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They saw nothing or they know nothing. >> it takes more than an hour from the time the first punch is thrown until officers finally enter the tank and discover herman, blood-soaked and severely beaten. herman is put on a stretcher and carted down to the jails medical facility. >> injuries from the back of my head and then stitches over both of my eyes. and then i had a shattered jaw, and my whole right side of my face was all swollen up. i think there was black-and-blue bruises from being kicked...

Targeting police officers, one man was arrested after guns and bullet-proof vests were found at his home after he was allegedly heard saying, quoting now, im going to kill another cop. he also allegedly said they should have killed two white cops instead of an hispanic and an asian. new york congressman peter king who attended todays wake for officer ramos stayed that police deserve our respect and support. >> we have to end it, we have to stand by our police and the fact that 99.9% of police of...

Countries. they speak 65 different languages within the department. the police department in any city has to be us for a city to sustain itself and i think they do it admirably in new york city. >> they do it admirably and they have done it for a long time. while he was talking about it, we saw the racial breakdown of police officers. its a widely diverse organization and also, guess what, look at that, 41% white, 28% black, 24% hispanic, 6% asian. at the end of the day over the past several dec...

Choke hold. is there the slightest evidence anywhere that this had anything to do with race? and if the man involved had been hispanic or white or asian this would not have happened? theres no evidence of that at all. indeed, i think his wife has spoken about that and said this wasnt -- and then all of a sudden it becomes -- and i think heres where the demagogues step in. it becomes a racial issue. the policemen who were shot were not white as defined by statistics or by the census one was hispa...

From demonstrating, politicizing until the burial of the officer. the hardcore will be out there, but what we saw early on demonstrating in new york, white and asian and hispanic, who really were worried about how the police were treating that young man who died in staten island, they wont be out there after seeing that video. >> in the beginning of december, the president said one of the ways you can approach whats going on in many places across the country is increase community policing. lets ...

Choke hold. is there the slightest evidence anywhere that this had anything to do with race? and if the man involved had been hispanic or white or asian this would not have happened? theres no evidence of that at all. indeed, i think his wife has spoken about that and said this wasnt -- and then all of a sudden it becomes -- and i think heres where the demagogues step in. it becomes a racial issue. the policemen who were shot were not white as defined by statistics or by the census department. o...

Things, last night it sounded like there was yet a new slogan. they were saying how do you spell racist, n-y-p-d. here is what the former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani, said in response to that chant. listen to this on cnn. >> this new york police department is not an all-white police department. in fact, its not even majority white police department. i think. this is a very, very diverse police department. hispanic and chinese in this particular case, americans. so this kind of thing has bee...

Mexico? >> he has a hispanic wife. he speaks a little spanish, not too good. >> better than hillary. >> yeah. i think his draw back will be foreign policy. i think you saw this with rubio where i think president obamas initiative on cuba will be very popular by the time the election happens. although i think rubio has a point. cuba -- we dont know on cuba is how castro will react to this. >> where is fidel? >> he was down on this. i think cuba has to release political prisoners, they have to be ...

That national vote. i think that -- >> could he do well in new mexico? >> he has a hispanic wife. he speaks a little spanish, not too good. >> better than hillary. >> yeah. i think his draw back will be foreign policy. i think you saw this with rubio where i think president obamas initiative on cuba will be very popular by the time the election happens. although i think rubio has a point. cuba -- we dont know on cuba is how castro will react to this. >> where is fidel? >> he was down on this. i ...

These are his words. he said "we will return to the crime rates of the 70s and 80s and then maybe there will be appreciation for the police." do you believe that? >> i think there will be officers who will take a step back. >> by the way, in all communities, black, white, hispanic, mixed race, all communities. >> i think there will be officers that will take that position but by and large theyre going to go out there and do their job. theyre going to do their job in an incredibly difficult circu...