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To not indict the new york city police officer involved in the choking death of 43-year-old eric garner this summer. look at this picture. this is eric garner's mother and his widow watching president obama make those remarks today. as they're watching, you see who is there with them. they're standing alongside reverend al sharpton. reverend al has been at the central of this case and the response to it for months, ever since eric garner's death in july. he has held rallies here in new york city as the legal process has been unfolding. earlier this month he also spoke at eric garner's funeral....

Police cases. we have no confidence in local, state prosecutions. the attorney general talked with mrs. garner and me today. they talked about an independent investigation. but let's be clear. let's be clear that while we ask for the federal government to move, we are moving that way. on saturday, a week from this saturday, december 13th, we are having a national march in washington, d.c. where we are calling for the justice department to take this case and the case in ferguson and the case in cleveland. it is time for a national march to deal with a national crisis.

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 new york daily news right after she heard about the announcement today...

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 lawsuits brought against him just over the past couple years from three different people allegeding that he made essentially racially charged decisions to treat them improperly as a police officer. would that sort of evidence factor into a decision by federal prosecutors in this? or would they be looking on...

Experience every day. and that feeling that there are two separate worlds. so, beyond just the eric garner case, the mike brown case and a number of other cases. there is kind of a high time people say for a conversation about these daily experiences that often end up with kind of fatal encounters with the police, as we've seen in recent incidents. so, again, still spillover from yesterday and as eric garner's mother said, this is just the beginning of a very long movement. >> thank you so much, trymaine lee. in staten island after so many weeks and months in ferguson. now up to the departme...