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We have already heard from eric garner's family. they have spent the last five years demanding justice for his death. only to see the federal government and the staten island jury decline to indict officer pantaleo. this was the family just moments ago. >> eric garner was killed five years ago. it took five years for the officer to be fired. i don't want another eric garner. i will do everything in my power to never see another eric garner. i don't want to see another video of a person being choked out. because it wasn't supposed to happen to him and it's not supposed to happen. i should not b...

Death. and the opinion that was released today the administrative law judge found that officer pantaleo lied when he claimed he had not used a choke hold and that in fact his conduct was reckless. it was a gross deviation from what a police officer is supposed to do. chris, i don't think anybody should be satisfied when five years later a homicidal cop who choked a man to death is told he can no longer be a police officer. that's what is supposed to pass for justice? for people of color. and it's insufficient. the fact is that in the five years since eric garner was killed, there had been 800 ...

Himself, but there was a process. there was a trial, a hearing, it lasted for a couple of weeks. there was witnesses, testimony, evidence comprehended and a judge who was a police commissioner went through all of that and decided that in fact officer pantaleo had violated the department policy. had for a brief moment or so -- did in fact have eric garner in a choke hold which is a banned practice by the police department. and for that reason, he should be fired. he should be dismissed. now, again, as you point out, the u.s. attorney's office chose not to prosecute it because they said that the...

Be used in vain, we have to do a complete overhaul of the accountability mechanisms that mediate the relationships between police and communities that they're supposed to serve. >> paul, you literally wrote the book on choke holds and pantaleo had tried to argue that what he did was not a choke hold and we know that the administrative judge thought about that. one of the things that came up at the garner family press conference reverend al said we need to make choke holds illegal. this can't be a violation of the rules and the regulations. help us put this into context what you think this mean...

The police. i agree that there are no winners here. this family continues to grieve, this family just continues to suffer incredible losses. not just with their father, but of course eric garner who literally died of a broken heart fighting on behalf of her family and for the legacy and memory of her father. so, yes, it ask a step forward and an important one because it signals as other cases have that when police do things that are wrong that they must be held accountable. it's important for us to remember that this particular officer, this was not the first time that this had happened. this ...