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Charges will be brought against that officer. its unclear whether or not federal charges might be brought in this case as well like they were years ago in the baez case. the just department has opened a federal probe into the death of eric garner. if the local federal prosecutor, local u.s. attorney does decide to bring charges, its worth noting the local u.s. prosecutor here is this woman. shes named loretta lynch. and she has just been nominated by president obama to succeed eric holder as the...

Interacted with an individual named eric garner in new york city. i just got off the phone with my attorney general eric holder. he will have more specific comments about the case in new york, but i want everybody to know here as well as everybody who may be viewing my remarks here today. we are not going to let up until we see a strengthening of the trust and a strengthening of the accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement. when anybody in this country is not be...

>> we continue to monitor live shots in vantage points around new york city and other cities where there are significant sized protests tonight after a staten island grand jury announced there would be no charges brought against a new york city police officer for a death caused by choking a 43-year-old staten island man named eric garner earlier this summer. protests in new york in particular have not been particularly static. theyve been moving around the city. to varying degrees disruptive. th...

Enough to convince a grand jury that there was any need for a trial in this case. when the widow of eric garner was first told of the grand jurys decision today, the decision to not charge anyone in the death of her husband, her first words in response were, oh, my god, are you serious? she then said you can see in the video that the police officer was dead wrong. esaw garner is her name. shes eric garners widow. she told the new york daily news right after she heard of the grand jury announceme...

Christmas tree lighting was tonight, which always brings thousands of people to rockefeller center in midtown, manhattan. tonight, in addition to that regular throng of thousands of people celebrating the tree, there have also been a large number of protesters converging at the same spot. the new york city mayor bill de blasio canceled his own plan ne appearance at the tree lighting to talk to community leaders and the family members of eric garner. one thing to know about mayor de blasio -- and...

Of cases. a prosecutor depends on the local police for all of their cases, all of their evidence, which is why you need someone outside of that arrangement, outside of that politics because local prosecutors run for office, police unions are involved in either supporting or not supporting. a lot of different conflicting things that really makes people much more comfortable and the results more fair when you have outside people involved. thats why we call for federal prosecutor here as well as in...

Theres been only peaceful protest. the only reason theres national upset and concern and worry about what the response might be if a decision was made that nobody should be charged in this death, the reason in this case that theres been a cause for national concern is because of this video. its not because people have behaved badly in their anger over what happened to eric garner, its because of this video which shows what happened. which is very hard at a laymens level to square with the idea t...

The neck from behind. mr. garner stumbled. he fell to the ground. at least three other officers converged on him, held him down forcibly. and he died there on the street. this video of the incident was posted online several hours after the incident happened. posted online bic the "new york daily news." it was taken by a bistander on a sell phone and shows this very disturbing scene on the street in july. it shows the one officer grabbing him by the neck and others holding hit head down by force ...

>> "rachel maddow show" producer kate. i know well check back with you again. trymaine lee that we just spoke to, was in staten island, which is where the death of eric garner happened and where his family are from. things are quiet tonight in staten island. things are not quiet in midtown manhattan. the rockefeller center tree lighting ceremony has been under way for a couple o yef years. there were people other people tonight coming here specifically to that event because it was such a locus o...

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