suffer the same type of loss. i am not saying that he should die but you feel dead when you are in jail because time stands still. she is pushing for the sergeant who restrained him in the chokehold to be prosecuted. in december of last year a grand jury declined to indict him. i am here to announce that the justice department will proceed with a federal, civil rights investigation into mr. garner s death. the results of that investigation still pending. you know what that right thing is. you no he my father s death was ruled a homicide. these officers deserve to be prosecuted. reporter: in the meantime the sergeant remains stripped of his badge and gun relegated to disc duty. cnn reached out to his attorney. what happened to him resonated much further away.
and my parents. boris sanchez cnn, new york. let s bring in walter madison, the attorney for tamir rice s faufrmt hether. he was killed in a police shooting last year. we just heard eric garner s family say their justice will come when the police officers face charges. what is the possibility that that would happen at this point? it is very difficult. quite honestly, i think it is a slim chance that that would occur. it would largely depend on a federal prosecution or violation of civil rights. i don t know if that will happen for the garner family. the grand jury declined to indict the police officer as we know tit. if the family does the family have any other option of pursuing a criminal case at this point. in new york you have that situation. here in cleveland, you had the tamir rice situation.
friends say when the tennessee shooter returned home from a trip to jordan last year he was different. he had changed. he took several trips to the middle east in recent years. question. who was he visiting. cnn is using its worldwide resources to track down mohammad youssuf abdulazeez s trips overseas. we have a live report from jordan. a week since the drug kingpin slipped out of the cell in mexico. new information that might have motivated el chapo to get out quick.
chattanooga. what else have we learned? reporter: you can see behind me this memorial has become very active specially after we have learned that the fifth service member has died. his family earlier in the week while he was still fighting for his life talking to cnn about what happened. his grandmother said he saw the shooter and tried to warn everyone around him. he was shot three times once in the stomach, once in the colon ond once in the liver. he had undergone surgery earlier in the week to try and repair those wounds. the family was praying hard. he was fighting hard and unfortunately, around 4:00 a.m. this morning, he passed away. some of that detail coming from his step grandmother who talked to our cnn affiliate about what happened. you can think this will never happen to your family but by
that is according to washington post. we have learned that mueller s investigators have spoken with both attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey. the white house saying today the president hasn t fired mueller partly because of how the press would react. president trump, himself, deny christopher wray threatened to resign in the wake of pressure from attorney general jeff sessions to make changes in the senior ranks at the bureau. and in our new cnn poll, nearly eight in ten people say president trump should testify for mueller, if asked. there is a lot i know i gave you right there. so i will get right to cnn s chief correspondent jim scuitto and robert mueller s former special assistant to the d.o.j. susan hennessey. again, good evening. that is a lot we need to get to. jim, i got to get to you first.