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murdaugh. good morning, ever. it is saturday, january 28th. i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara. i'm boris sanchez coming to you live from memphis, tennessee, where this morning the city is still reeling from the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of five, now former memphis police officers. the full video of that beating was released to the public last night and it is extremely difficult to watch. >> absolutely. and as you would imagine, that video, the series of videos bringing out strong emotions for so many people last night and into this morning. it is difficult to watch.
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it shows the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police. the images and the four video clips are graphic. they are disturbing, as we said, and they are critical, though, to understanding the reality and gravity of what happened. now, nichols was pulled over january 7th allegedly for reckless driving, but the police chief said the department has been unable to find anything that substantiates probable cause or claims of reckless driving. >> yeah, and that is especially notable given what you just saw there. they immediately approached his vehicle and seemingly ripped him out. nichols managed to run away but was soon surrounded and then we saw this. the police surveillance video showing nichols being struck, punched, bludgeoned, kicked at least nine times in less than four minutes when he is apparently not a threat to these officers in any way.
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>> watch out, watch out! >> this is happening on the ground as recorded by another police body cam. officers continue to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground, telling him to give them his hands as nichols cries out for his mother. in all, the video covers about 38 minutes from the moment that officers yank the 29-year-old over, out of his vehicle, when they pull him over to the arrival of an ambulance on the scene, for 21 minutes it shows police officers, sheriffs deputies and emts talking and walking around him but no run renders aid as he is slumped over on a vehicle. >> that's another difficult portion of the video to watch. five of the officers at the scene are now facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping and this morning two sheriffs deputies who are present are now on leave
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pending an investigation. and what many feared would be a night of violence was largely peaceful with protests across the country in new york. three people were arrested, one for breaking the windshield of a patrol car. but, overall, what we saw were calm and peaceful protests. >> amara, which want to bring in sara sidner to this conversation. sara, you spent the night with protesters. you visited the scene where we watched that horrible video where that unfolded. when you were with the protesters they got on the interstate. what were they sharing with you? what were they calling for? >> they wanted people to see them and see what had happened here and make sure that the community not just here, but around the country understood that there is a problem with policing. they want to see changes. they talked about whether or not they were satisfied, i guess, if you will, with the charges,
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satisfied with the response from the police department, first the fireings of the officers, which came very swiftly, and then charges, which included second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault. when they saw the video, they just felt there is so much more that has happened before this that could have stopped this. so they are unsatisfied with what has happened here. i know everyone has been praising the police chief and praising the d.a. for going forward with charges so quickly, because that is unusual and many cases it's taken up to a year for anything to happen, and sometimes nothing at all. had they saw the video and knowing what happened to some of them in the past with their interactions with police, they were unsatisfied. they said this never should have happened. because things weren't done before this happened to some of these units like the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit, we have the situation where a 29-year-old who was a free spirit ends up losing his life. so there was anger.
