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Good but. i want you to be able to talk about the many things we do without this dark stain on our career. these are peoples lives they've committed to this. 30 and 40-year veterans saying i don't want to have my city pay out $6 million for an officer that we knew shouldn't have been on a job in the first place because they have anger control issues, baurz they want to go into a barrel roll at a kid's birthday party. that's insane. i work with too many good chiefs and too many good law enforcement officers for us to decide this is a local issue as if we're too dumb to see a national pattern. >...

The investigation. we work in police departments all over the country. it's not uncommon for law enforcement to reach out to us. today i heard a number of disturbing elements. first, there are those in the baton rouge police department and those recently retired from who believe this case was held until after the election with the hopes of a more favorable outcome for the officer? >> after the presidential election? >> yes. they felt the prosecutors were told not to. perhaps most disturbingly, folks in the department want it to be known that the director of training in the baton rouge police d...

Rice and is not prosecuted. also in cleveland, the michael brelo case. this is a police officer acquitted of manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of melissa williams and timothy russell after a police chase. officer mistook the car back firing for gunshots. officer brelo fired, jumped onto the hood, in total police officers fired over 137 rounds into that car killing two people. neither of them were convicted of a crime. all of whom were able to return to work. your thoughts, jamil? >> neither convicted of the crime but certainly got the death sentence. what you saw in my hometown was 'em mattic of...

Spoke out about there possibly being some racial bias and there possibly being an issue with discrimination in america between police officers and people of color and people believe he said those things in part to attract black voters during the whole "what in the hell do you have to lose" pitch. we have seen since entering the white house, the white house has referred to these things as local matters and displayed no interest in addressing things on a national level. we still haven't heard the president respond to this case or stephon clark. >> one of the things we have seen happening is blan...

The justification that he made. walter madison is an attorney in cleveland. he happens to represent the tamir rice family. he's with us now here in the atlanta studio. joey jackson in new york. our cnn legal analyst. and avery friedman also in cleveland joining us now and momentarily will also be met by cnn law enforcement animal cyst cedric ander. marcia fudge said moments ago there is a benefit of the doubt extended to police officers customarily in so many police related shootings but the same does not go for the victims who are mostly black in communities -- in black communities where circ...