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Sign, to demonstrate to the american public that we're taking this problem seriously is something that should be done. >> that picture we just showed of somebody lying down on the street, you see that, that's in staten island. that's the place where eric garner died from that chokehold. this is his daughter there lying down. it's a very emotional setting as people can understand. you see that, you appreciate what's going on. i want you to stand by, cornell, because we have a lot more to discuss. benjamin crump, the attorney for the family is walking in. we'll take a quick commercial break and ...

Local prosecutor. >> you believe your son's local civil rights were violated? >> yes, they were. yes, they definitely were. if eric garner was a white man in suffolk county doing the same thing he was doing, even if he would have been caught selling cigarettes that day, they would have given him a summons and he wouldn't have lost his life that day. i believe that 100%. >> it's interesting, because you talk to, again, these polls you see white people don't view it that way by and large. >> because it's not happening to them. >> so they don't quite understand. they think it's a small group of a...

Their lives at the hands to the police than their white counterparts, that's not just a race problem, it's a human problem. we can't say to any mother or father that you could acquiesce to your child's life literally being snatched from you. >> you just heard evan perez, our justice reporter, report the news that an appellate court in new york is considering whether or not all the testimony that was before that grand jury in the staten island case involving the death of eric garner should be made public. you're an attorney. you understand the law. this would be pretty extraordinary if they wer...

After ferguson, the release of the grand jury information in that case, so the question becomes, in the case of new york, is whether this will relieve some of the pressure the prosecutors have been feeling whether or not this case was handled fairly. >> evan perez, thank you very much. tonight, we're watching -- we're waiting for these protests to see if they get under way. thousands of people are gathering here in the nation's capital for a rally tomorrow called the justice for all march, taking part in the rally, the mothers of four african-american men were symbols of the protest movement. ...

Because you were there inside that room. >> it was extremely powerful, wolf, to hear those mothers all trying to comfort one another, speaking to the bigger issues. this could be your child. if we don't do something about this, it's going to keep happening again. tamir wright's mother, the mother of the 12-year-old kid in cleveland, ohio, who was killed. you had sybrina fulton, trayvon's mother, trying to comfort her. youed a eric garner's mother, trying to comfort her, all in the same time still dealing with their struggle for justice for their children and families. >> all these mothers tryi...