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Police officers across the country to be required to wear body cameras. there was no video evidence of what happened in the shooting of michael brown in part because ferguson police did not regularly use cameras. well, on monday of this week, president obama announced he would ask congress for $263 million to cover the cost of 50,000 new body cameras plus training on the use of those cameras for police officers across the country. in the eric garner case, though, the staten island case, there was video, right? what appeared to many people to be quite damning video of the encounter eric garner ...

His widow watching president obama make those remarks today. as they're watching, you see who is there with them. he's standing alongside reverend al sharpton. reverend al has been at the center of this case in response to it for months ever since eric garner's death in july, he's held rallies with the garner family here in new york city as the legal process has been unfolding. earlier this month he also spoke at eric garner's funeral. >> when you can, in broad daylight, choke one of god's children, god expects us to stand up and demand justice and fairness and quit acting like that's just one...

Hold is illegal in new york, a man saying 11 times on the video once he's down and helpless being held down by other police saying i can't breathe and the policeman continues to choke him and that's not probable cause to go to trial, then we know that the system is broken. and all we're saying is follow the law. the grand jury is not there to set up whether or not one is innocent or guilty but whether there's probable cause to proceed. and i think it's important to say this, rachel, in other areas where people have questioned juries, no one called them rabble-rouser ors age at a ti r. why when...

From seeing the video, just from seeing the video, how would you prosecute this case? >> look, i have real concerns. and one of the things we haven't really been discussing is that ohio is an open carry state. and so that means that you are allowed, if you have a permit, to have a gun in the public. the fact that the decision was made so quickly without an assessment as to whether this individual was over the age of 18, whether or not he may have had a permit, without an assessment of whether he was using that gun inappropriately and threatening either the officer or someone else is the real i...

De blasio. thank you for being here. joining us tonight from the streets of staten island, from the site very near where eric garner was killed in july of this year. the protests you're seeing in the streets of new york. these protests are in response to the grand jury decision that there would be no charges brought against the new york city police officer who effectively killed mr. garner by putting him what appeared to be a choke hold on the video that's been distributed so widely since that day. the big question now is whether any other charges will be brought. could there be federal charge...