community and i'm getting messages from all over the united states and canada i have p

it is still early in memphis. back to you, sean. >> sean: gianno, as i'm watching this -- you are a friend of mine. you lost a family member. your brother was killed, senseless violence in chicago. i can't even imagine the pain that this family is going through. you probably can relate to it, because your brother was innocent and he was murdered in the streets of chicago. >> unfortunately i can relate to, but i will tell you, one of the things that i appreciate his justice, and these men, these police officers will have their day in court, but ultimately what people want his justice, just like i want for my family and my baby brother, christian. >> sean: all right. gianno caldwell, as always, think of being with us. great reporting tonight. the a to for all the people protesting peacefully, we hope that continues throughout the night and we will monitor all throughout the evening on the fox news channel. stay with our continuing coverage, and we are going to hand it off now. unfortunately that's all the time we ha

have a look. >> we have to build a better memphis. we've got to build a better memphis for mr. nichols. we have to let his legacy, his sacrifice, the sakkcrifice that this mother would not have her son anymore, we cannot let this go unaddressed. we cannot let this go unaddressed. so, you know, i hope that -- well, i'm sure my colleague will stand with me. we're going to have to have tough conversations. people want to say these were black officers on a black man, but i go back to some words that i said previously. it's the culture of policing that says that when you have a black man, we can treat him any type of way. we have to change the culture of police and hold people accountable. >> and we'll have much more on this story in the hour ahead where i'll be speaking with two former police officers about the need for police reform in the wake of tyre nichols' killing. >> before we go, the nba grizzlies held a moment of silence friday night in memory of tyre nichols. grizzlies' head coach jenkins says it's heartbreaking. here he is. >> our team understands the city is hurting. th

lastly, eugene, we've been covering the tragedy in memphis. what more should we expect to hear from lawmakers on this, and do we think this will give new life to trying to pass the george floyd policing act? >> we've seen democrats, especially those in the congressional black caucus, speak out about the need to pass that act that did not make it past the house in the last congressional session. they'll have a much more difficult time being in the minority right now, but we know that cbc is hoping to meet with biden to see what they can do to move this forward, given where they stand in terms of power. >> that'll be a hot topic as well this week. reporter for axios, eugene scott, great to see you. thanks for being with us. >>> thanks for getting up "way too early" on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >> no mother, no mother, no mother should go through what i'm going through right now. no mother. to lose their child to the violent way that i lost my child. i want to say to the five police

sara sidner is in memphis. these videos are incredibly difficult to watch, to listen to, to process. wha what has been the renatural gas memphis last night and also this morning? >> reporter: it's been peaceful. there have been protests. there were protesters on the i-55 bridge that goes north and south through memphis. but they stopped traffic and they did so because they wanted people to stop and think about what has been going on here, not just when it comes to tyre nichols, who they were calling for justice for, but what has happened in the past between the police and members of the community, specifically black members of the community here in memphis. the protesters, unlike the family, were actually unhappy with how the police chief has responded. while the family has been saying that they are pleased that this was such a swift response, the police chief who's been here over a year now, she fired these officers immediately upon understanding that something was wrong. she herself thought that the report ba

he is there live in memphis. you know, obviously, as people are grieving, the question is, where do we go from here? >> yeah, that is the open question. how is that gulf between the police department and the communities going to be met? how are they going to repair that relationship? obviously, what justice is going to look like for tyre nichols' family as we move forward here, amara. a very painful moment for this city and really for the country. >> thank you so much, everyone. s and effortlessly respononds to both of you. our smsmart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleeeep number. ♪3, 4♪ ♪ ♪hey♪ ♪ ♪are you ready for me♪ ♪are you ready♪ ♪are you ready♪

thank you for joining us. >>> we start with new developments out of memphis. the police department announcing today it is disbanding the scorpion unit. >> it comes one day after video was released showing five of that unit officers meeting nichols. nichols later died. the move comes after both the nichols

the issues in memphis are not unique to memphis. they are issues the country is struggling. >> we will talk to other people about that very thing. tim, you have worked as a civil rights attorney, county prosecutor. how much of what happened to tyre nichols is systemic within police departments? they were part of this scorpion squad which may have been part of the bad culture there. >> working in reverse order, a lot of departments have specialized groups to target high crime areas where there's a large amount of calls for services. often -- sometimes those groups form dysfunctional norms as we say in law enforcement. these beliefs that they are outside of the normal operating range of law enforcement. i believe that these officers came in with implicit bias. it doesn't matter their ethnicity. they see people of a certain way. they form a reason for stopping the car. when that didn't go the way they anticipated, they really became emotionally hijacked. you see this rage coming out as being described by those who have seen the video,

