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David clinger, former lapd. what are the concerns out there in los angeles, and prior to this, you must have already -- or those in the department have been thinking this way. >> absolutely. you know, i left l.a. many years ago, talked this evening with a friend of mine out there, and he shares the same concern. that these things can go national. and if you look back in the 1960s and '70s, there were violent shootouts between radicals, and american law enforcement officers literally all over the country. and if, in fact, this is the leading edge of something that is going to look similar to th...

Of duty. david, i'm going to start with you. your partner was attacked. >> we responded to a call enbarry gueded gunman was in the house on the north side of vernon. so my partner and i were moving up to button down what we call the west edge of the perimeter and one of the people across the street wouldn't leavement my partner tried to get him out of there. the next thing i knew the people stabbed my partner in the chest with a butcher knife and my partner backed away. he knocked him to the ground and as i run across the street the suspect has his hands like this, going down on my partner. th...

Enemy. before you jump to that conclusion consider this, two new york city police officers were allegedly assaulted by protesters during a demonstration on the brooklyn bridge on saturday. police say lieutenant philip khan and patrick sullivan were bruised all over their bodies and lieutenant khan has a broken nose. on average a law enforcement officer is killed every 58 hours. it comes from the national law enforcement officers memorial fund. what do we want from the men and women sworn to protect us and what do they want from us? we've got police officers and retired officers here with us to...

Issue. this is a national crisis. it's about, you know, the police abusing they power. >> all right. let me introduce our panel. former police officer rashid abdul salaam, a security specialist and a private investigator and former police officer david clinger and a defense attorney here with me in new york and retired police lieutenant michael bell joins me. his 21-year-old son was gunned down in his own driveway. thank you, all, for being with me. let me begin with this. erika garner who is the daughter of eric garner, her comments, all right, let me read you her comments. she said, quote, t...

I think we all know that police officers can use force when their lives are in danger. but when you look at that videotape it doesn't appear as though any of the officers on that tape were facing any imminent threat, that their lives were in danger. eric garner was not armed. eric garner never made a move to harm any of the police officers, so that's what makes this all the more difficult to understand. >> what some would say and i would like david to respond to this being a former police officer. "a," seeing what you've seen and, again, we have not heard the grand jury testimony, it's not pub...