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there was frustration. there was a lot of pain. but there was no disruption. there was no valence. they disrupted traffic. they moved on after an hour or so and that was the end of it. it has been a peaceful, mostly prayerful time in memphis. but they want to see major reforms and they want to see it now. . >> yeah. and the families' attorney, benjamin crump, pointed out that only a few days before the incident with tyre another person complained about that s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit saying that they had used excessive force on him. what is the sense you are getting from the community and leaders in the community about how likely change is to come? >> well wor getting a clue when it comes to the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit. the police chief has basically put that unit on hold. the unit was put in place for crime suppression. the family and their turns say it turned into oppression of citizens. they were just sort of after people in their minds, looking for people as suspects instead
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of looking at people as citizens. and so right now that has been put on hold. what the family is asking for, and their attorneys, is that they disbanded this group all together. >> whether or not that will happen, we don't know. there is an investigation they have put on hold underway. and you may see more people, either lose their jobs or be put on administrative leave, besides those two sheriffs deputies, because we counted nine people out there at the time. there is also the question that s sticks in everyone's mind. the members of the fire department who were there, they are there not as law enforcement. they are there to save lives and help. and if that's not what they did and just stood around, then that is why they have been, you know, sort of -- they haven't been fired yet because they have to go through a process. but there is a lot of questions, sort of the duty to intervene and do their work to try to save
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one. there are a lot of questions here. kmaj imagine you are going through this and the people sent there to rescue do nothing. that hurt a lot of people as well. >> one of the most painful parts of watching that footage that as they are holding on to him and beating him, when he presents no threat to the officers around him, nobody intervenes and then he is slumped over and it appears negligent, they are not tending to him as they are talking about what happened. i am curious to get your perspective on this. as we noted before and we were talking to defense attorney shan wu earlier this morning, he makes the case that there was nothing in the footage that shows a provocation or a threat that tyre posed. if this was a traffic stop, why are they pulling him out of the car to begin with, right? have you gotten any indication from perhaps law enforcement or from defense attorneys that there might be some explanation
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for how aggravated the officers were as they approached the scene. >> the simple answer is no. from the d.a., no. from the police chief, they have not found evidence leading up to this to -- in any way, shape or form that there was, a, reckless driving, and, b, any reason for this to get so hot, so fast, and be so aggressive. what you do hear on the tape is officers sound very angry when they pepper spray, because the pepper spray blows in their face and they blame it on tyre nichols. not on themselves, the ones that sprayed the pepper spray so close up. they blame it both two officers, you hear them blaming tyre nichols for this. so you could hear the sort of swell, the heightened emotions. and one person described this as, in their minds, they looked like a pack of wolves. the group mentality happened. there was a gang mentality that happened and they, all of them in a fury, went after him.
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and you can hear him saying, you are doing too much. what are you doing? what did i do? when he is screaming for his mother, and this will sit with me for the rest of his life, screaming for his mom over and over again, she is 80 yards away, she said, and she believes he actually was hoping she could hear him and she couldn't be there for her son in his last months. that will never leave her mind. she says i don't know how to process that. >> and who would, right? before we with go, sara, i want to make sure for viewers who watched that footage, it's agonizing. we do want to share who tyre nichols was and paint him in a different light than just the person, the victim that you see in the footage. you mentioned that he was a free spirit. his mom talks about him being a photographer who liked to photograph sunsets. he was a skater. what else stands out to you when you hear those details from his family. >> we went and looked. he has a photography site where he would regularly go out and
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take beautiful pictures of memphis. but when the sun is setting. and they are beautiful pictures. that was his passion. he was working at fedex. he was working with his father. they both worked at fedex. the thing that stuck with me, he would come home almost every night for dinner with his family. he'd walk in and say, hi, family, and she says, i'll never hear that again and i don't know how to live with that. >> that is such a painful note. sara, thank you so much. we know there might be demonstrations later. look forward to your reporting on that. >> thank you, boris. >> of course. amara, as you could imagine, the reverberations from what we witnessed near memphis are being felt across the country and not just in the street. local and federal officials are also responding to what we witnessed. >> and what sara says i think really strikes a chord with so many of us. when you hear that he was
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calling out for his mom, and i remember hearing tyre nichols' mother saying an interview with don lemon she loved her son to death, he was a mama's boy and he had her name tattooed on him. and, you know, of course in his last moments you hear him calling out for his mom. just incredibly tragic. thank you so much, boris, for being there on the ground. thanks to sara sidner as well. as you know, president biden was also very moved and upset by what happened. he says that he was outraged after watching the police video of that fatal beating of tyre nichols and following the release of that video president biden spoke with nichols' family to offer sympathy and condolences. let's go now to cnn white house reporter jasmine wright for more on that. this is his wheelhouse. president biden really knows how to empathize with people and he did that in this call.
