From the Missouri Attorney general about that. Amazing. I think it was your bringing the attention to it is what we needed to get that. Well done. Glad to hear it. We continue our Missouri Attorney general. Oh, amazing. Amazing. I think it was your bringing the attention is what we needed to get it done. It was your reporting. Im glad to hear it. Good. We continue our breaking News Coverage tonight with streets across new york city lined with protesters, call for change in justice after a grand jury decides Video Evidence is not enough to bring charges against the Police Officer who killed eric garner. There will be no indictment in the apparent chokehold death of Staten Island man eric garner. What kind of nonsense is that . Are they looking at the same video the rest of the world is looking at . The its a painful day for so many new yorkers. Hes heard repeatedly telling officers i cant breathe, i cant breathe. The death was ruled a homicide by the coroners officer. Its totally incomprehensible. There ought to be an indictment its very hard to look at that and say no probable cause. Here we have video, what else does it take . Weve got a problem that america has to confront. If ferguson was not a wakeup call this case better be. The Justice Department will proceed with a federal civil rights situation. This is an issue weve been dealing with for too long and its time for us to make more progress than eweve made. Tonight, protests against the decision. Crowds of protesters gathering. Some of them without a block of the Rockefeller Christmas tree. At Grand Central station, a socalled diein. Police are embraced for even more. I urge all of those inclined to demonstrate tonight and the days ahead to remain peaceful. Its a cry to recognize and understood that black lives matter. They said black lives matter. It should be selfevident. We still have hope, and we still have fight to fight to get justice for my husband. Heres what happened to eric garner on july 17. Stop, stop. Get your hands, buddy. Put your hands behind your back. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Today, four months later, a grand jury made up of 23 people from Staten Island decided not to indict the officer who used an outlawed chokehold resulting in the death of eric garner. After tuesdays decision, Daniel Pantaleo released this statement here is eric garners wife tonight responding to officer pantaleos condolences. Officer pantaleo has offered you his condolences. Will you find it in your heart to accept it . Would you accept it . Hell, no. Officer pantaleo has offered you his condolences. Will you find it in your heart to accept it . Would you accept it . Hell, no. The time for remorse would have been when my husband was yelling to breathe. That would have been the time for him to show some type of remorse or some type of care for another human beings life. When he was screaming 11 times that he cant breathe. So theres nothing that him or his prayers or anything else would make me feel any different. No, i dont accept his apology. No, i could care less about his condolences. Hes still working, hes still getting a paycheck, hes still feeding his kids. And my husband is six feet under and im looking far way to feed my kids now. Today after getting the news about the grand jurys decision, president obama said this i want everybody to know here, as well as everybody who may be viewing my remarks here today, we are not going to let up until we see a strengthening of the trust and a strengthening of the accountability that exists between our communities and our Law Enforcement. And i say that as somebody who believes that Law Enforcement has an credibly difficult job, that every man or woman in uniform are putting their lives at risk to protect us, that they have the right to come home just like we do from our jobs. That theres real crime out there that theyve got to tackle day in and day out. But that theyre only going to be able to do their job effectively if everybody has confidence in the system. And right now, unfortunately, we are seeing too many instances where people just do not have evidence that folks are being treated fairly. Were going live now to nbcs Anne Thompson whos in midtown manhattan at Grand Central station where some protesters have been gathering since early this evening. Anne, whats the situation there . Theres the shot, i dont know if anne has my audio. Lawrence, hi. Lawrence, i am sorry, hi. We are here in Grand Central station where the protesters have come. They went up some escalators and all of a sudden they came flying down. It was almost a stampede. The Police Chased them up the staircase here in Grand Central station, but things seem to have calmed down. Again, we have heard, as we have all night, cries for justice for eric garner. People chanting that they cant breathe i cant breathe just like eric garner said on that tape before he died. People, tempers here, this is the most testy situation ive seen all night. These protesters have gone all throughout midtown. And for the most part theyve been peaceful and very respectful. But here, the combination of three or four hours of protesting, of commuters trying to get home, and police, tempers have begun to run a little short here, lawrence. Back to you. Anne thompson, thank you very much for joining us. Were joined now for an exclusive interview by zachery carter, the chief legal officer in new york city. Zachery carter, you were also once the United States attorney for the easton district of new york. That is the jurisdiction that has control now of the federal investigation of this case. I want to show what the attorney general said today about what is next for the federal investigation. We may not have now that the local investigation has concluded, im here to announce that the Justice Department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation into mr. Garners death. Weve always seen the video of mr. Garners arrest. His death, of course, was a tragedy. All lives must be valued. All lives. Mr. Garners death is one of several recent incidents across our great country that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between Law Enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. This is not a new york issue, nor a ferguson issue alone. Now as it happens, the u. S. Attorney for the easton district, your old job, is loretta lynch, who the president has chosen to now follow eric holder as attorney general. Shes very busy every day preparing for the most difficult confirmation hearing shes been through. And now she has this. Take us back to, if if you were in that position at your desk back there in the easton district and this happens today and the attorney general surely would have called, you would have had a conversation about it. Internally, what is your next move . Well, first of all, in a situation like this, you would have already been monitoring the state eric holder said they were doing that. Correct. And so now its an issue of doing two things. Bun, reviewing all the information that was developed by the state investigation. And then determining what additional investigative steps you would need to take independently to complete the record and to help you make a decision whether or not the federal criminal civil rights laws apply in this particular case. Theres also an internal Affairs Investigation going on within the establishment. I want to listen