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Improving that relationship. i'm kim hutchinson reporting. >> joey jackson talked about this incident on friday and says the plain-clothed officer's tactics appeared to be excessive. >> we have to know and understand police certainly have a difficult job. they want to go home at the end of the day, jim, we get that. however, there's a certain type of protocol associated with making a stop. now, going back to whether the stop is proper. if somebody identifies him and said, i'm a thousand percent sure it's that guy, certain police have a proper and legal basis to go up and to do what is called a...

If somebody identified him and says i am 1,000% sure it's that gift. certainly the police have a proper and legal basis to go off. and to do what is called a pat frisk. and they do that for their safety. >> that's different from tackling him. no questions asked. >> exactly. the legitimacy of the stop, okay. it's the tactics that is associated with the stop that causes pause. there is a use of force continuum. that continuum would suggest any force used has to be proportionate to any threat that is posed. >> he's not running away there. >> it doesn't appear. >> it's troubling and problematic in...

Could be suggestive of criminality and that could give you basis to approach and talk to and perhaps pat frisk but not to arrest. when they did pat frisk and found that knife, should they have arrested based upon the knife. if the defense gets that knife thrown out, suppressed not coming into court, in light of the fact that you know what? it was a legal knife. it was illegal and the police had a business basis, it could change the case. >> let's look into the investigation into the baltimore city police department. they're going to review a pattern of practice review. what does that mean? >> ...