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Avery, wish you were here but we know you have family obligations. >> a little imbalanced right now. >> you can stay in cleveland. that's okay. >> we'll make up for it. >> you're here in spirit and via satellite so we're grateful for that. ave avery, the police chief said he wanted the video released in the name of transparency. that video is six months old, so what's your reaction to how this is being handle so far? does this assist in being as transparent as possible? >> it's a video that should have been released a long time ago. the city of baltimore is under a federal consent decree being...

I mean, the best that's going to come out of this, fredricka, is you'll be able to show a rogue cop, whether the city will be civilly responsible for that remains to be seen. i have to tell you, one thing for sure, under an 1871 federal civil rights act, that individual cop, if he did this, is personally on the line for both compensatory and community -- and punitive damages, but believe me, the loss in trust to the community i think is irreparable. i don't know how you patch that one up. >> that's the problem, fred. so many law enforcement officers do an incredible job every day of the week. ...

It exists everywhere. and what we have to do is root it out. there are some videos that clearly show that an officer's actions were inappropriate and in some cases even criminal. but if every cop was a rogue cop or abusing their authority, believe me, you'd have more than a few videos to show every night. so the majority of police officers do the job properly. but we can't afford to have any not do the job properly. one shooting that is wrong, that's inappropriate, that's unjustified or could have been handled another way is one too many. >> the hope is police body cameras will capture a compl...

Fueled by a way of violent police encounters caught on video and gone viral for the world to see. >> get your [ bleep ] hands up or i'm going to shoot you. i will shoot you. >> ow! >> with successful prosecutions of officers few and far between, public outrage has only grown, demanding answers from a force that's meant to protect and serve. >> not a week goes by when we don't hear about officer-involved shootings and police brutality of some sort. to what do you attribute that? because many fingers are pointing to the race issue. >> well, race in america is an issue. and i mean, you can't egg ...

Rapid response for these moments of the police violence. and they need to be able to investigate themselves. >> to that end. one question asked is where is sandra bland's cell phone. the police still have that in this her possession. that ostensibly has the video she was taking as the officer approached her vehicle. and then withdrew her from it. and then the people who booked sandra bland, what information they were given by the arresting officer. how confident are you that we will get either pieces of that puzzle in the coming days. >> eventually we'll get the evidence but whether it will ha...