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memphis, there has been peaceful protest and calm in the city of memphis tonight which is in line with the wishes of tyre nichols's mother, can you tell us what the community is feeling and what you're seeing this evening? >> yes, laura. as you say the world is watching, and everything tonight has been in my eyes beautiful. not only because it was peaceful, but because it was direct, it was focused. it was bringing memphis together as we always do and it's calling for accountable for local leaders such as myself and those who we send to the state legislature to really have an impact on how we treat our accountable and efficiency of our law enforcement and as we see from the er video other first responders, we don't only just have mpd but the fire department has been called in question as well as employees as well as shelby county. so i think the community. >> continue, please. >> laura, i was going to say i think the community is calling for a swift and efficient action. i would say that in 2020 after the wake of george floyd and for a lot of us being our first few months in the term o

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protesters took to the streets in memphis and other cities after memphis police released body cam and surveillance video of the incident last night. nbc's sam brock joins us again with the latest. sam, good morning. >> lindsey, good morning. it has been peaceful so far. there was a planned profit test here in memphis for 3:00 this afternoon, local. the asparlas, night there is roughly 100 people or so. the protests have been going on into the interstate i-95. they blocked pet traffic from here to time. there were no contract with police, there is no destruction. as far as the video was concerned, there's so absorbing right now as we see for the first-time. it is clear to me that the police had activator body cameras for them to go to motion. we don't know at this point how many body camera videos we actually saw. our understanding is that it is. two s with two local council member though, who strongly believes that there is a likelihood that three of those responding police officers turned their body cameras off. we are still waiting for a response officially from the city on that, li

yes, thank you so much — memphis at the moment? yes, thank you so much for— memphis at the moment? yes, thank you so much for having _ memphis at the moment? yes, thank you so much for having me, - memphis at the moment? yes, thank you so much for having me, and - you so much for having me, and certainly i think what we saw in this case is much more swift action then we have seen in other cases, right? and in part, in previous cases, often times what happened is a level of secrecy is maintained, sometimes for weeks or months, certainly the officers are rarely fired this quickly, and part of what we see in this case is that municipalities can act more quickly than often times we see in other cases, and soak in part, like, this actually should set a standard of accountability, it should not be dragged out as we have seen in other cases. some families are waiting for months and weeks without even seeing the footage, and certainly we are waiting sometimes months or even years before accountability is ever introduced in these cases, and so definitely what we are seeing in this case is m

our top story: memphis _ thank you. our top story: memphis police _ thank you. our top story: | memphis police disbanded thank you. our top story: - memphis police disbanded one of its specialist squads after five officers were charged with the matter of a black motorist. the decision came a day after the release of a video showing five black officers brutally beating tyre nichols. you are watching bbc bbc news with me, monika plaha. hello. after an uneventful first half of the weekend weather—wise, sunday does look set to bring something a little livelier, with some stronger winds and some outbreaks of rain for some, particularly across the northern half of the uk. the reason — an area of low pressure pushing to the north of scotland, this frontal system which will eventually bring some outbreaks of rain. and plenty of isobars on the chart. that always shows that we will have some brisk winds. so a breezier day, really, across the board. a lot of cloud to start off in the south of england and south wales. some of that will break up, and actually for england

i think what you will see in memphis, you will see protests and they will be peaceful because the memphis police department, the sheriff's department, the district attorney as well as the administration have taken all the necessary steps to quell any potential of uprising. >> mr. jones, if the goal is and as i said, it seems as if everyone is focused on this goal, knowing the descriptions of this video, is to eliminate or reduce the possibility of violence or vandalism, what's your thought on releasing this on a friday evening when most people don't have to go to work over the weekend, how does that contribute to the goal of eliminating those possibilities? >> well, if you go back to our city council meeting on tuesday, we have members of the community to come down and they were asking for the release of the video. we have provided that, but in anticipation of that though, what is also taking place is that the charges have been levered against those individuals responsible, so i guess if i were of the administration and so this was an administrative issue, not a legislative issue that the

cnn is on the ground in memphis covering this developing story from every angle. our don lemon has been speaking to local officials and family members including the chief of police there. but first, our senior national correspondent sara sidner is joining us with the very latest developments. what should we anticipate today, sarah? >> reporter: well, we know there is going to be a prayer vigil tonight. a gathering. beyond that, it is been prayerful and peace this whole time throughout these announcements from police, throughout the firing and charges that we now know five officers charged with second-degree murder among other very serious charges. but there is a concern, there is always a concern that once this video comes out, video that has been described as appalling, extremely disturbing and inhumane, there is concern that people will react very emotionally to that. >> no mother, no mother -- >> no mother -- >> no mother should go through what i'm going through right now. >> reporter: the mother of tyre nichols full of sorrow. but also filled with concern. kno

