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Around the country over the eric garner case, i should tell you, the ones about the eric garner case that are happening tonight, you should know in terms of the history of this story. this is the second round of large protests in this case, these ones that are happening tonight. the first round of large protests around this case came in august, specifically after the new york city medical examiner released its official report on mr. garner's death and that official report on his death called his death a homicide and concluded that what killed eric garner was asphyxiati asphyxiation, compressio...

District attorney's office in staten island to proceed first. earlier today the grand jury failed to return an indictment in this case. now that the investigation has concluded i am here to announce the justice department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation into mr. garner's death. attorney general eric holder speaking just a couple hours ago this evening. last time a new york city police officer was charged with killing someone with a chokehold, it was 20 years ago in the case of anthony baez who was killed in the bronx. in that case the officer whose chokehold killed him...

Factor into a decision by federal prosecutors in this? or would they be looking only at the interaction that happened between the man who was kill and the officer in this one instance? >> well, federal prosecutors like state prosecutors, have an extraordinary amount of discretion. so their main question will be, is there some kind of miscarriage of justice that happened at the state level that means that we need to intervene. in the case that you brought up earlier, anthony baez, the trial judge of the state level after that officer was acquitted said that there had been a miscarriage of justi...

So earlier before the decision was made, we stood with the mayor and the police commissioner to announce this pilate program or pilot of cameras going forward. we recognize that cameras are not the be all and we recognize cameras are not the panacea. they're just one part of a plan for progressive change for the city of new york as it relates to aggressive policing in new york. and i'm calling on the governor of the state of new york, governor cuomo, to point a special prosecutor in the case of egregious police misconduct so there is an independent prosecutor. we all know, prosecutors rely upo...

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