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>> with the abuse of authority. >> okay. because i think the police were wrong. i think this was wrong. but for different reasons. >> what was wrong? >> i think arresting somebody for untaxed cigarettes is madness and a misuse of public funds for the police department. they shouldn't have known his name. they shouldn't have referred to him as mr. cigarette man. they shouldn't have referred to the white as mr. cigarette woman. liberal government in new york so greedy they send cops every day into every convenience store to check the cigarettes. that's why he was arrested nine times for that. >>...

A country -- >> two things -- >> -- that's run by the rule of law. is anything you have specific evidence? >> two things. the combination of race and prejudices with power and authority. those are being abused -- >> any evidence in these cases. >> eric garner laid on that floor pleading for his life and both white and black police officers and emt workers let that man die. so what i'm saying is that if you combine prejudice with the use of power -- >> so the black officer was prejudice? >> with the abuse of authority. >> okay. because i think the police were wrong. i think this was wrong. but ...

Didn't they start giving him cpr? >> when he said i can't breathe eleven times, why didn't the cop -- he was not resisting -- >> let me -- hang on, hang on. i want to shock him. >> female black sergeant, if that was a racial event -- >> hang on. i want to shock you by saying i agree in this sense. it is outrageous to me. you know what the cops what his wife said when she said it wasn't racial. do you know what they called him? the cigarette man. do you know what they called her? mrs. cigarette man. >> i'm aware of that. >> six dollars in taxes, creates a black market. so officers are told by t...