when garner is laying on the ground and pantaleo is standing up behind him, there s a female sergeant standing right over the body and she s in charge of the situation. you can see her plainly standing and overseeing the situation of the four or five officers that have hands on eric garner. so let s talk about before the arrest, let s talk about probable cause for selling loosies. is there any record anywhere that shows that there s a complaint, that we ve heard of, that was actual probable cause for the arrest? here s what we know. in new york, about 50% of cigarettes, they are so heavily taxed, they are sold on the black market. especially in poor neighborhoods where people can t afford to buy a pack of cigarettes, untaxed cigarettes.
caused by unsufficient accountability and ineffective policies. to our south, the naacp is investigating racial text messages, red aloud by derek forward. what do apples and black people have in common? they both hang from trees. reporter: as elecalexandra f, cnn, new york. we re finding out more about the officer who put him in the chokehold. cnn s brian todd is being looking at what people are saying about daniel pantaleo. reporter: the officer seen subduing eric garner, depending on who you talk to, say he s a reckless cop or a cop with a good reputation. officials with new york s police union speak glowingly about daniel pantaleo who one member
he was still breathing while on the ground and the most compelling part of the video is, he s on the ground saying, i can t breathe, i can t breathe and they continue to subdued him but that s not so much pantaleo at that point, that s the other cops. so maybe the grand jury says the other guys are the guilty ones but the d.a. gave them immunity and they can t be charged. i m wondering if a real strategic error was made by the d.a. in how he presented the case to the jury. what do you think about that, tom? do you think it was an error? i completely agree with paul. it appears that the d.a. was trying to zero in on pantaleo but giving that immunity to the other police officers so at least that goes against the question that pantaleo was trying to be exempted or the d.a. wasn t serious about trying to have him indicted but also was the supervising police officer on the scene also granted immunity as you see,
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the problem is, a new york city officer who makes 300 arrests is bound to have some complaints. it comes with pit falls. one of them was settled for $30,000 which tells me the city said, get rid of this lawsuit and the heck with it. okay. thank you, guys. thank you, tom. darryl, paul, tom. on sunday we ll dig deeper into the issue of aggressive police. it s called black in america, black & blue at 11:00 p.m. tonight. coming up, we ll talk to a medical expert about the ems response. don t go anywhere. how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don t think so. well if you start putting that towards