memphis, tennessee. peaceful demonstrations are underway in response to the violent body camera video showing the traffic stop and eating up tyre nichols -- traffic stop and beating of tyre nichols. four officers are charged with attempted murder. >> that reading -- that beating took place three weeks ago tomorrow. >> protests are taking place in the bay area right now, including a demonstration and march down market street. >> we have reaction to the video and the praise memphis authorities are receiving today from nichols' emily. -- nichols' family. >> we have been hearing from officials about how would be. people have been drawing comparisons to rodney king and george floyd. shocking video came out in four different parts and featured police body camera footage and surveillance video that shows in great detail the moments after a police officer pulled over nichols' vehicle. nichols ran away after being traffic stopped, estop the police chief called into question. officers later apprehended him the vid

devante hill is founder of one memphis one vision. he told me about the mood in memphis a day after the footage was released. the temperature here in memphis is unequivocally peaceful. we always knew memphis has always been leading the charge for peaceful protests. i don't know if you remember in 2020 in the likeness of george floyd and ahmaud arbery and breonna taylor, the world was in flames and memphis was at peace and we truly began the systemic work of changing what policing looks like in memphis and changing the way we deal with issues like this, that we knew one day would actually happen in our city. and so right now, the tone and temperature is that of peace because we were met with justice before we were met with the video. the trauma changed and the song changed and so, our protest, the sound of it has to change as well — and it has. and earlier on in the program, i mentioned that special police unit, the scorpion, being disbanded in response to what happened to tyre nichols. do you think that goes far enough, and what fur

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this was a really egregious incident, and i will say that the memphis pd and the mayor of memphis did exactly the right thing. they reached out to the community, they were transparent, and they fired the officers on the spot, even though that's not protocol normally. i think it was the right thing to do. >> shannon: there has been praise even from benjamin crump, the attorney, one of the attorneys assisting the family in the situation, saying that this should be a model for how quickly the police department worked. and also about how the district attorney worked. i think we have a little bit of what he said, about how this played out. >> can we look at how fast the police chief of the police department terminated them? and we look at how swiftly the district attorney brought charges. this is the blueprint going forward, for any time any officers, black or white, will be held accountable. >> he talks about the swift response here. we have covered cases like this. you've tracked in the past, where there have been weeks, months, even years sometimes before the video comes forward. there

policies that were implemented in memphis. and yet here we are. we clearly saw those reforms fail tyre. joining me now to discuss this is new york law school professor and msnbc political analyst. it is great to have both of you with us and i hated to be on a night like this but we just want to check in with you, how are you doing and what have you've been hearing from community members in memphis around this killing? >> i have certainly been hearing exhaustion. i've also been hearing from organizers and community leaders in memphis that this was something that they predicted. they have been saying time and again that the kinds of transformations that they wanted to see in terms of public safety across the memphis regional area where is simply not being done and that the ones that were being done were -- as you said in the intro, the reforms that have been passed to field tyre. if the reforms were working than terry would be at home playing with his son, watching the sunset, and skateboarding before he went home to see his parents. but instead, we

good luck to you and all the folks in memphis. appreciate it very much. >>> right now turning back to legal and law enforcement experts for more analysis and baccari what stands out from what the executive director of the memphis naacp just told me? >> you know, i think that the community itself is calm. i think the community itself, it is resilient and i know that my mom is actually from memphis, tennessee. it's a very prayerful community. i know they're wrapping their arms around this family. you asked a unique question, wolf. i want to chime in about all of the officers being african american, because i think that is something that many people would like to have a nuanced answer to. my response is simply this. for many of us we haven't been critical of necessarily the race of the officer, whether or not white, black, hispanic or otherwise, but it's the system. what you're seeing again and again and over and over is a system that perpetuates violence against people of color. until we do something about the system, whether or not

devante hill is the founder of one memphis — one vision. he told me about the mood in the city, a day after the footage was released. the temperature here in memphis is unequivocally peaceful. we always knew memphis has always been leading the charge for peaceful protests. i don't know if you remember in 2020 in the likeness of george floyd and ahmaud arbery and breonna taylor, the world was in flames and memphis was at peace and we truly began the systemic work of changing what policing looks like in memphis and changing the way we deal with issues like this, that we knew one day would actually happen in our city. and so right now, the tone and temperature is that of peace because we were met with justice before we were met with the video. the trauma changed and the song changed and so, our protest, the sound of it has to change as well — and it has. and earlier on in the program, i mentioned that special police unit, the scorpion, being disbanded in response to what happened to tyre nichols. do you think that goes far enough, and what f

