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Mcelmary broke that story in 1997 about abner louima. he was a young man, an immigrant from haiti, arrest bid police officers in brooklyn, beat nen their patrol car with night sticks and police radios. then he was taken to a police station house in brooklyn where officers violently raped him with a broken-off broom handle. he needed three rounds of surgery and two months of hospitalization to recover from his injuries. he was so grievously injured that the police did realize they had to take him...

Weve got to start acting like its everybodys problem. >> in terms of the hope for moving forward and literally hope being the operative word here. i feel like a lot of people are talking particularly around the eric garner case and the michael brown case about feeling hopeless, that everything is futile, that protest is essentially a way to exert feelings and exude feelings and let people see what your feelings are but its not a way to get anything done. i feel -- i hear and ive been interviewin...

Department. because theyre so terrible. but in the meantime, that is the cop who killed the 12-year-old boy. and this was cleveland today. and this is new york tonight. and this is washington, d.c. tonight. people in d.c. yelling tonight "if i cant breathe, you cant breathe." this is chicago tonight. and the protests tonight are about the death of eric garner in new york and the hope for justice in his case is that the federal government might step in where the local authorities would not. maybe...

That journalist, mike mcalary, and he learned the story from abner louima himself in his hospital bed. mike mcllary wrote a story, "this is a story to stop the city." and the daily news put it on the front page and those torture cops as the daily news called them-u know what? they did end up going to prison. they went to federal prison. because they prosecuted those officers out of the u.s. attorneys office in new york. one of the prosecutors on that trial team was loretta lynch, who went on to ...

Until they get an indictment in the death of eric garner. there is just as much anger out here tonight, just as much passion, but its not that sort of wide variety of people that we saw last night in midtown manhattan. rachel? >> nbc news correspondent anne thompson out live right now on 14th street in downtown manhattan. anne, well be checking back in with you. i want to bring now to the conversation connie schultz, joining us from cleveland tonight. connies a pulitzer prize-winning syndicated ...

Today. >> and a starbucks is there and explains why everyone is moving around so quickly. >> need lots of caffeine. >> thank you, nicole. >> dont miss nicole on the fox business network. if youre not sure where to find it, log onto fox business news channel finder. it is worth it. and in new york city, after the chokehold decision is handed down. now, just one state over, new jersey chris christie weighing in on the eric garner case, why hes refusing to second-guess the grand jurys decision. ...

Regime. >> north korea would be wanting to attack this particular movie and the people responsible for this particular movie. this is a much broader attack. >> reporter: there were reports today that some sony employees have gotten e-mails from hackers threatening family members. we asked sony about that a couple seconds ago. we got a statement saying we understand that some of our employees have received an e-mail claiming to be from the guardians of peace, the group that claimed responsibility...

Residents about police procedures. the clinton administration disputes those who say police matters are purely a local responsibility. >> we believe that the federal government can play a vital role in making sure that local enforcement can be as good as it possibly can be. the whole notion of putting 100,000 police officers on the street is something that this federal government has tried to -- has tried to foster. >> there have been a number of high-profile cases involving charges of police mi...

Just listen in quickly to hear what theyre saying. >> what do we want? >> justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> you see the demonstrations in cleveland. these are pictures coming in from chicago where the crowds are growing over there, in new york as well. right here in the nations capital in washington, d.c. were following the breaking news, the new protests nationwide over the new york police chokehold case. were watching those marchers in various cities. you saw cleveland, streets of chi...

Isnt handled the same way everywhere in this country. different place, different states, different cities try different reforms. they try different things to reduce the conflict inherent enforcing the law when the people in charge of law enforcement are the ones who may have broken it. in the michael brown case when the local prosecutor came in on day one of that grand jury and talked to that grand jury about what was about to happen as they considered whether or not to indict a police officer f...