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Fireworks, gasoline, and two unused smoke canisters. police say james has addresses in wisconsin and philadelphia, but it is not clear what, if any, connection he has to new york. joining us now is the mayor of new york city, eric adams. he, of course, previously served as brooklyn borough president and spent time as a transit officer with the nypd. mr. mayor, good to have you with us this morning. what is the latest on the search for this man? i was updated this morning by my law enforcement officials. there is no new information. as you know, a national search is for him, a person of interest, and we are going to continue to close the loop around him and bring him in. continue the investigation into this horrific act against innocent new yorkers. do you know of any connection this morning, mr. mayor, to new york city? we know he has addresses in wisconsin and pennsylvania, but nothing directly, except for some of these videos he posted ....
Explored. i m confident in the leadership of mayor eric adams who, himself, was a transit officer during the 80s and 90s, when crime was really out of control in the city of new york. we have come a long way since then. still have a ways to go. we have a seen a retrenchment over the last few years given the rise of the pandemic and shootings and homicides and other instances of crime and violence on the uptick. months ago, mayor adams indicated he was going to lean into this issue of making the subways safer. i don t think we can be in any better hands and we should explore the partnerships at the federal level and the state level to do that. thank you very much for your time. thank you. let s bring in cnn law enforcement analyst. also cnn national security ....
The jury is kept in the dark about some of these plans, particularly sentencing. here the prosecution is going for the maximum allowed. these are the proper charges. just because they are probably put forth doesn t mean there s a proper basis conviction. officers were convicted in cases recently. there was a transit officer in california where the jury rejected the most serious charges but did find him guilty on the lesser offense and gave him two years. but that case showed how the jurors struggled with this. and all of these cases, the officers clearly that raises the public debate to either of these laws should be narrowed and clarified. that you need something far ....
it s really unbelievable. it s not just been expensive, because they had to turn these courthouses into fortresses, but i am sure people in minnesota are just done with all of this constant worry about whether there will be riots, what will the verdict be. you know, this is a population that s been through a lot, putting aside the fact that they went through these traumatic cases where people died, and it raised real issues for many about racial justice, police tactics. so the people of minnesota obviously could use a break. they have been ground zero now for a long time in these cases. jacqui: jonathan, do any other cases come to mind that is similar to the trial we are watching? were the outcomes in those cases that might inform what we are about to see? speak of the one that s most interesting is there was a transit officer in california ....