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>> reporter: yeah, president biden acted really emotionally because of the things that we just heard boirs and sara really describe, all of that heartbreak. a lengthy statement 30 minutes after the video went live, i want to read a part because he wordrd this so strongly. he expressed outrage, painful he said it is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain and the exhaustion that black and brown americans experience every single day, really trying to call back to what sara said, a lot of folks in that community feel that excessive policing, over-policing, president biden tried to bring that upfront there. white house officials over the day told us that president biden hadn't seen the video in advance, but he was really staying with this topic at the top of his mind as he called the nichols family. a "washington post" reporter was in the room when the family got
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that call. we were able to see really a rare view into it because something that folks who are consoled by the president because of this type of thing in his wheelhouse, they say that he links his own trauma, the fact that he has lost family members over the course of years to their -- they are trying to connect with him. take a listen to this video. >> your comment today, i don't know how you did it, i know tyre's dad, devastating. >> yes, sir. >> i know people say that to you. but i do know, i lost my son in a war, the war in iraq. i lost my daughter, a tragic accident, accident killed my wife and daughter. i don't know how -- i didn't have the courage to do what you did. >> reporter: we heard from the president what the white house leader called a deeply personal phone calm. now, later talking to reporters, president biden said that in this moment he believed that the image of a miracle was at stake
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and whether we really uphold law and order. now, he also called for peaceful protests joining the nichols family. i think that's something we largely saw on the ground last night. amara. >> exactly what we saw. you are right, jasmine wright. thank you very much. >> the brutal and savage beating of tyre nichols has intensified calls for police reform. and a memphis city councilwoman says officials need to get it right so it doesn't happen again. she is joining us this morning. councilwoman, we are grateful to have you this morning. when i arrived last night there was a palpable sense of fear. businesses closed early. the hotel we are staying at shut its doors as the sun was going down. there was a fear that protests might turn violent. that didn't happen. do you get the sense that's because there is trust in the community that the system is going to work to bring justice to tyre nichols' family?
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>> i think that the fear came early and because the media putting it out and other individuals putting that out, because usually we don't see the system responds as it needs to. and i think last night we saw a very peaceful and direct sense of protests in the city of memphis and i think maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i know the colleagues of mine and others that are in the county and on the state level are going to make sure we do all within our power to make sure this is prevented, that the culture is diminished and we don't see an incident like this again in memphis and, hopefully, not elsewhere either. >> walk us through those steps. what do you think needs to change at the local level? what kind of reforms loowould y like to see? >> i commend our police chief for pausing the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit.
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staff is drafting legislation to disband all together and pushing forth the data transparency ordinance as well. we had a group come a few months ago and talk to us about the fears and issues of when stops like these happen. we didn't know it would tleed this unfortunate killing and murder of mr. tyre nichols to give us that tangible view of what we should have done a few months ago what that community group asked us to do. i think the legislation is crafted. we need to push it. we as a council meet in one week and i know there will be a robust meeting as we need make sure we review these policies to ensure that the police department knows that we support them, but also want to make sure that they are doing their job with the utmost fidelity. >> it's a delicate balance, right? part of the reason that this s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit exists is because there has been violent crime here in memphis i was reading fbi statistics and i think there is something like
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650 murders that have taken place in the last two years. so crime is a concern. but at the same time, when you have these sorts of specialized units, it appears that the intent can be corrupted. how do you balance fighting crime with making sure that police are not abusing citizens? >> yeah. and that's a very integral point. i think that units like the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit is a verien intensified and directly focused area. we want to add community units as well. we don't have those anymore, those units that allow police to involve and engage directly with citizens in neighborhoods and make relationships. and so it seems we have traded that out for more direct and forceful and violent units. maybe that led to the increase in murders. i am not shoofrmt i would like to see the return of that instead of the support of units such as the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit.
