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Police. these are difficult decisions that must be made in the field and thats why theres rules and regulations regarding number of officers that can be involved and how closely they should be monitored. each individual police officer can call off his or her own chase and in this case many officers did and we appreciate the fact and it should be noted police officers and leaders in the first fourth and fifth districts refused to allows the zone cars to join the chase that grew out of control. go...

Then hands of the police not justifiable use of deadly force under ohio law and the guylines created by the supreme court of the united states the grand jury will bring charges against those involved and we will prosecute. this ultimately in all cases or thus ultimately in all cases the decision will go back to the people. it is also the policy of this office to make public the independent investigations of police actions. we did so in this case with the bci investigation, of a vol luminous acco...

Thinks is a violation of the constitution and privacy by the bulk collection by the federal government of phone records. but not just rand paul. also progressive democrats like ron wyden and martin hinerick of oregon and new mexico said no. what you had is a case where mcconnell was sort of throwing the hail mary pass to say if you cant agree on this could we do that short-term extension. even though there had been senators who had said they would object, they had to be physically present there ...

Of november 29, 2012 we will now review the testimony and evidence presented in that state trial. we will continue our assessment review all available legal options and will collaboratively determine what if any additional steps are available and appropriate given the requirements and limitations of the applicable laws in the federal judicial system. lets bring in an msnbc legal analyst, former criminal prosecutor with a welcome to you, your reaction to the verdict, how do you see that? >> well ...

Against two individuals who are unarmed if so he gave a backdrop to his decision. he talked about that because he understands that also the department of justice has found that the cleveland police department has engaged in a pattern and practice of excessive force. knowing that his decision was going to be an acquittal i think he wanted to take time to address those issues and say, im not considering this case just in a vacuum im not in a bubble, im aware of everything else going around thats g...

A.m. out west. we have this breaking news out of cleveland. a judge has just found police officer michael brelo not guilty on all charges that would include voluntarily manslaughter in connection with the 2012 fatal shootings of timothy russell and malissa williams both of whom were unarmed. the incident became known as the 137 shots case because of the number of bullets fired by 13 police officers at the end of a high-speed chase. officer brelo fired the most shots, 49 total, but his last 15 sh...

Investigations. we appreciate the funding of cuyahoga county and the executive has provided to us. this is an expense to the county to form this task force and dos these independent investigations. you have seen from this trial and others that it takes a great deal of time and investigation to do the scientific and other investigation necessary to examine a case. the city of cleveland agreed to use of the ohio bureau of investigation to independent investigate the heritage middle school case and...

Involved. >> that seems like a complete violation of what the -- our law stands for -- >> the reality is that those are the informal workings of the courtroom group and a police officer thats facing these things has the evidence before him, knows exactly what hes up against and says i want a professional of the law to make this decision. i dont want a group of people from the community who are going to react to historical events like ferguson. >> exactly. >> and baltimore and say -- >> so it sou...

That can be trained. a lot of training can accompany when to shoot, dont shoot scenarios and in more involved police scenarios. one of the things thats as big as training is command and control. the sergeant on the ground like eisenhower said the sergeant is the army. the sergeant is the police as well and the lieutenants. they have to call it off. in each of these disasters we see sergeants and lieutenants involved, who dont stop the beating, dont stop an aggressive case like this. if youre goi...

She was extremely emotional asking why did they have to do this as they showed a picture of the car in which the two victims were shot. >> pretty profound pictures there. lets talk about as we show our viewers live pictures of those protesters outside where you are in cleveland. what specifically are they protesting? >> well there are two cases, actually more than two cases here. the other high-profile case here in cleveland is the case of tamir rice, a young man who was shot. >> right. >> in a ...