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Locker rooms and precinct houses around the city were yesterday when that came out? >> well, i think that it probably makes -- some guys may have looked at it as saying you know what, we didn't expect this. some may have thought they did. but i think we need to emphasize that many of those officers are going to hit patrol, they're going to do their job and they're going to do it effectively, but those who aren't doing it effectively would need to ensure that it's corrected and have the training that's needed. >> there's a few ways people think about what we've seen here. one of them is talking...

And really can effectively prosecute these cases. but the problem that he refers to is real, and i think to some degree it's intractable. i think the problem is much worse, much harder to solve in excessive force cases thanes in other forms of corruption, as you know, police officers are also prosecuted for taking bribes or dealing drugs or discourting defendants. in those cases it's very easy to see that a crime has been committed. the difficulty is the police officer is doing his or her job have which in many cases is prelicely to use force. they may have gone too far. those are very, very d...

We've got to get back to that. by the way, body cameras are not enough. there's some kind of way we've got to police and the people they are supposed to protect and serve have got to come together. >> congressman elijah cummings of baltimore, thank you very much. >> thank you. you heard the congressman talk about body cameras. the president of course announced a pilot program to purchase body cameras. and there's a lot of people in the wake of the eric garner decision who i have seen saying wait a second, if we had this on tape, what difference will body cameras make? i'm going to talk to on...

You see this guy lying there for six minutes. it's not the way you treat a citizen at the edge of death. he's not breathing apparently. he's not moving. what did they think his condition was? and why is he still cuffed? >> that's the $64,000 question we all want to know the answer to. there's two key takeaways from this whole entire incident if you boil it down to its basics. this may surprise you. in chronological order, the first takeaway is mr. garner would still be alive if he had simply put his hands behind his back as he was initially requested to. he would also still likely be alive if ...

But unlike ferguson, they have been mainly peaceful here in new york. anyone trying to get around the city tonight or last night will have a very difficult time. chris? >> thanks for that reporting, stephanie gosk. let's go to msnbc's amanda. she's following the protesters to the brooklyn bridge. what are you seeing there? >> hi, chris. hundreds prove testers here gathered trying to cross the brooklyn bridge. there are police barricades up but they are able to inch their way. there's a short walkway to come through. but they have many streets here blocked off. there's a heightened police prese...