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>> chris, i've been shot at and several other officers i know have as well. chief belmar is expressing legitimate concerns about the officers' safety as he should. it's serious when police officers get shot. it is also serious when you have a criminal justice system at its foundation as institutional racism and a lack of accountability for officers who is abuse their power in the communities they serve. those things are all important. and as lizz made the point earlier, we can't lose sight of either of them. too many times when a situation like this comes up and you have an individual or indiv...

Night and have faced before in this situation. take a listen. >> what if we're in a situation where it's 25 or 50 yards away? and it's a threat right there in front of you that can be engaged exempt except we're around a situation where 40 50 70 people are around. we really need to understand the dangers of this. and i'm not blaming anybody other than the individuals that took a shot at my officers and hit them. but i am telling you that these are situations that it's very difficult for us to navigate through. >> i mean as a former police officer yourself, can you imagine a situation -- worse ...

It's serious when police officers get shot. it is also serious when you have a criminal justice system at its foundation as institutional racism and a lack of accountability for officer who is abuse their power in the communities they serve. those things are all important. and as lizz made the point earlier, we can't lose sight of either of them. too many times when a situation like this comes up and you have an individual or individuals outside of a group creating situation where they risked an officer's life we lose focus on the bigger picture. >> we saw in new york in the wake of the eric g...

Officers' safety as he should. it's serious when police officers get shot. it is also serious when you have a criminal justice system at its foundation as institutional racism and a lack of accountability for officer who is abuse their power in the communities they serve. those things are all important. and as lizz made the point earlier, we can't lose sight of either of them. too many times when a situation like this comes up and you have an individual or individuals outside of a group creating situation where they risked an officer's life, we lose focus on the bigger picture. >> we saw in ne...

Provocative. >> the accounts i've seen from both reported and what i was told a moment ago is it seems to have come from that hill. i know exactly where that hill is there. this seems to me like a situation that cannot be solved. it just seems completely impacted. like, how do you think about the way out particularly in the weight of this violence last night? >> the way out is the same way that it has always been. we go through it. we continue to tell the correct narratives about what's going on. we continue to expose the wrong and we continue to be -- if we're all attempting to do as the atto...