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In my time been thrown off about half of the time. you always have to reinforce success. it always takes more resources to hold on than it does to take it in the first place. and that may be the case in this instance too, because we have to remember that these are shia militias and this is very much a sunni neighborhood. >> this is, in fact, the heart of the sunni province there, anbar province. so we have to also remember that this sort of sectarian divide is what got iraq into the mess in the first place. so how concerned are you about the prospects of a massacre and can this cycle of violen...

The community, so the department of justice is obviously aware of that. they looked at the cleveland police department. this was one of the cases that they looked at when they came to their conclusion that this department needed some help needed more training of its police officers. there were some issues to address and now, of course, be there's been an acquittal in this case. they have to take this into consideration in their decisions to move forward with -- and work with the police department in cleveland. >> all right. faith jenkins thank you for weighing in. let all of our viewers know w...

Welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." breaking news out of cleveland where a judge found police officer michael brelo not guilty on all charges including voluntary manslaughter. this in connection with the 2012 fatal shootings of timothy russell and malissa williams both who were unarmed. the incident known as the 137 shots case because of the number of bullets fired by the 13 police officers at the end of a high-speed chase. officer brelo himself fired the most shots, 49 total, but his last 15 shots resulted in the voluntary manslaughter charges. prosecutors say those shots were fired fr...

Car and that the shots prior to that they argued his defense attorneys argued could be justified use of force as the officer thought he was being fired upon when it was shows from other police. this whole thing was a total disaster poorly supervised outrageous police conduct with the chase. this officer on the hood of the car firing into these two folks who did nothing wrong. just cleveland police has to be revamped. the chief saying they're doing that. it's an outrageous case in my view. >> you say you think officer brelo should be fired. we should make a point to say the chief of police says...

Citizens receive. this tragic experience has already forced a culture change within the division of police and a needed reexamination of the use of deadly force. the end result will be less secrecy, additional transparency and accountability. citizens and police themselves will be the safer for it. this was a challenging case no doubt, but i would notes hesitate to do it again if the facts and law demand it. i was proud of our effort to seek justice in this case and we will continue to seek justice on behalf of the people. i am -- i do not want to answer questions that are sought to inflame th...