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In this city are being save bid our police officers. and during the time i was mayor -- and i don't mind saying this -- i saved more black lives than any mayor in the history of this city, because i was not afraid to police according to statistics, and not to what al sharpton would try to sell you as black propaganda. >> so how do you explain the protests we've seen across this city and elsewhere where they think that police are using excessive force and they think police are treating communities of color differently. >> it's the sail way that people are afraid of flying on an airplane than tr...

Persons involved with the protests. >> mark novak, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks very much for having me. >> digging deeper on this, sunny hostin, also general counsel for the st. louis police officers association, he's also the attorney for former ferguson police officer darren wilson. sunny, let's start with you. mark novak, you just heard him say the comments from patrick lynch regarding the mayor's office having blood on its hands reflected the emotions of rank and file police. even if that's true, was it appropriate for the head of the police union to say that? >> well, no, i...

Holder have come under criticism. joy reid sat down with the outgoing attorney general for an exit interview. in part one of that interview aired last week, he discussed the relationship between local police and black americans. in part two, he discussed his own accomplishments in office when it came to race. and here in part three, he enand joy discuss the importance of the civil rights movement and how protests made it possible. >> do people appreciate enough this -- you know, what was accomplished by the civil rights movement? do people forget the lessons of it? >> i think we're surrounded ...

Take a look at this. the live pictures coming in from brooklyn. this is a candlelight vigil in memory of those two police officers, rafael ramos wenjian liu who were assaulted in their patrol car, gunned down over the weekend, awful situation. as we mentioned at the top of the program, new york's mayor is calling for unity and quiet reflection. >> i'm asking everyone -- and this is across the spectrum -- to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, let's focus on these families and what they've lost. >> the mayor says the two families of the fallen officers ...

Sow hea so you heard from the heroes of the bedford-stuyvesant ambulance corps tonight. for more on their work go to bsvac.org. that's it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. i'm don lemon. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. night. "ac 360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for anderson. president obama said the united states would retaliate against north korea at a time of its own choosing for the sony cyberattack. tonight north korea's internet is down. the question is did washington just pull the plug on kim jong un? ...