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Allowed for the governor to get rid of the prosecutor and bring in a special prosecutor and he didn't do that. and a lot of people felt a sense of injustice as a result of the governor not taking the stand and bringing in a special prosecutor to handle this case. because what we saw in the past in 2000, there was a -- thanks for having me. >> i'm sorry that we ran out against the time constraint. thanks for taking the time. we'll be right back. stay with us. >> so keeping an eye throughout the night on the multiple protests going on throughout the and it tastes? it's real milk! come on, would ...

Prosecutor. the governor had a state of emergency, i don't know if you remember that, but he called for a state of emergency. and the state of emergency allowed for the governor to get rid of the prosecutor and bring in a special prosecutor and he didn't do that. and a lot of people felt a sense of injustice as a result of the governor not taking the stand and bringing in a special prosecutor to handle this case. because what we saw in the past in 2000, there was a -- thanks for having me. >> i'm sorry that we ran out against the time constraint. thanks for taking the time. we'll be right back...

Garner's rights under collar of state law. that's fangsy legal language. what it usually means is that the police had some kind of racial animus or they were biased because of his sexual orientation or religion or gender, that's a federal crime. if it is just an ordinary homicide, it is not a federal crime. and the issue there is, again, if it is a federal civil rights claim, there has to be that you wereful intent. it is a much higher bar. >> in this case, the officer who put what appears to be this chokehold on mr. garner before he died, has had a couple of complaints, lawsuits, civil lawsui...

Way police officers were handling that interaction with eric garner. but in this case, in this he think did, the existence of the video showing the killing was not enough to convince the grand jury that there was any need for a trial in this case. when the widow of eric garner was first told of the grand jury's decision today, the decision to not charge known in the death of her husband, her first words in response were, oh, my god, are you serious? she then said you can see in the video that the police officer was dead wrong. esaw garner is her name. she is eric garner's widow. she told the n...

Where there's egregious police misconduct. >> letisha james, a public advocate, the number two position under mayor de blasio. thank you. letisha james joining us from the streets of staten island actually, from the site very near where eric garner was killed in july this year. these protests you're seeing in the streets of new york including some pretty disrummive protests start downing some big traffic news. these protests in response to the grand jury decision that there would be no charges brought against the new york city police officer who effectively killed mr. garner by putting him in ...