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>> councilwoman, i have talked to so many activists who want police reform and one of the main things that comes up over and over again is that the police force should look like the community that it's policing. they believe makes it easier to engage with the community when there is a shared cultural experience. in this case, the people behind the badge were also african american. the same as the victim in this case, tyre nichols. what do you make of that? >> truthfully, it hurts to see that. it really did. we have pushed for police residency requirements in the city of memphis, community policing and then to see those images revealed is -- that look like us here in the city, it hurt. but it also gave us just more focus to really look at how are we supporting and training the officers that we have and to really dig deeper and see that it's deeper than appearance, it's deeper than race and relation and how you can connect
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with someone based on how they look, but really what is your intention for being a police officer. how do you see service? how do you evolve yourself with the community and on a broader level? and just to reiterate, it hurt but allowed us to look deeper into what we can really do to change the course of how we are developing and progressing our police department for the entire city of memphis. >> councilwoman easter-thomas, thank you so much. keep us posted on these reform efforts. obviously, they will be central to ensuring tyre nichols' legacy. >> absolutely. >> amara, as we send it back to you, i think that remains the open question. what is policing in the city going to look like and how do folks here ensure that what happened to tyre never happens again. >> yeah, yeah. a big question about police and culture. so, look, as you know, the video is out. arrests have been made.
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police video showing the arrest and fatal beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols, memphis district attorney stephen mulroy has issued a statement promising his office will do everything it can to get justice for tyre and his family. >> let's talk about what that looks like. with us is former u.s. attorney michel moore. and former los angeles police sergeant sheryl doorsey. michael, first, i want to start with you. there are a lot of questions about what prompted the reaction that we saw from the officers in the video. it doesn't appear that they had cause to attack him the way they
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did after the stop. what did you think? >> well, i'm glad to be with all of you. i am sorry it's on a day like this. let me say i think that we could talk about training and that type of thing. that has nothing to do with what i saw on the tape. that was sort of not a lack of training, but a lack of conscience on these officers. i want to separate that out a little bit. you know, i do think that we have a situation where we have a lot of good people in law enforcement and we have some folks who are not good. and we saw that on the tape. one thing that i may want to consider and i would urge people to think about is the use of these task forces and how they monitor and supervise. are people in them too long, so they start to lose their sense of community policing and of the job that they were hired to do. that is to protect and to serve a particular community, not to act like an elite military team in the area.
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that is one place we can start. i hope we will have discussions going forward about outrage. you know, from community leaders, not just when we see an excessive use of force, but when we see a spike in crime i want to see the people who are concerned about a spike in crime and those discussions need to happen. i think that's how we have real discussions about progress. i don't think we can equate those the brutality on that tape with all police departments. that's something that those officers you know, let the criminal system take its course in that case. >> there have been calls for the police union, the memphis police association, to take a stronger stand to issue a statement regarding these indictments and, of course, the firings of these officers. sheryl, we got a statement from the memphis police association. i do want to read it in full
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before get your response. it says the memphis police association would again like to extend condolences to the family of mr. tyre nichols, the memphis police association is committed to the administration of justice and never condones the mistreatment of any citizen nor any abuse of power. that faith is what we will lean on in the coming days, weeks and months to ensure the totality of circumstances is revealed. mr. nichols' family, the city of memphis and the country deserve nothing less. we pray for justice, healing and eventual closure for all involved. no singling out of the officers. no mention of them, the indictments, the firings. is this a strong enough statement? sheryl? >> understand that these unions are there to protect the officers. so they are in some instances the lobbying arm of police departments in terms of rights
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of officers. they gave a politically correct and wanting to seem sensitive statement. but understand this. that police department and that city has a real problem. now that we have had over 24 hours almost coming up on 24 hours since that video has been released, i have so many questions about what that department did really to prevent this, all of this was preventible. you have officers young on the job, unsupervised out there doing what they do on a regular basis. this was not anything that they aren't accustomed to doing. they were sophisticated and savvy. they created an audio record to manufacture probable cause for the initial stop and everything that happened after. >> i want to stay with you because i find the dynamic, especially as you noted when they are discussing the incident after it happened, i find that very interesting. notably, the police thchief in memphis said race is less of an
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incident than bias is. another factor might be group think. in your experience working in police departments, is group think a marriage issue within the force when someone witnesses someone else escalating and then they escalate? do you get the sense that that contributed to what we saw? >> it's absolutely a contributing factor. i don't take race out of the issue, by the way. i refer to it as a wolfpack mentality. we see this at the end of a foot pursuit. officers are putting in work, that's what they do, they punish you when they catch you at the end of a foot pursuit. officers coming on the scene after the fact and they want to get in, get in a punch, get in a kick, somebodies comes up late and pulls out and starts beating mr. nichols. it's absolutely group think, not unique by the s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. unit. bothered by the name, s.c.o.r.p.i.a.n. not unique to the unit. that's police culture. that's what they do.
