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Collection on cigarettes. this is just absurd. you know, people talk about the left, they want a big state, they want a powerful state. well, here it is. youve got to take all of it. if you want a powerful state, theres your police force acting on demands of authorities to go out and make sure every dime of taxes collected, particularly from tobacco. look how we stigmatize tobacco. to the point its so despised and reviled that a guy loses his life from selling single cigarettes in new york city....

The federal government is acting without warrant to intrude into a state business doesnt understand that the 14th amendment and laws passed pursuant to that, to protect emancipated african-americans from arbitrary state power and the reconstruction of the south. gives this the color of law. and the federal government is doing what the law -- the amendment and the laws are supposed to do, which is to, in this case, examine not whether racial discrimination was involved but whether, perhaps, for e...

With law. they have to do with anybodys, white, black, civil rights. have you to demonstrate willfulness that the officer intended to deny, to violate, in this case mr. garners civil rights. >> well, it has to be intentional in the federal case, is what youre saying. >> yes. >> and in the federal case, again, coming back to what george will just explained to you, was clear deputy ra vags of your constitutional rights. the mans dead. i dont know that they can get a convictions, if thats your thin...

Without warrant to intrude into a state business doesnt understand that the 14th amendment and laws passed pursuant to that, to protect emancipated african-americans from arbitrary state power and the reconstruction of the south. gives this the color of law. and the federal government is doing what the law -- the amendment and the laws are supposed to do, which is to, in this case, examine not whether racial discrimination was involved but whether, perhaps, for example, disproportionate force wa...

Ive read in the media quoting police officials and those who train police saying that this was not a chokehold. it might have been carotid restriction but it was not a chokehold. what was eric garner doing? he was selling cigarettes, loose cigarettes. the police in new york, because theyre so eager for tax collection, what is being done here with regard to taxes and the states desire to collect them no matter what, how many cops were descended on that situation? for cigarettes. how many people s...

Ive read in the media quoting police officials and those who train police saying that this was not a chokehold. it might have been carotid restriction but it was not a chokehold. what was eric garner doing? he was selling cigarettes, loose cigarettes. the police in new york, because theyre so eager for tax collection, what is being done here with regard to taxes and the states desire to collect them no matter what, how many cops were descended on that situation? for cigarettes. how many people s...

Truth for the advancement of their own political agenda. and its just not productive. and the president taking sides in this in a way that further divides the country, i find, reprehensible and very unfortunate, too. >> lets talk, though -- you talk about ferguson and, frankly, i agree with you. i think thats a case where there was plenty of reasonable doubt about what officer wilson did. but lets talk about the eric garner case, which a lot of people think is different. in fact, at the beginnin...

Who testified who were with him and were holding eric garner down, i understand they all testified. but they received um mimmunity any prosecution. is that a problem? >> its absolutely a problem and its further evidence that the grand jury system is broken and that this particular prosecutor didnt seem to be interested in aggressively arriving at the truth. there should have been an indictment. we should have a trial. it should be public for all the world to see. at this point, if these officers...

About someone who was a suspect in a minor petty crime. >> and that day presumably, what weve been told by several people, he wasnt even trying to sell cigarettes that day although he did have criminal charges selling illegal cigarettes over the past few years. >> absolutely. but nothing that involved crime or violence, nothing serious, petty things and whatnot. not the kind of crimes that you use deadly force to bring somebody to justice. >> is the justice system in the united states fair? >> n...

Released. that differs from the situation down in ferguson, missouri. were hopeful we can get some understanding as to what took place, what questions were asked? was officer pantaleo aggressively cross-examined for his reasoning behind the use of the chokehold and his failure to relent during any of the moments when eric garner said he couldnt breathe? these are just some of the questions -- we also need to know, wolf, did this prosecutor actually request that officer pantaleo be charged? with ...