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Of the deaths of unarmed black men like eric garner. it went on to say all of this mistrust is clouding at hand and distrust building for years. >> reporter: a shocking moment, as new york mayor bill de blasio entered the hospital saturday where the mortally injured officers were taken, fellow police turned their backs on him, a powerful and divisive message to the mayor of this major city who has lost their trust. noel leader was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> i've never seen hostilities this heightened before in my career. >> reporter: one nypd union, the patrolmen's benevolent associa...

And serve. within that protection and serving, they have these police come out to be very aggressive. not all police. we have many good cops throughout this country. but we have some that are overzealous. they're training the police to come out and be aggressive when they're making charges against these individuals. who's training the general public in terms of how we're supposed to respond to police when they come to you in a very aggressive manner. when they come to you with more aggressive police. i remember being a kid down the streets in new york, we used to have beat cops. we had respect...

Killed. so it's a problem that chicago is wrestling with, and they're doing the best they can. fred? >> and you say, you know, it's something the city is wrestling with. but what can the city do when we say it's doing the best that it can? >> reporter: well, the city's trying to implement a lot of sort of creative strategies when it comes to policing, when it comes to giving young people, especially young black men options, opportunities. the problem is the culture of gang violence that exists in chicago. you know, they're trying to do after-school programs. they're trying to do more creative ...

from dallas, texas. we have a couple of things going on here. obviously health concerns over the people in richmond, california, near that refinery fire plus the financial hit we're all going to take if gas prices spike make above $4 a gallon. >> it has been going on for several weeks now. you blinked and it seems like you missed it. over the course of the last month or so gas prices have gone up about 30 cents, the national average now $3.66 a gallon, up about 30 cents and in the last month. the fire in richmond is just one of the problems. obviously there is a great deal of global ...

Like safety in numbers. they won't attack me because everyone is filming. >> you said the blue shirts, the lower ranking, the patrolmen, as they are called, they weren't out of control and they weren't behaving that way until the white shirts showed up. >> yeah, totally true. at first when they started with the orange nets, they were still blue-shirted beat cops or whatever they were. and they weren't pushing people out of the way. they weren't being violent about it. they were definitely trying to corral us still but they weren't being forceful in an indis indiscerning way. >> what do you thi...