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How do you see the police in america, generally speaking? >> i respect the police. i respect all public officials. if i could stop the world on its axis right now military firemen the police department, teachers, they should all be paid double. thats how much i respect what they do for our great country. >> so when you see protesters out there saying listen, police are generally racist and they give black americans a harder time than white americans how do you, jaylen rose, react to that? >> >> ...

How do you see the police in america, generally speaking? >> i respect the police. i respect all public officials. if i could stop the world on its axis right now military firemen the police department, teachers, they should all be paid double. thats how much i respect what they do for our great country. >> so when you see protesters out saying listen, police are generally racist and they give black americans a harder time than white americans how do you, jaylen rose, react to that? >> >> i dont...

Small incident escalating into something horrible. think of the way black people and white people responded when they first got the news flash of the o.j. simpson verdict. personally, i was stunned. i thought two hours of deliberation meant that the jury found him guilty. how could they not, i thought, with all the blood over the place? all the trying to escape in the white bronco with the passport to the skies? why would a beloved celebrity go racing for the border when his wife is killed? i wa...

Something horrible. think of the way black people and white people responded when they first got the news flash of the o.j. simpson verdict. personally, i was stunned. i thought two hours of deliberation meant that the jury found him guilty. how could they not, i thought, with all the blood over the place? all the trying to escape in the white bronco with the passport to the skies? why would a beloved celebrity go ri racing for the border when his wife is killed? i wasnt ready for the strong out...

Looking at. how could we put our trust in the justice system, when they fail us like this? they didnt only fail me, they failed many of us, and if we dont take care of this, they may fail you in the future. >> thashd are thats right. >> its worth noting you if you had any day shoe view about the protests going on, if youre having deja vu because the protests are happening at the same time that protests around the country are still continuing about the kill of ferguson, missouris michael brown. p...

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...

Looking at a feed right now from the streets of new york city. this is along the west side highway one of the main nor northwest arteries on the island of manhattan. hours before the grand jury announced its verdict in the eric garner case, the verdict thats brought out all these protesters, new york city announced theyd be moving up the initial deployment of body cameras for new york city police officers to wear while on duty. this is something that had been in the works for a while in new york...

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...

Hes down. >> put your hands, buddy. >> i cant breathe. >> i cant breathe. i cant breathe. i cant breathe. i cant breathe. i cant breathe. >> i cant breathe, i cant breathe, over and over again. eric garner was killed in that incident. killed by police on july 17th. that night, the new york daily news, as i said, posted this very disturbing video online. a few days later there was a small protest in staten island by people who were upset about the eric garner killing. but that protest in staten i...

But these took place hours before the grand jury announcement was made about the death of eric garner in staten isla island. part of what you are seeing tonight in new york and elsewhere is a direct response to the eric garner killing and nobody being charged for having killed eric garner in staten island this past july. but part of what youre seeing in these protests is a cumulative thing. each of these cases is different. each has its own and stands on its own terms and is a tragedy. but hard ...