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And this is new york tonight. and this is washington, d.c. tonight. people in d.c. yelling tonight "if i can't breathe, you can't breathe." this is chicago tonight. and the protests tonight are about the death of eric garner in new york and the hope for justice in his case is that the federal government might step in where the local authorities would not. maybe the feds will. and maybe that will help. but as long as that is the solution, that's the only thing to hope for. as long as that is the only solution, that the feds will somehow swoop in and fix everything, that is never going to be eno...

Kelly show, i do. but i'm proving it to you. let me keep talking. so what we do know when we look at the data and statistics very often the narrative about criminality is actually not the case and it actually has to do with targeting black people. and i think what we're going to find is the data comes in around indictments, when the data comes in -- which is largely in the hands of the prosecutor -- >> i'm waiting to hear your data. all i hear is narrative. i got to go because i'm out of time. thank you for being here. >> thank you for talking to me. >> up next, former new york police commissi...

Congressman hakeem jeffries. congressman, you represent parts of brooklyn. you have confidence in this new grand jury investigation? >> i do think that the brooklyn district attorney has a history during his short time in office as a local prosecutor but also in his prior time as a federal prosecutor, being willing to allow the law and the facts to lead him to a conclusion that is most appropriate. that's why i'm pleased that he's agreed to pursue bringing the case to the grand jury and hopeful that we will see an aggressive presentation of information and possibly an indictment so that we can...

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 affairs bureau at the nypd to report what had happened. the internal affairs bureau at the n...

Relates to these police officers. it's an issue of being in the blue uniform and whether there's appropriate training, whether there's a real relationship between the police and the community. in communities of color, we embrace the fact that there are police officers who are there to protect and serve. but we want there to be a balance between effective law enforcement on the one hand and a healthy respect for our civil rights and civil liberties on the other. that's as american as apple pie. >> you've suggested, congressman, that broader reform is needed in all of these cases, how they're pr...