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it's important, particularly in a small unit like that where camaraderie is a big thing and officers want to know, can i trust you? are you going to back me? and so these officers have demonstrated time and time again and on that incident that you could trust me. i'm going to fwbuy into and r corroborate the lie we are going to tell about what happened tonight. >> michael, to you, i'm curious to know your thoughts on the charges that the officers are facing, particularly the second-degree murder charge. is it aggressive? and from the legal standpoint, the aggressive question, because i'm wondering from a legal standpoint, how that could play out in terms of getting a conviction. >> well, i think the charges were right and they came at the right time. it didn't take much review of the tape to see what happened and i appreciate it very much,
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my colleagues' comments about how they manufactured a story on video camera. i mean, a first-year prosecutor could see that, can hear it. so i don't think it's going to be difficult to get a conviction in the case. it's not a premeditated case, but clearly they knew that the conduct that they were imposing and the violence they were imposing on mr. nichols would and could cause death and then they left him unattended slumped on the ground after they set him up against the police car. without any aid. and so i just think it's a matter of time before these officers see themselves -- former officers see themselves sitting in a penitentiary for a lengthy sentence. it's almost the place where we can't speak about it because it's so disgusting to watch it, and uncalled for and unnecessary. it also cast a terrible shadow over the good police officers out there who are trying to do their job. and so i think that the conduct
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not only had the awful consequences against mr. nichols and mhis family, but terrible repercussions that i'm sure will rain throughout police departments across the country. we used to have under the department of justice, we were active about going and having consent decrease and monitoring police departments when these issues come up. you have to remember, plans and memorandums, it's not a one and done thing. there has to be ongoing efforts to make sure that officers are trained, we recruit the best people, we support the people in the field, that we monitor them psychologically, that we do things to make sure that they know how to combat these stressful times, and also know how to push back and control these outbursts of anger. and i do think that it was a hyped up situation. i also think it's a lack of conscience in treating somebody
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less than human. that speaks probably to a bigger problem. something that a piece of paper doesn't fix, a meeting doesn't fix. it's going to take the entire community, community leaders who tyke to speak about the tragedy and the problems with the police department and the need for more policing because of spikes in crime and cities like memphis where they have this an exorbitant number of murder over the last couple of years. we have got to address all that have in a way that is actually meaningful as opposed to just giving lip service about it when they with circumstances like this come up. >> michael, quickly, i wanted your perspective on one statement that we got from former memphis police officer desmond mills jr. attorney who said his clients did not cross the lines that others crossed during their confrontation with nichols. what do you make of that defense? >> if he was one of the five and he didn't pull the guys off while they were beating the man,
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he crossed the line. i mean, he may not have had the baton in his hand. if he didn't push his fellow officer out of the way, grab him and subdue him, try to break up the victimization of mr. nichols, he crossed the line. they take an oath to protect and serve. they didn't protect him. and there is nothing that i have seen and nothing -- no reporting that has been public, and it's been a fairly transparent case, that indicates that there was anything that mr. nichols did that might have resulted in even an aggressive traffic stop or aggressive arrest. and so, you know, i don't know which officer he was in the video. i will say that. if he is one of the five and he didn't stop the attack, then he is just as much a part of it. >> makes sense. sheryl, before we go, where do we go from here? i know president biden has been pushing to renew efforts for the
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george floyd policing act to be renewed in congress, banning chokeholds, carotid holds and more funding for police training. where do we even start? >> i don't say no to anything. that sounds sexy, but that's not going to do anything on the local level. we need to start with this department, taking a look at this special unit that they have. and these 18,000 police departments across the u.s. need to do something similar because this is not unique to memphis where you have hot dogs, elephant hunters, i like to call on these specialized units out there creating havoc. when you have an officer with a demonstrated ill temperament, inability to do the police work, unable to relate to the community they search, get them off the department and/or tie them to the desk if you can't fire them because that's the lie police chiefs want us to believe. >> michael, sheryl, really appreciate this conversation. thank you very much.
