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Cigarette taxes. congressman king on garner's obesity, rudy giuliani blamed it on high crime in black neighborhoods, police blamed it on garner's resisting it. thousands of protesters blame it on race. why did eric garner die? i'm joined by cnn political commentator l.z. granderson. welcome, l.z. >> good morning, carol. >> is garner's death really about race? i ask you that, too, in don lemon's interview with eric garner's daughter she doesn't think it was about race. >> well, i have not talked to her obviously, but my sense is what she's saying is the response that you're seeing to her father...

The jury didn't give us a just decision, from things that i heard, witnesses who went before the grand jury, i heard that they never even looked up at them, or they might have been in there five minutes and never even got eye contact with the grand jury. i thought that was, that's very disrespectful. >> eric garner leaves behind six children. stay with us later this hour, homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be in boston to meet with federal, state and local law enforcement officials to discuss federal and state partnership policing. we know eric garner was killed by a white police o...

This situation. >> chris cuomo, many thanks. i appreciate it. in the meantime, as fiery protests rage on, eric garner's mother and daughter are speaking out. last night, erica garner sat down with cnn's anderson cooper, and said she is encouraged that protests have been peaceful. she also said that the controversy surrounding her father's death is not a racial issue, but a national crisis. she was asked whether she could forgive the police officer who killed her father. >> this is not a black and whitish u. this is a national crisis. i believe this is a crisis. for white people to come out a...