much of it headed to memphis. ginger zee with the track here in a moment, but abc's mireya villarreal leading us off tonight, she's in dallas for us. >> reporter: tonight, cars littering icy roadways from texas to tennessee, as a deadly ice storm unfolds across the southern plains. our memphis affiliates dash cam capturing this pickup spinning out of control, slamming into another vehicle. around austin, dozens of crashes this morning, including a ten-car pileup where one person was killed. >> many roads in texas will remain very dangerous for the next 24 to 48 hours. >> reporter: this, after hundreds of crashes in the dallas/fort worth area monday. drone video from just after i-30 in arlington showing driver after driver losing control, sliding and crashing. tow truck drivers like luis can barely keep up. what's the worst you've seen over the last 24 hours? >> just trucks getting stuck on the high rise and a lot of traffic, it's really crazy out there. >> reporter: in arkansas, west of memphis, wrecks in icy cond

would that happen in a place like memphis, with this kind of unit? when the dispatcher get on and say, oh, no, don't worry. in that community, don't do that chase? i highly doubt it. because we all know -- i have three back black children that are around -- that are not that much younger then tyre nichols was. this could be any of my kids. because i know that the way they look, because they are black, two of them are black men -- that if they get pulled over and they even say, come on, y'all are doing the most, they are probably going to get beat. that if they get pulled over because there is something -- the car has a license tag that is not -- whatever. it does not matter. because we are still using police for this job. we are still using police to police certain communities, and we are using them to serve other communities. there is not probably a scorpion unit that operates in the wealthy areas of memphis. we all understand that. and the only kinds of people who are are at risk of dying or people like this poor young man, tyre nichols. >> that's

team to deal with crime in the memphis area. but later on we discoveredded that two deputies who joined this, they are with the shelby city sheriff is' office, i'm told. they have been relieved of hair duties pending an investigation into their role in all of this. so that's seven officers who were part of a pretty significant pile-on. what do you make of it? >> well, first, you know, there's nothing wrong with special units, but you have to look into how they were trained, how they're supervised. the fact that there are serve patrol officers -- seven patrol officers at a violent scene and no supervision is something that really needs to be looked into because, clearly, it was the on the radio and there were people responding. where was a sergeant? where was a lieutenant? why are they there by themselves? neil: no, all good questions. if you don't mind, howard, i'd like to move on to another video that was capturing the nation's attention when it was released early yesterday, and that is, of course, the paul pelosi break-in vide

now former memphis police officers. this videorm memphis is extremet in nature. and now cities acrosurcisties as the country,the coun they are bg for potentially a night of violence. but before we take you to the'st ground in memphis, it's important to see the body cam and cctv footage. keep in mindct, that terry nichols was pulled over for allegedly reckless drivingr for this was about eight thirty pm on saturday, january the 7th. and initially was taken down init by the police.ot he was not cuffed and got up att one point and fled during anbodc altercation. body cam footage shows a veryamf ootage showslengthy struggle wie police, with terry nichols, even after police deployed both a taser and pepper spray.. there is some question whetherthe tase the taser actually hit him. but this is a viewer warning.ut whatis a view we're about to py is extremely graphic. but take a look atlace the initialstart th incident. >> start thereere., go through n otanything. rn the all right. >> all right. all right, all right. all right. you know that. get on the ground. t all righ

yes, we initially started the march at a local park here in memphis, downtown memphis, called martye downtor park. w from there, we may or so and the protests led to the fifty five where they shut down traffic both ways. that is a bridge that connects arkansas and tennessee and the traffic was backed up for miles. >> but one thing that i have noticed that is very interesting is the police are kind of taking a hands off approach, meaning that there'swa really no police presence.ome ot >> we were talking to some ofin the truckers, some of the people stuck in traffic wer saying that they have to get rid of the protesters. but out t no law enforcement pre at all.t at >> okay, i want to play something from terry nichols mother and his stepfather, pleading for calm ahead ofhead o the release of the body cam footage. >> here's what they had to say. i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don't want us burning up our cities, tearing up not the streets, because that's not where my son stood for. we want peace. do not wa we do not want any type up war. we do not want any type o