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>> pleasure. >> thank you. all right. just ahead, a new study looking at the patterns of people who commit mass violence. what do most of the attackers have in common? we'll tell you ahead. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the rereal honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin. the only brand with real honeyand elderberry.y. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatolologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of deep wrinkles in 4. fine lines in 1-week, so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! nerogena®
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of murder in shootings in northern california this week has reportedly admitted to the attacks. nbc bay area news reports chunli zhao says he regrets the attacks. he was arrested monday and after allegedly killing seven former colleagues and wounding one at two farms in half moon bay. cnn has not been able to independently confirm what zhao said in the interview and reached out to his attorney for comment. a new study completed before
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the series of mass shootings in california looks at the backgrounds of suspects and circumstances surrounding those incidents. mass attacks in public spaces from 2016 to 2020, the headline of the report, looks at factors leading up to shootings with the intention of helping communities prevent such attacks. the five-year study analyzes 173 attacks that happened in public or semi public locations during which three or more individuals were injured or killed. experts looked at each other's -- each attacker's background, motivation and behavior before the attack. the study was done by the secret service national threat assessment center. joining me now to discuss this is the center's director. really appreciate you joining us. >> this is a very important topic. the suspect in the half moon bay shootings said he was bullied and gone to his employer with concerns about his work conditions, his long hours, and
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the attack in monterey bay the shooter was not happy the way he was treated by the people at the ballroom that he shot up. what do you make of the grievances from these suspects? >> good morning, thank you for having me. i really have to start off by saying on behalf of the secret service my condolences to the communities this week that have been impacted by these tragedies. we have been doing this research for over 20 years. . studying targeted attacks. as you said in this most recent report, we looked at a five-year analysis. what i can tell you, consistently across the five years that we studied, grievances were by far the most common motive for these attackers, and they could have been related to interpersonal conflicts, workplace grievances as well as other issues, and also in terms of the behavior
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they elicited that they engaged in, they elicited concern in those around them for a -- prior to their attacks, i guess, in theory, it's easier to address the grievances, talk to the people causing these grievances. how do you get to the point of preventing these attacks when you know someone who is very happy unhappy, let's say, at work? >> what the secret service recommends, in fact, is what we use as an agency, is a behavioral threat assessment approach. and what that means, it depends on the context. so, for example, you set about the workplace. in a workplace, many businesses are now enacting behavioral threat assessment programs. what those programs do is identify individuals who might be exhibiting those types of concerning behaviors or maybe in distress or experiencing a crisis, gathering information from multiple sources to assess, does this person pose a risk of violence?
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if they do, what are the intervention strategies? so schools are doing that as well to identify students, workplaces are doing it, and so are others in the community level. so we really encourage communities to develop these programs so that bystanders come forward with information and that's acted on. >> i thought i saw statistics that the mass shooters were getting younger. in these two cases in california, you have senior citizens of asian descent carrying out these attacks. how do we reconcile those differences and what have you seen in terms of the backgrounds and the similarities and differences among these shooting suspects? >> sure. so there is no one profile of the type of individual that will carry out this type of attack. the youngest in our study was 14. the oldest was 87. in fact, i think there were two that were over the age of 70. however, the average age is usually around mid-30s.
