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If you look at video those cops, somebody 5-foot tall taking on this big man trying to get him down. looks like a massive guy that can give you a lot of problems so they wanted to get him to the ground so nobody else would get injured, no intention was there by those officers to kill this man and for them to use this as a racist thing. if he was 65" white guy it would have gone down the same way. the racial aspect is disturbing to me, new york city is black, white, hispanic, everything and for u...

Just standing here the whole time minding my business. >> reporter: an autopsy concluded he died from compression of his neck and chest. the other officers piling on. pantaleos partner had been given immunity. but the grand jury composed of 13 or 14 white and 9 or 10 black or hispanic jurors could have indicted pantaleo on a range of charges. pantaleo issuing a statement saying, i feel very bad about the death of mr. garner and offering his family his condolences. the president citing what he sa...

>> 23 non-white african-american and hispanic. >> more diverse than i would have expected. >> you still have to get that majority. >> im sorry, eric garnspeaking. lets listen. >> he should be here celebrating thanksgiving and christmas with his children and grandchildren and he cant. why? because a cop did wrong. somebody that get paid to do right did wrong and hes not held accountable for it but my husbands death will not be in vain. as long as i have a breath in my body, i will fight until the...

Is resisting arrest, the police are trying to bring him down as quickly as possible. if he had not had asthma and a heart condition, and was so obese, most definitely he would not have died from this. the police had no reason to know he was in serious condition. people are saying he said 11 times or 7 times i cant breathe. fact is if you cant breathe, you cant talk. >> your response to that, congressman meeks? >> peter king was dead wrong. there has been medical testimony showing that when you t...

>> niece a mixed marriage and his son is like president obama, half black, half white. and he went into his own personal story and how i tell my son how to act differently make sure youre not going to be a threat. so was that appropriate, in your mind, for a public official -- >> he wants to tell his son to act appropriately with the police, everybody should. black father, white fathers, hispanic fathers, mixed race fathers, we should all tell our children to act appropriately with the police. i...

To watch? this is where holder makes his mistake. go ahead. >> when you talk about new york. michael bloomberg. the stop and frisk issue. he wrote this and not that long ago talking about targeting manpower in areas of high crime. he says that 90% of all people killed in our city. 90% of those who commit the murders and other violent crimes are black and hispanic. its shameful that so many elected officials and editorial writers have been largely silent on those facts. >> thats not politically c...

Reasons. given the spectrum, anderson, of the charges that were out there from reckless endangerment to manslaughter, they were surprised. one thing is, the police officer is not trained to fear black men. 85% to 95% black. i wasnt trained to fear black men. i was trained to fear men who present a danger to me. black, white, hispanic, it didnt matter. thats just not true. >> this is how it feels as a community when you see a 12-year-old, tamir, be shot to death in three seconds. a 12-year-old. h...

Overreacted. >> you see the arms wrapped around the necks of the suspect. but in new york state chokeholds are banned but not illegal under state law when theyre used during a lawful arrest. there is no question it was a lawful arrest. when the mayor is talking about how its a racial thing, what you see in some of the video is you actually see that as the officer takes him down right there, it is an african-american female new york city police department sergeant. at no time does the sergeant or...

Care. sort of negligence is. in lawyers world. a lack of standard of care. a carelessness. in the way that eric garner was treated. im frustrated because, this is a great case for us to have said we are not going to allow this. this is the landmark case cops cannot act this way. in a minor crime with an event where it led to a death. and unfortunately, now, we still have to try and make sense and trust in the system that seemed to come up with a -- with an, a decision that didnt make sense. >> a...

To watch? this is where holder makes his mistake. go ahead. >> when you talk about new york. michael bloomberg. the stop and frisk issue. he wrote this and not that long ago talking about targeting manpower in areas of high crime. he says that 90% of all people killed in our city. 90% of those who commit the murders and other violent crimes are black and hispanic. its shameful that so many elected officials and editorial writers have been largely silent on those facts. >> thats not politically c...