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Secrecy of that grand injury process. and they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferguson case would be released in the garner case. instead what they got today was this minimal trickle of information that really shared none of the relevant witness testimony, particularly from those police officers that they wanted to hear. >> the people there, mainly african-american? are they a diverse crowd? can you tell? >> it's a very diverse crowd. and it also represents a lot of people, to be honest, protesting quite a number of different things. obviously what ...

The country. one gentleman said he was a friend of eric garner's and spoke with him two weeks ago. and he was confused about why a man selling cigarettes would be stopped at all and it would escalate to this point. he said there are many people shooting, murdering committing acts of violence across the city. his concern was, if there's not justice in a case that is so clear in the video that began with someone, you know, supposedly selling cigarettes in the street, then what can black people in particular seek justice for? >> msnbc's tremaine lee where a decision could come down in the next fe...

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Citizens are not intimidated by the outside. but that grand jury system does seem to be the element that is under attack, even governor cuomo saying he's going to start to address changes to the grand jury system. that is a very serious issue. >> look, you don't have to disagree with a conclusions of the grand jury to find what happened with eric garner extremely troubling. you don't have to say officer pantaleo had to face trial to say his behavior raises questions about the way police go about some of their work. this is a very different case from the ferguson case. there was no question tha...

Investigations into the death of michael brown in ferguson and trayvon martin in stanford are impossible to bring such charges on. criminal rights charges require proof of intent. even the death of eric garner in new york represents a problem for the prosecution, despite the video evidence. >> it's a very tough case. mere negligence isn't enough. a mere mistake by the officer isn't enough. >> reporter: in both the ferguson and new york cases, critics say attorney general eric holder's role is about more than justice. >> this is a part of this pattern of eric holder politicizing the department ...