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Grand jury considering the facts in this case have they met in brooklyn or queens or manhattan may have come up with a different decision because of the unique character, shall we say, of staten island? >> thats in fact the thinking that has propelled the garner family to request a federal investigation because it would then be tried in the brooklyn federal court and the demographics would be much different and so thats why they have asked for a federal prosecutor to intervene. >> chief alexande...

Beating on somebody. this is a group of officers who are trying to take a large human being into custody who just doesnt want to comply. >> the big problem here, lori, and youve studied this from various angles, is that a lot of people in the united states are losing confidence in the entire legal system, the justice system, in the country. they think its unfair to which you say? >> well, thats the biggest problem, because frankly, as was said before, we need our police, but we need them to do t...

Joining us the former federal prosecutor lori levston, joining us from los angeles, in washington, cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, a form fbi assistant director. councilwoman rose, let me start with you. youve said very bluntly, repeatedly, that the juses tis system here in the united states shows in your words that black life is valueless. explain what you mean by that. those are powerful, strong words. >> well, once again, wolf, we saw that where the value of a black life had less mea...