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De-escalation training is something that is part of police training in practical every city across the united states now. what these officers did of course is not an example of that. they did just the opposite. they actually caused a situation to elevate even higher. i think to keep it in perspective, though, you know, police officers have contact with citizens every single day. they arrest people every day. they take some very dangerous people off the street, including those that are armed, and there's no injury to the cop, no injury to the citizen. but when you have instances like this, you ...

Commissioner charles ramsay. he's co-founder of the consulting group 21 century policing solutions. chief ramsay, let me ask you first. you watched that video. do you think the police officers behaved correctly? >> no. no. i mean threatening to shoot the individual in the head, all that sort of thing, the swearing, no, that certainly is not standard procedure. >> david, you look at this and based on what we know, do you agree that they did something wrong here, that they should have paid for it with more than lossing their jobs? >> that's some of the worst police work i've ever seen in my life...

About 4 or 5 to 17. they're trying their best they can to keep those kids from watching the video. they don't want them to have to see their father that way. reportedly one of the family members of the sterling family passed out after seeing the video. i asked them about this notion of closure that the police chief brought up at the press conference. i said, do you think the family will get closure after seeing these videos? they say the real closure will come if the city steps up, according to the attorney, and goes forward with the civil lawsuit. one of the things, jim, real quick is they're...

Camera in this case, there's huge questions about whether the public or the family would be able to see it. >> and maybe they should be turned on automatically. they should be triggered by something automatically. david, what did you say? >> they have a policy in place and it suggests in an event which could become critical, you should use it. a traffic stop for example. so i would think if it's enough to suggest a body camera should be turned on, an event where you're showing up there's no reason not to have it on and at the very least they were fully trained. officer noris going to be looked...

Since 2014. but what we've yet to see is a full set of best practices of when they should be used and beyond that, had there been a camera in this case, there's huge questions about whether the public or the family would be able to see it. >> and maybe they should be turned on automatically. they should be triggered by something automatically. david, what did you say? i'm sorry, mark? >> they have a policy in place and the policy suggests in an event which could become critical that you should use it. a traffic stop for example. so i would think that if a traffic stop is enough that an event i...