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Believe -- and it's not a belief anymore. it happens. how difficult is it to hold a police officer accountable for the death of an unarmed civilian? >> it's not happening. >> and if a case like this happens, with it being on video, what is the message that you send? what evidence do you need at this point to prove excessive force? and what goodwill body cameras do if a case like this is on video and you can't even meet the threshold level of probable cause to move forward with a trial? what message are we sending? >> faith jenkins, jim cavanaugh and seema iyer, thank you for you te your time t...

Oath. and federal prosecutors filed similar rights charges. more than three years after the assault, the officer was convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. so will we see similar charges in garner's case? and how could a federal case be made? joining me now is zachary carter. corporation counsel of the city of new york and former u.s. attorney. thank you for being here. zachary, your office investigated if there was a pattern of misconduct in the nypd after the baez and la weema cases and you prosecuted the police officers in the la weema case, a case i was involved in to...

From their comrades, their teammates, a lot of institutional pressure to be very reelectrluctant to pull th trigger an cases. they would much rather the u.s. attorney's office be dealing with it than a local elected prosecutor who has to work every day with the men and women in the police force. >> susan, we were talking about the anthony baez case that you represented. so many similarities between that case and eric garner's. i want to play a part of the "today" show from 1995 when his family was interviewed. let's watch this. >> baez was playing touch football with his brothers late one nigh...

Charges will be brought against that officer. it's unclear whether or not federal charges might be brought in this case as well like they were years ago in the baez case. the just department has opened a federal probe into the death of eric garner. if the local federal prosecutor, local u.s. attorney does decide to bring charges, it's worth noting the local u.s. prosecutor here is this woman. she's named loretta lynch. and she has just been nominated by president obama to succeed eric holder as the next attorney general of the united states. she's got jurisdiction here. joining us from staten ...

Enough to convince a 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 anyone 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's eric garner's widow. she told the new york daily news right after she heard of the grand jury announcement today, quote, the grand jury kept interviewing witnesses. but you didn't see witnesses. you ca...