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they do go younger over five years. because it's a low base rate of attacks, we shouldn't be profiling. we should be focusing, as you said, on these behaviors that they are engaging in and grievances they are having. >> from a community level, what can be done? >> what can be done is that communities need to be trained on recognizing the warning signs. this is why the secret service puts out this research. this is why we put out this guidance. thank you so much for covering the report because the information needs to get out there. people recognize the warning signs. they just don't know whether whether they should act at times. it's not just a law enforcement issue or mental health professional issue. everyone sees this. we saw in the report the majority of the attackers elicited concern in those around them and were around them, co-workers, classmates, family members, neighbors, even members of the general public that may
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have observed this behavior online or in person. we need to educate -- >> right, but i think that's the difficult part for people, right. if you know, you know, people exhibiting erratic behavior, something is a little off, that's a thresh mold we don't know when we are supposed to report them and to whom. >> absolutely. and i think that's the biggest challenge. what we see in the programs, if you have multidisciplinary threat assessment programs, the context of what is happening with the individual you are concerned about dictates who you call. for example, in our report, if they are making threats and they are bringing weapons and they are showing an intense fixation with violent extremism, miss og any, then if there is an interest of imminent risk, we must be contacting local law enforcement. however, maybe they need counseling. maybe they need a mental health professional. it really depends on the unique
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situation of that individual. >> of course. early intervention is so key. thanks so much. >> thank you so much. all right. police in israel are calling it one of the worst terror attacks in years. at least seven killed after a gunman opened fire near a synagogue. a live report from jerusalem next. ank of america. see cousin jimmy o over there? his girlfriend just cauaught the bouquet so... he might need a little more help saving. for that engagagement ring... the groom's parents. you think they're looking at photos of their hahandsome boy? they're not! she just saw how much they spent on ballroom dance classes... won't be needing those anymore. digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop banking. works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪ ♪ let's be more than our allergies! ize the day. with zyrtec. when it comes to reding sugar in your family's diet,
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jerusalem remains on high alert this morning after a gunman opened fire near a synagogue friday killing at least seven people and injuring three others. we want to warn you. some of this footage may be disturbing. i the attack follows days of deadly valentine's between palestinians and israelis on the west bank. israeli officials call it quote one of the worst terror attacks in the last few years. let's go to cnn's hadas gold. i know police say the suspect was killed after a chase. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: this took place in a neighborhood in northeast jerusalem as you noted outside
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of a synagogue. it was friday night. there would have been a lot of worshippers there. the gunman shooting and killing seven people, injuring another three, including a 15-year-old boy who remains in hospital. he got into his car, started driving down the road and minutes later he was encountered by police after a brief firefight he was then shot and killed. he has been identified as a 2 #-year-old palestinian resident of east jerusalem. police belief he was actsing alone. police are calling it one of the forest terror attacks in israel in recent memory. and then actually this morning there was another shooting attack, amara, in jerusalem about 15 hours after that synagogue attack just outside the old city walls on the eastern side of the old city. a 13-year-old boy actually shot and injured two men as they were walking. he, himself, was then, the 13-year-old, was shot and injured but he was not killed. so three injuries out of that. and as you noted, this comes
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during what's been really three days of bloodshed here because thursday was the deadliest day for palestinians in the west bank in over a year. that's after an israeli military raid in jenin and rockets were fired from gaza to israel and israel struck back with airstrikes. it's a tense period right now. i should note that secretary of state antony blinken is expected in the region in the coming days. this was a preplanned trip. obviously, there will be a lot on his plate as he arrives. >> absolutely. a lot to talk about. thank you very much. all right. up next, we will take you back to memphis on what is a very difficult morning for the community and really people across the nation. "cnn newsroom" continues in a moment. brimming with confidence. and meatballs. it had a lot of attitude- for a rookie. and d a lot of pepperoni. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time. dry skin is sensitive skin,, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture.
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much grief and anger over the tapes, the video showing the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. boris sanchez has been on the ground. 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.
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