CNN Bill de Blasio CNN Town Hall August 25, 2019 23:11:00
So the first thing to say is eric garner should not have died, and then the next thing to say is there can never be another eric garner in this city or any place else in this country. [ applause ] and it can be stopped. these tragedies were common and they still are. we've all seen those horrible cell phone videos time and time again. it doesn't have to be that way. what we learned immediately after the tragedy of eric garner was we had to do pretty much everything differently. we retrained our entire police force. 36,000 men and women were retrained in de-escalation. a situation literally lik...