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I've read in the media quoting police officials and those who train police saying that this was not a chokehold. it might have been carotid restriction but it was not a chokehold. what was eric garner doing? he was selling cigarettes, loose cigarettes. the police in new york, because they're so eager for tax collection, what is being done here with regard to taxes and the state's desire to collect them no matter what, how many cops were descended on that situation? for cigarettes. how many people smoking marijuana did the cops pass by and ignore on the way to eric garner? you've got $13 a cart...

Truth for the advancement of their own political agenda. and it's just not productive. and the president taking sides in this in a way that further divides the country, i find, reprehensible and very unfortunate, too. >> let's talk, though -- you talk about ferguson and, frankly, i agree with you. i think that's a case where there was plenty of reasonable doubt about what officer wilson did. but let's talk about the eric garner case, which a lot of people think is different. in fact, at the beginning you said that you were troubled by what happened in the eric garner case, the heavyset black m...

Who testified who were with him and were holding eric garner down, i understand they all testified. but they received um mimmunity any prosecution. is that a problem? >> it's absolutely a problem and it's further evidence that the grand jury system is broken and that this particular prosecutor didn't seem to be interested in aggressively arriving at the truth. there should have been an indictment. we should have a trial. it should be public for all the world to see. at this point, if these officers have been given absolute immunity which appears to be the case, then they can't even be prosecut...

About someone who was a suspect in a minor petty crime. >> and that day presumably, what we've been told by several people, he wasn't even trying to sell cigarettes that day although he did have criminal charges selling illegal cigarettes over the past few years. >> absolutely. but nothing that involved crime or violence, nothing serious, petty things and whatnot. not the kind of crimes that you use deadly force to bring somebody to justice. >> is the justice system in the united states fair? >> no, it's not. as a matter of fact, if we look at the evidence, we see so many problems in how the p...

Released. that differs from the situation down in ferguson, missouri. we're hopeful we can get some understanding as to what took place, what questions were asked? was officer pantaleo aggressively cross-examined for his reasoning behind the use of the chokehold and his failure to relent during any of the moments when eric garner said he couldn't breathe? these are just some of the questions -- we also need to know, wolf, did this prosecutor actually request that officer pantaleo be charged? with manslaughter, with criminally negligent homicide, with reckless endangerment of human life? there'...