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What happens next. joining us now, letisha james, the public advocate for the city of new york. an unusual job title but a really important one in the nation's largest city. letisha jones is the second in command ubld mayor bill de blasio. she has been an active pro opponent of the body camera program. thank you for being with us. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> first i have to ask, your decision, your reaction as a public advocate to this decision by the grand jury today that there will not be an indictment in mr. garner's death. >> obviously i'm very, very disappointed...

>> reverend sharpton has been meeting with the garner family late tonight. he also spoke with the attorney general eric holder shortly after the grand jury decision was announced. late tonight eric holder also announced the federal department of justice has opened a federal investigation into eric garner's death. joining us live, reverend al sharpton, thanks very much for being here. i know it is a busy time for you. >> thank you, rachel. >> i know you have been with eric garner's family tonight. how are they doing and what is their reaction to this news today? >> well, they are absolutely out...

But in this case, in this he think did, the existence of the video showing the killing was not enough to convince the grand jury that there was any need for a trial in this case. when the widow of eric garner was first told of the grand jury's decision today, the decision to not charge known in the death of her husband, her first words in response were, oh, my god, are you serious? she then said you can see in the video that the police officer was dead wrong. esaw garner is her name. she is eric garner's widow. she told the new york daily news right after she heard about the announcement today...

Blasio canceled to talk with eric garner's family. i don't mean to be weird but one of the things you should know about mayor de blasio is he is really large physically. he is about 6'6". his wife is named shirlane de blasio. they have two children, a son and a daughter. i mention race as it relates to the de blasio family and also his height specifically because the mayor talked tonight with some real emotion about what it is like to have a high school aged african-american son who is a big guy. in the context of these recent police killings of unarmed african-american men in our country. >> ...

Actually expected to go into effect for another month. then today the day of the eric garner announcement, they moved up the body cam's announcement basically to now. in the ferguson, missouri case after a grand jury decided not to indict officer darren wilson in the death of 18-year-old michael brown, michael brown's family asked people to support their call for police officers across the country to be required to wear body cameras. there was no video evidence of wham in the shooting of amico brown in part because ferguson police did not regularly use cameras. on monday of this week, presiden...