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Probable cause was met in that case? >> i grant you, mark, that the garner case is far more controversial in terms of the evidence and why there was no indictment than ferguson. that's a no-brainer. but the racial component has yet to be established. i am wanting you to establish it for me. all i hear so far is past examples, rodney king, that's a different case. it was a long time ago. i'm citing other examples. >> i've cited five cases to you. >> i've cited three to you. >> okay. so is this a game of numbers? >> you tell me. my audience wants to hear the evidence. they're wondering why we're...

Then he was taken to a police station house in brooklyn where officers violently raped him with a broken-off broom handle. he needed three rounds of surgery and two months of hospitalization to recover from his injuries. he was so grievously injured that the police did realize they had to take him to a nearby hospital. but they lied to the hospital about how it was that he became so hurt. a nurse who was involved in his care at the hospital was so horrified by the extent and the nature of his injuries, and the police clearly lying about how he got those injuries, that she called the internal a...

We saw last night in midtown manhattan. rachel? >> nbc news correspondent anne thompson out live right now on 14th street in downtown manhattan. anne, we'll be checking back in with you. i want to bring now to the conversation connie schultz, joining us from cleveland tonight. connie's a pulitzer prize-winning syndicated columnist. connie, it's really nice to see you again. thanks for being here. >> thanks for asking me, rachel. >> connie, while i'm talking to you, we've got you in the main part of the screen and then we've got a split screen showing some of these protests going on around the ...

>> a number of ways. number one, when you have a case that involves a police officer, we need to bring in a special prosecutor right away. that is exactly what the naacp asked in the case in ferguson. we said that mr. mcculloch is too close to these issues. he works with these police departments, he comes from a family of police officers. we need to bring in a special prosecutor to make sure the grand jury process works the way it's intended. >> you don't think the grand jury process in staten island in this particular case of eric garner worked the way it was intended? >> not at all. as a mat...

Possibly can be. the whole notion of putting 100,000 police officers on the street is something that this federal government has tried to -- has tried to foster. >> there have been a number of high-profile cases involving charges of police misconduct. in los angeles the beating of rodney king by four white police officers captured on videotape. in pittsburgh the case of johnny gammage, a black businessman who died of suffocation after being stopped by five white suburban police officers. in new york city the case of abner louima, a haitian immigrant who says he was beaten and brutalized by pol...