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Under the law, the intent matters. whether he knew to say this wasn't my intent or not, he said he did not intend to strangle or do anything that was a strangle. i think the 2010 said the strangulation law, what has to be proven is the intent to breathing. >> there's another statute that applies, the criminally negative manslaughter and wasn't instructed on that. for whatever reason, decided not to. they know more than we do. i think what happened in this case is escalated. the use of force escalated way too quickly under these circumstances. they had six officers there. they had control over ...

Been. this type of response. as far as the training that officers will get. that's something that the police commissioner is going to put in place. you know, keep in mind, don, as -- as tom could, would probably agree. these cops get an enormous amount of training. sensitivity training. verbal judo training. things cops don't get anywhere else in the country. so this will be added training to what they already get. >> mel, how do you -- how do you train or, untrain -- some one, something that you may have learned from your mom or dad or something that you, that you, understand where i am going...

>> we have specialized training for the cops. you know, in, in -- in, in riot control. they have demonstrations you. can see that in the way the cops are responding. >> cornell, you know, as, we have been sort of comparing -- what has happened, what we saw play out in ferguson. what we saw play out here. it is a tale of two cities. beauty of it. brook was talking about it. white people. black, being arrested. beauty of it. a lot of times. a political hack as you know. i will go to the politics of it. a lot of times we look to put people. sort of tribalize, and put people in their corners and m...

Happened here. same way you can't in ferguson. there are reasons why they unfolded in ferguson. same way in staten island. these are going to have to be reviewed. training is going to have to be reviewed. policy, procedure will have to be review. you just can't ignore what happened here. and just, pretend to move on like nothing happened. >> can i ask you something. what, what do police officers, you see batons. we are seeing different. not seeing the type of -- combat gear or, to the extremes that we saw in ferguson. and then, beyond that, talk to me about this training. this three day traini...

>> it's the responsibility of the new york city police department. how they're handling -- it would have been handled in the same way as the new mayor de blasio. sort of let the protesters blow off steam and space, give them some room and don't try to confront directly. >> i think that's right. we see restraint from the officers. we see, i think, the officers not ratcheting things up. we are not seeing the sort of militarization we saw in ferguson. i think that's your constitutional right to peacefully protesting, but for me, i think we have heard from many of sort of the organizers and the pa...