the chief of the memphis police ordered a review of that unit. but how much of this incident can be blamed on a single unit, and how different is that unit from how police act overall. joining us now is samuelson now a, founder of the mapping police violence database and the organization police score card, and radley felkel, -- rise of the warrior cough, the militarization of the americas police force. thank you for being with us. tonight i want to start with you, when we talk about this elite unit the scorpion unit do you think in many ways, it actually having a unit like that, leads to more police violence rather than the opposite of what it's intended to do? >>, so you see this having happening in cities across the country, new york city, they had this anti gun unit, the plainclothes unit that was disbanded and reinstated on mayor adams. so, there's this unit that are concentrations of oftentimes the officers that have some of the worst records in the entire -- they use forces of hirings, more likely to make complaints. more elected have lawsu

so, we were talking about the memphis police department, and the majority of the memphis police department is black. about 58%, the chief is also black. -- who tracks police violence and police involved shootings, who started the project when he was with the washington post, he tweeted me this. he said while i get that it seems narrative leasing the thickened that the officers are black statistically, it isn't surprising and tracking police violence. we never found that race of the officer mean much different. reverend sharpton, can you just expand on the point that he's making their. does that track with your experience and all of these years doing this work? >> absolutely. i can remember cases from new york to california where black officers were involved. sean bell comes to mind in new york. the real question is, if you look at the data, and wes lowery has done a good job as he collected that, black officers and white officers shoot blacks more than they shoot whites. i would argue that i would suspect these five black officers probably would not have behaved the same way if there had b

i raise my children in memphis and graduated from memphis city school. disco then my son, daughter, sister, brother. when you have something like this, i'm not an outsider looking in, this is my communit and we are grieving right now. my words to another is just to hold onto god's hands. i pray that god will just embrace that family and give them confidence that only he ca give them because all of the words that we can say with a mother's heart is breaking like this to really see graphically what has happened to her childhood i lost a son in accident, it was nothing like this. i had a lot of pain, but to see this happening to your child it is just indescribable. if i could even just take a little bit of her pain away fro her i would because i know it i overwhelming her. the thing i see now is don't dishonor this family by having violence erupted in the city. we have a special kind of love for each other. we can talk and before you know it we know somebody that somebody else knows. we are not separated from each other. this is a time for our community . i

memphis and several other cities saw peaceful protests today. his horrific beating at the hands of five memphis police officers was captured on video and released last night. his death was a few weeks ago. we want to warn you the images you are about to see are deeply troubling. nichols led officers on a foot chase after a traffic stop. a surveillance camera captures officers striking, punching and kicking him. >> watch out. watch out. >> mom! mom! >> nichols screams for his mother, who was at home just blocks away. officers continue to hit nichols and use pepper spray. nichols eventually slumps over unconscious. but for 21 minutes, no one on the scene appears to render the aid that could have saved his life. we'll never know. those now former police officers are charged with second-degree murder. and today we learned their special scorpion unit is permanently deactivated. i asked an attorney for tyre nichols family that demanded that deactivation if they now feel like they're being heard. here's what he said. >> his parents, my co-counsel, anto

so far police here said the protests here in memphis have not turned violent. ahead of the release of the body camera footage we did hear from tyre nichols' family and said if indeed people were going to go out into the street and chant tyre's name they do it peacefully. byron. >> thanks to stephanie. tyre nichols' family reacts to release of the video. it is hard to watch and raises more questions than it answers. protests erupting around the country more than two weeks after tyre nichols died. >> tonight will be one of the toughest nights we experienced in this city. >> justice for tyre. >> the eyes of the nation on memphis, a city on edge. >> please. please. protest and protest safely. >> many in the community taking to the streets after body camera and video showing tyre nichols' encounter with memphis police was released. the 29-year-old crying out for his mother whose home was just about 100 yards away. he died three days after the beating that began as a traffic stop. a grieving family of a young man gone too soon, authorities say at the hands of police.

devante hill is founder of one memphis one vision and told me about the mood in memphis a day after the footage was released. the temperature here in memphis is unequivocally peaceful. we always knew memphis has always been leading the charge for peaceful protests. i don't know if you remember in 2020 in the likeness of george floyd and ahmaud arbery and breonna taylor, the world was in flames and memphis was at peace and we truly began the systemic work of changing what policing looks like in memphis and changing the way we deal with issues like this, that we knew one day would actually happen in our city. and so right now, the tone and temperature is that of peace because we were met with justice before we were met with the video. the trauma changed and the song changed and so, our protest, the sound of it has to change as well — and it has. and earlier on in the program, i mentioned that special police unit, the scorpion, being disbanded in response to what happened to tyre nichols. do you think that goes far enough, and what further changes do you want to see now? actually, i actu