Page 43 - Doesnt Show News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Let's have more black cops. that worked. today we do have a better educated, more diverse police force in general. yet, we still have these problems. so, i think that one of the things the commission and the sort of the thinking in the '60s didn't get to is the role policies play. certainly the law and order and the war on drugs and things like that introduced a whole new level of required police vigilance and aggression. >> absolutely. it is extraordinary to hear that language before the war on drugs is authored. it started by richard nixon and president reagan takes it in another direction. ...

Jury found no probable cause to have a trial over those issues. when you talk to folks in some of these communities, the concern is not that there isn't a police perspective on this, but that the police aren't even forced to go into open court and have a day in court the way a lot of other people are. it sort of gets short-circuited very early. do you think that's a fair concern about the way some of these grand jury proceedings have come down or not? >> i do. i have said before, i would commend the district attorney in st. louis for releasing all the materials from the grand jury, as you know...

Prosecutor, when you have police-involved shootings or police-involved deaths. it just -- when you listen to those facts, as i draw them out, this does not make sense to suggest that probable cause doesn't exist, that this video doesn't show, wolf, excessive force, an overreaction by the police department for is a minor infraction, is absurd. it's ludicrous. everyone should be concerned about this, outraged, sickened. just sickened. >> they are. >> well, let me bring don lemon into this conversation. so far, don, and it's been a few hours, the reaction on the streets of staten island in manhat...

Is, what would he have needed to do differently? a lot of people talk about what the officers needed to do differently, as you believe it's a chokehold, as some law enforcement have said, that in itself is a violation, but what would you want him to say differently? >> he says something like, it ends today. there's active resistance and passive resistance. it is true, it's hard to draw a line. sometimes the police misread that someone is actually cooperative. so, that's the difficulty. what is the magic way you signal to the police that you're acquiescing? but i don't think it's unreasonable t...

Largely because of police actions, which stem also from generations of frustration around housing, jobs, educational problems. you know, these protests are good. this is the american way. but this is not enough. we need real policy change. we need real change within our police departments and the way that we approach black and brown communities. caleb, the idea this will lead to a significant change, that this will be the moment, i don't know why we would see that. >> well, it may not be the moment but it may well be a catalyst for body cameras in most, if not all, major departments. and that,...