Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151229:02:10:00
But melissa, when you fail to prosecute, you also send a message. so the message in tamir's town is that what happened to this 12-year-old boy when the cops roll up on him, less than two seconds he's shot dead. to me the most revealing fact if i were prosecuting this case and my closing statement, what i would tell the jurors is that cop car hadn't even stopped rolling before tamir was dead. and the message, when you don't prosecute that cop, is that that's legal, that it's okay for an officer to do that or at worst it's a mistake. but again, that's not the message i think we want to send. >> ...