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>> reporter: the arrest of six baltimore police officers in freddie gray's death has renewed calls for justice for eric garner the 43-year-old father who died after being placed in an apparent choke hold by an nypd officer last year. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: garner repeated the phrase 11 times during his arrest. we learned the 25-year-old gray indicated to police officers that he too, could not breathe. garner's wife spoke about the similarities. >> the same way the man was screaming for medical attention and they refused to get it or delayed getting it was the same way that my husband...

A nosedive says one passenger. >> engines full throttle, the air frame shaking. and we descended really quickly. >> reporter: dropping 27,000 feet in less than eight minutes. >> down to 4,000 skywest 305 tango. >> reporter: but it wasn't just one passenger as the airline first said. >> i asked for some oxygen for her. we got her on oxygen. soon as she got on the oxygen she was alert. >> reporter: passenger and nurse mary cunningham helps a fellow passenger. then -- >> they called me right back because the person sitting right behind her passed out. >> reporter: moments later the nurse herself ...

Panta layio, all other officers, ems workers, they failed me. when i see them, i have asthma, and i'm scared. i'm scared that one day i will say, i can't breathe, and nobody won't help me. >> earlier in the day, we saw another dramatic display in washington. dozens of black congressional staff members staged a walk-out on the steps of the capitol, and put their hands up to protest police killings in america. this issue isn't going away. in fact, the calls for justice are getting louder. that's why my civil rights organization, the national action network, along with other civil rights groups, ...

And benjamin lawton, eric garner's cousin. i want to talk about that video you were referring to, erica, the second video that shows the ems workers not really doing much of anything while your father lay on the ground. we called to find out what happened to those emts. we were told all of them have returned to work, two are -- >> huh? are you kidding me? >> i knew that. i've been following the blogs and looking online. and, yes, i knew they went back -- that's why i was asking, what happened to them? why did you get your job back? >> yeah. >> and two of them are restricted to, quote, nondirec...

Of our ems workers, who basically do have the lives of individuals in their hands. and what is the training that is happening here? the fact that absolutely nothing was being done for eric garner as you see in that image, all the time that is before us is disturbing. they are supposed to be administering some level of care. even unions that represent the ems workers were saying the same thing, there should have been some level of service being administered to him at that time. so this is disturbing. we're going to definitely monitor it and look into it further, understand what this review proc...