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>> reporter: the arrest of six baltimore police officers in freddie grays death has renewed calls for justice for eric garner the 43-year-old father who died after being placed in an apparent choke hold by an nypd officer last year. >> i cant breathe. >> reporter: garner repeated the phrase 11 times during his arrest. we learned the 25-year-old gray indicated to police officers that he too, could not breathe. garners wife spoke about the similarities. >> the same way the man was screaming for me...

A nosedive says one passenger. >> engines full throttle, the air frame shaking. and we descended really quickly. >> reporter: dropping 27,000 feet in less than eight minutes. >> down to 4,000 skywest 305 tango. >> reporter: but it wasnt just one passenger as the airline first said. >> i asked for some oxygen for her. we got her on oxygen. soon as she got on the oxygen she was alert. >> reporter: passenger and nurse mary cunningham helps a fellow passenger. then -- >> they called me right back be...

Panta layio, all other officers, ems workers, they failed me. when i see them, i have asthma, and im scared. im scared that one day i will say, i cant breathe, and nobody wont help me. >> earlier in the day, we saw another dramatic display in washington. dozens of black congressional staff members staged a walk-out on the steps of the capitol, and put their hands up to protest police killings in america. this issue isnt going away. in fact, the calls for justice are getting louder. thats why my ...

And benjamin lawton, eric garners cousin. i want to talk about that video you were referring to, erica, the second video that shows the ems workers not really doing much of anything while your father lay on the ground. we called to find out what happened to those emts. we were told all of them have returned to work, two are -- >> huh? are you kidding me? >> i knew that. ive been following the blogs and looking online. and, yes, i knew they went back -- thats why i was asking, what happened to th...

Of our ems workers, who basically do have the lives of individuals in their hands. and what is the training that is happening here? the fact that absolutely nothing was being done for eric garner as you see in that image, all the time that is before us is disturbing. they are supposed to be administering some level of care. even unions that represent the ems workers were saying the same thing, there should have been some level of service being administered to him at that time. so this is disturb...

>> we need help, all right. were getting the stretcher. >> those four ems workers were initially suspended without pay. weve learned they are all back on the job, two of them restricted to quote, nondirect patient care within the hospital. the speaker of the new york city council joins me live. madam speaker, thank you for joining me. i want to talk about police in a second. but when you look at the second tape and the actions or inactions of the emergency medical workers, what are your thoughts...

Worse. so come on -- >> i want to get to the ems workers in a second. but just to make sure i understand, you want those officers and ems workers to lose their jobs and go to jail, all of them? >> you just said that -- >> im just -- >> i didnt hear you. >> im just trying to clarify. you think that the officers involved should all lose their jobs and all go to jail and -- is that right? is that what youre saying? >> i didnt say all of them. but most of them -- like the ones that contributed to hi...

>> reporter: in buffalo, this ambulance transporting a woman in labor was stuck in the snow. ems workers had to carry her six blocks to the hospital just in time for her to give birth. the brutal storm leaving others stranded on streets and highways through the night. these guys in oregon were trapped in their suv when their gps got them lost in the storm. >> we basically hunkered down and went to sleep because we figured sleep would be the best thing for us instead of being panicky. >> reporter...

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Another 30 seconds go by. now seven officers surround him. hes not armed. hes down. soon after garners motionless body lay on the sidewalk, hands cuffed behind his back. from the moment this video started we know it takes ems at least four minutes until they show up and the lack of urgency is stunning. >> sir, is everything all right with you now? ems. >> sir, ems is here. answer their questions, okay? >> he cant breathe. >> no cpr. no sense of urgency. no trying to revive him. how do we explain...