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Here. in an incident from february 2012, he was accused of making a false arrest and incarceration. the case remains open. in march gent 2012, he was accuf an illegal strip search. the nypd settled the suit for $30,000. youre an officer and have been on the streets. this guy has had some accusations before. now he comes, despite the medical examiner and says it wasnt a chokehold. hes allowed to go in the grand jury. no adversarial opposition there. how are you as one who has been on the streets ...

Officer in the tamir rice case. a six-year veteran who was driving the police car. so are there serious questions about both officers involved in this case? >> i dont think its just these two officers. i think what the federal government said in their report, and as a matter of fact, i just left the u.s. attorneys office here in northern ohio to come on to your show. and they talked about the word pattern. its not just these two officers. its a pattern of officers over the years of using excessi...

Now, in the eric garner case nobody knows if federal charges will ultimately be brought against the officer in the eric garner case, but the federal prosecutor with jurisdiction for where this happened, remarkably, is this prosecutor. its loretta lynch, who has just been nominated by president obama to become the next attorney general of the united states. how does that factor into this decision? joining us is paul butler, professor at georgetown law. thank you very much for being with us. >> it...

Of investigation have been monitoring the local case closely while allowing the local investigation led by the district attorneys office in staten island to proceed first. earlier today the grand jury declined to return an indictment in this case. now that the local investigation has concluded, im here to announce that the just department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation into mr. garners death. >> attorney general eric holder speaking earlier this morning. the last time the...

Into national coverage. [ speaking foreign language ] >> latin america, europe and asia all covering the new york protests and the case. juanita wrote to us saying, im so proud of the people in new york standing together, black and white. i am, too. coming up, well discuss whats next in the federal investigation of the garner case. but keep the conversation going on our facebook or tweet us at politicsnation. right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a bre...

Police officers across the country to be required to wear body cameras. there was no video evidence of what happened in the shooting of michael brown in part because ferguson police did not regularly use cameras. well, on monday of this week, president obama announced he would ask congress for $263 million to cover the cost of 50,000 new body cameras plus training on the use of those cameras for police officers across the country. in the eric garner case, though, the staten island case, there wa...

His widow watching president obama make those remarks today. as theyre watching, you see who is there with them. hes standing alongside reverend al sharpton. reverend al has been at the center of this case in response to it for months ever since eric garners death in july, hes held rallies with the garner family here in new york city as the legal process has been unfolding. earlier this month he also spoke at eric garners funeral. >> when you can, in broad daylight, choke one of gods children, g...

Hold is illegal in new york, a man saying 11 times on the video once hes down and helpless being held down by other police saying i cant breathe and the policeman continues to choke him and thats not probable cause to go to trial, then we know that the system is broken. and all were saying is follow the law. the grand jury is not there to set up whether or not one is innocent or guilty but whether theres probable cause to proceed. and i think its important to say this, rachel, in other areas whe...

From seeing the video, just from seeing the video, how would you prosecute this case? >> look, i have real concerns. and one of the things we havent really been discussing is that ohio is an open carry state. and so that means that you are allowed, if you have a permit, to have a gun in the public. the fact that the decision was made so quickly without an assessment as to whether this individual was over the age of 18, whether or not he may have had a permit, without an assessment of whether he ...

De blasio. thank you for being here. joining us tonight from the streets of staten island, from the site very near where eric garner was killed in july of this year. the protests youre seeing in the streets of new york. these protests are in response to the grand jury decision that there would be no charges brought against the new york city police officer who effectively killed mr. garner by putting him what appeared to be a choke hold on the video thats been distributed so widely since that day...