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record of prosecutions against police is reviewed. unquote. the attorney for the family of tamir rice. let's start with you, zoe, and there have been a lot of accusations that tim mcdidn'ty is allowing this case to drag on, and that he is releasing reports that are inherently biased in favor of police. at this point, does the family have any faith in the prosecutor when it comes to seeking justice for their child? >> unfortunately, joy, i think they don't. they began this process very hopeful that there would be justice for tamir who as you noted was a 12-year-old child when he was killed. so this is a family who suffered the greatest loss a family can suffer. and i think that grief is compounded in this case by the way the prosecutor is mishandling the presentation to the grand jury. there's no question that his presentation to the grand jury has been biased in favor of the police in a really shocking way. >> have the two officers testified, to your knowledge, before the grand jury?
falling apart. it started when donald trump said he will negotiate directly with the networks. after that, things started to crumble. kasich said he would not sign on to a joint letter regarding the debates. chris christie said the same thing and carly fiorina jumped ship. a short lived truce. thank you. hillary clinton meeting with the mothers of michael brown and trayvon martin and tamir rice in chicago. topping the agenda, restoring t kpcommunities and law enforceme. the mother of tamir rice said the conversations were productive, but not promises were made. >> we discussed a lot of reforms and ideas of change across the nation and just about how this
more sympathetic as a candidate. she needs to connect with that person. and i think that's genuinely who she is. but she's not a good front-runner and we saw that in 2008. she can't think like a front-runner. >> so, doug, i'm also curious, she tweeted out today support for the familiar legal of tamir rice, the young boy who was shot in ohio, a horrible admission from the police, saying that it was justified. she met with black lives matter. that case has been going on for a long time and she hasn't said anything about it in a long time. how does she prove that it's genuine and not just pandering to a politically popular point of view right now? >> i think it's the right thing to do. she's going to get criticism from the right no matter what she does. what she said to tamir's family, that was the right thing to do. that's a highly sensitive situation. meeting with representatives -- look, that's the right thing for
without biden in the race. tune in for the debate tomorrow night, 8:30 eastern, live on cnn. well, memphis police reeling from the shooting death of another officer, this is the fourth in four years. details are described as, quote, very, very sketchy but a relative of officer terrence aldridge told a local tv station he was on his way to work when he was shot in his car. one suspect is in custody, aldridge leaves behind a fiance who was four months pregnant. backlash over new reports that say a rookie police officer was justified in shooting dead a 12-year-old boy. tamir rice was gunned down last november. outside experts determined the patrolman who shot the boy exercised a, quote, reasonable use of force because tamir was
decades about how there's unequal treatment of african-americans at the hands of law enforcement. people were actually able to see what african-americans were talking about. eric garner's death was on video. and then what happened over the last 365 days is that we've seen video after video after video surface showing african-americans being mistreated or killed at the hands of police. john crawford in the walmart in ohio later in august tamir rice in a park in cleveland. it was only 12 years old. and the list goes on and on. in april there were three such videos that came out, including walter scott in north charleston south carolina being shot in the back by police. and by then the country had seen with its own eyes this mistreatment, and i think that's why the conversation had changed so completely when it comes to
prosecutor, by our design the attorney general of the state of new york eric schneiderman. but that will go a long way towards restoring the trust and the objectivity of the system and it has here in new york. i'm very excited about its potential. >> now, one of the things that i think is important here is that when we perceive it as a conflict of interest because you're dealing with local d.a.s that are elected, who have to use the same police force to do their cases, this takes that out of the scenario and it takes it out of the cases. and i think that next we're going to see the first year since eric garner was the victim of a chokehold case in staten island and we'll be rallying around that. but if you go from eric garner into missouri ferguson following, into cleveland, tamir rice into baltimore, on and on i think this is a national model to at least begin to say let us
cleveland, it sounds like he believes that the department of justice is being pretty heavy-handed in not taking in all the facts about what they're dealing with. does he have any merit at all in that point? >> no not at all, ed. heavy-handed? they came in at the request of the mayor in 2013 and found that the cleveland police department uses excessive force. that is a fact. 137 shots against miss williams and mr. russell. no citizen in this country should have to endure something like that. they were unarmed. they evaded the police no doubt about that but evasion doesn't mean that they deserve to be dead. the shooting of young tamir rice on the playground. that young boy, little boy, did not deserve to be dead. tanisha anderson did not deserve to die. handcuffed victims being hit by police with their weapons. that cannot and should not happen. this is about the community and the police coming together. everybody understands how difficult it is to be a police officer. my son is a police officer, my husband was a police officer. we get it ed.
seattle and cincinnati all have similar agreements the cleveland decree was the result of a department of justice investigation that concluded in december. it found the department to have a pattern of using excessive force. one of the examples cited in that report the 2012 fatal shooting of two unarmed people following a car chase. over the weekend, the only officer charged in that incident was acquitted, triggering mostly peaceful protests. with other investigations into police misconduct outstanding, including the death of 12-year-old tamir rice community leaders say they are worried there could be unrest in the long summer ahead. john and christine. >> erin thanks for that. lebron james looking to make an appearance in the nba finals for the fifth straight year. could he lead the cavses to a sweep. andy has the "bleacher report" next. from the bay area to the big apple. ready, set, switch. to the data strong network.
making reports necessary for just unholstering might be a little bit too much. i think as they discuss this they can find accommodation. >> benjamin you're representing tamir's rice's family the 12-year-old shot and killed by a police officer. have you gotten reaction from the family to what's going on now? this agreement with the justice department to impose some new restrictions on what police in cleveland can do? >> the family the community in cleveland, is looking at how will the spirit of this consent decree really affect reality? and we're going to know that real soon with tamir rice. remember his face they said he was responsible for his own death because he should have been more cautious and they said even though that surveillance video is there, they told him to put his hands up three times and the drop his weapons. which seems to be impossible. and so we want them to tell the truth and be transparent. and hopefully now with this consent decree they will do that in tamir rice's case. >> do you think tamir rice would
helping a city out. >> a city that is still mourning tamir rice the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a cleveland police officer this past november while holding a pellet gun. the acquittal after officer brelo adds only -- only puts more pressure on an already tense relationship between residents and police. brelo was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter for his part in a shooting during which cleveland police officers fired 137 bullets into a car carrying two unarmed suspects killing them. the case became a symbol of the cleveland police department's pattern of excessive force. it led toquir inquiry and resulted in a damning report paints a picture of ade apartment where excessive force and abuse is retune. city officials announced they reached an agreement with the justice department to address some of those abuses. >> i look at this agreement and the reform in it not as a program. this is not for us a program. this is becomes a way in which