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For over a week, staten island district attorney dan donovan has declined to file to do the same to staten island. a judge today issuing a very cursory summary of the findings there. we know there were 50 witnesses, 22 of whom were civilians, arrests, cops, and doctors. jurors saw 60 exhibits including four videos and that grand jury sat for nine weeks. we did, however, get a little glimpse into the proceedings from one of the most key witnesses in the whole affair, that's ramsey orton. that is the man who filmed the now infamous video of eric garner yelping "i can't breathe, i can't breathe,"...
>> from my knowledge of the case there's absolutely no element of racism here and there was no intent by the police officer to cause any type of deadly harm or physical harm at all to the decedent here to mr. garner. >> i think this would have happened to a white guy doing the same thing. i don't think it had to do with skin color. i think it had to do with poor judgments made by the group of police officers. >> joining me now, msnbc political analyst michael eric dyson. michael of course got into it with former mayor rudy giuliani on "meet the press" on precisely this issue. what is your reac...
Evens after he was down. the symmetry between this case and the reaction of human beings to somebody lying on the ground in egs treatment duress is none. no reaction at all. tamir rice left on the grown dying before anyone offered him any aid. eric garner lying there dying and people are videotaping it saying this guy can't breathe and this sort of nonchalant reaction of the weem around prince william hp no tomato to offer aid. and then mike brown's bodily lie on the ground like waste for four hours. when people use the term black lives matter, that's what they're talking about. the fact that ...
Racism in this case. there's no indication this was -- if this man were a white man resisting arrest at that same size the same thing would happen. >> from my knowledge of the case there's absolutely no element of racism here and there was no intent by the police officer to cause any type of deadly harm or physical harm at all to the decedent here to mr. garner. >> i think this would have happened to a white guy doing the same thing. i don't think it had to do with skin color. i think it had to do with poor judgments made by the group of police officers. >> joining me now, msnbc political anal...