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Recommend for the commissioner what to do. >> he could have ignored and gone in a different direction. he decided to go with the recent opinion of this judges recommendation. lets go to ron allen. we were just talking about the pba patrick lynch and his scaiving release criticizing commissioner oneill. give me a sense of how this is likely to play out both within the police community and the community of people who feel that eric garner was wrongfully killed. >> well, the police community, the c...

Time in the area of staten island, there was a complaint about repeatedly and the police were attempting to do something about it. in terms of the circumstances that ended with great tragedy not only for this mr. garner, his family, the city of new york, new york city police department, but certainly officer pantaleo. >> cornell, do you want to weigh in? >> listen, i respect the work that the police officers do. but this is what we have to stop doing. we have to stop saying, you know, for police...

Be ranked and filed police officers who would not agree. that was the right outcome. the conversations, some of the earlier coverage that we heard about how eric garners death brought up an important conversation and it is important to have a conversation frankly black communities and latino communities have been having this conversation for decades. it did not start with eric garner. why were they arresting eric garner in the first place? one of the advances police department have made and than...

Cevallos is with us and our cornell belcher are all with us. welcome to all of you. >> al sharpton keeps on saying, we have been subject to allegations of things that eric garner may or may not have done or have improved. the we have been subject to the idea that pantaleo is a terrific officer and now the minimum has been done. what do you take on whats done? >> this is five years of pain, five years of zwrus mattjustice. five years of seeing your father and son over and over for the entire worl...

This was the case along with michael brown of the summer of 2014 that indicted so much pressure around the country and intense discussion how police especially in the community of color. thats the legacy of this case and so many others but it really, really took hold here in new york and ferguson, missouri, that summer and got us to this point now of five years later that somebody is responsible for eric garners death other than himself. the family will take some comfort in that. it is not what ...

I heard the commissioner saying they were asked to step aside. there ought to be a time limit on that. the presumption is whomever they are deferring to that the family tries to show respect for, the p presumption and the conclusion would be they would proceed in a just matter. that did not happen with the grand jury and it did not happen with the federal prosecutors and it never got to a federal grand jury. so though pantaleo is no longer on the force, thats good for the citizens of the city th...

Mary that in the process let us not convict eric garner of thing that is did not end up proven in any court of law to say that eric garner was do i think thing that is has not been established is to desecrate a memory of a man who was the victim here. lets also remember there were other officers involved and also to be dealt with. there was the arrest of report saying he had 10,000 cigarettes, when he did not. whats going to happen to that officer? there were eye witnesses that said he was break...

People are angry about what happened to eric garner that was not a chase of a violent criminal shooting. this was a guy selling cigarettes. >> one question he was a guy selling cigarettes and police knew it. >> they know eric garner. >> maya? >> i want to underscore the point that the new york police department was familiar with eric garner and he had a history of selling cigarettes so they actually knew who they were dealing with. they knew they were not dealing with drug dealers. >> thank you ...

Garner case which was the case that started a new energy around our fighting for black lives matter. but, as we deal with this, let us be clear that we are relieved but we are not celebatory. there is nothing to celebrate. pantaleo will go home as an unemployed man but this family goes home to eric being gone. while we hear the record of service of pantaleo. there was no jury acourt that ruled that eric garner was doing of any that was alleged. there was a testimony but never

Police gaining up on people. right here. >> backup and get on the side. >> new york city, james oneill spoke about his decision to fire pantaleo moments ago. >> in this case, mr. garners death must have a consequence of its own. i agree with findings and recommendations. it is clear that daniel pantaleo can no longer serve as new york citys police officer. certainly not the courageous men and women of the police department who put their own lives on the line every single day and service to the p...