and a nation and i have to say, lawrence, you watched the situations all around the country. this is the premier police department and the nation and not so long ago it would not have been necessarily assumed that a trial inside the nypd with an nypd deputy commissioner as the judge would result in this level of accountability. that judge said no that was a prohibited chokehold. that was wrong. and this officer should be determi terminated. they sent back to the commissioner. the commissioner concurred. this is the process working. it should have happened a long time ago. and if it were not for the u.n. department of justice telling the city of new york not to proceed, we would have done this a long time ago. >> and we learned a very painful lesson from that serns with a justice department over two different presidential administrations. >> let me go to that. its no the so much they were not telling you not. to they were requesting that you not proceed.