to something that commissioner bradden, h officers boss, promised after the investigation. It is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, needs ton thoroughly investigated and reviewed, and questions answered and thats what were committed to doing. So thats an investigation that could result in the disciplining of the officer, the dismissal of the officer, separate and apart from the federal investigation. Thats correct. And how much cooperation is there in the federal investigation with the internal investigation going on in the Police Department . Well, those things will probably be kept separate in order to make sure that the federal investigation is not tainted by any statements that the subject officer might be compelled to make as a part of the disciplinary process, of the internal investigation process by the new york city Police Department. As a per looking at that video of what happened on Staten Island, what do you see . Well, certainly, i see what everyone else obviously saw and has reacted to. Theres what the commissioner at the very outset characterized as a chokehold being applied during the course of this attempt to subdue mr. Garner and bring him under arrest. The medical examiner said thats the cause of death. That is characterized as the cause of death. Ultimately its it is for the it would be for the grand jury to make a judgment about whether or not given the length of the hold and given the other circumstances that they would have an opportunity to consider including his cries for distress with respect to not being able to breathe. Whether or not a person in the subject officers position should have known that in continuing to apply that hold that he was likely to endanger the life with everything that we see there, including the length of it, as you mentioned, which is very important, the length eof the hold, it continues after there are several other officers engaged in subduing eric garner. There are several other hold points on him at other parts of his body. And yet, that chokehold hangs on. And what i dont understand watching that is how a grand jury can watch that chokehold, not be released when theres all sorts of other constraints by other officers on eric garner, and not say thats it, that crosses the line, that is too much force. Well, obviously, its very difficult for the grand jury to discern what they based their decision on. What we know is that we they saw the same videotape we saw and they probably saw it repeatedly. And they had it repeatedly shown and freeze framed and all the kinds of things that jurors do when theyre considering a piece of Video Evidence. We also knee according to the subject officers lawyer, at least as reported in the times that he testified before the grand jury for a couple of hours which probably included some narrative portion, but also some questioning by the grand jurors themselves. What he could have said that would have impacted so profoundly on their decision, we dont know at this stage. And the officer just had to win a majority of the grand jury. 23 grand jurors. He just needs to have 12 on his side basically to not get that indictment. What were you expecting out of the federal investigation in the east degrees on district now with the fbi on it and the u. S. Attorney on it. What are the next things we should expect publicly . The next thing, theres not going to be much happening publicly at all. If they decide that the evidence is sufficient to present a case to the grand jury, that will obviously be a secret proceeding, as this was. And at the end of that proceeding, there will be an announcement as to whether or not there are charges being and what are the elements what statutes would you be investigating this under . And what are the elements of the crime described in those statutes, federal statutes that would have to be met . Well, basically, what you would have to prove is that the officer acted with intent to deprive eric garner of a protected civil right. In this case, his right to be free from injury except with due process of law. And because theres that element of intent, it actually is a fairly difficult barrier. Zachery carter, thank you very much for joining me tonight. Appreciate it. Coming up, city of new york is planning to put body cameras on officers in three precincts starting friday. 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Lets take out the private iphone video someone made. Assume there were body cameras there. We wouldnt have seen much. They would have been right up to eric garners bodies and the other officers bodies and they wouldnt have picked up much. A lot of this goes to the mindset of the officer. And the officer has broad leeway. Apparently in this case, the officer went into the grand jury, said there was no malice, said it was a mistake, it was a bungled situation, he didnt mean this ending to take place. And whatever you think about that, i presented these cases in grand juries. What do you say from a prosecutorial standpoint. I see a prohibited chokehold the nypd has outlawed. He has the his arm set deep into his neck and he cant breathe. The medical examiner ruled that. I dont see this being a great bar to probable cause. I think the officer has many defenses. He has great lure lawyers. And the Police Officers deserve aggressive defenses as well. But probable cause is a low bar. And mr. Garners death is sort of left, unless the Justice Department will pick it up. And of course, administrative duties as you pointed out so well, the commissioner could officer the officer, too. So the commissioner could fire him, the city could be sued civilly. And the department of justice could see it as excessive force. They can do that quickly. Complete and thorough doesnt have to be slow and prodding. You gene, youre an nypv veteran yourself. On the job eight years and has to settle at least one civil case against him. 30,000 cost to the taxpayer. Another civil case pending against him. And we say this over and over again. Must Police Officers never find themselves in this kind of trouble. And the number one reason they dont is not because they dont encounter situations like this, its because they bring better and cooler jerusalem to them. The Police Profession has to heal itself. Thats absolutely truth. Whether they have to push to do it or they voluntarily do it. The legal conversation is a necessary conversation. But its a minimal standard. We need the police on their own volition, a nudge or a push, whatever it takes, to decide that human life, preserving peoples lives and respecting people has to be foremost. And this can be done. Its been done with deadly force, as you well know, through policies that are enforced. And thats the challenge here, boast in ferguson and in new york, creating a culture where you do not overrely on this very broad power that you have that becomes exceptionally rare for you to have to point to this and say i need to use force and i need this protection. That should not happen except in the most unusual circumstances. Jim cavanaugh, i want to hear from you and eugene tonight as cops, as people who have been there been out on the street. And the sensation that some try to suggest, police are under siege and its a whofully dangerous job. You have to approach someone who is selling suggest rhetts without the proper taxation. What is the kind of attitude you bring to that thats what hes suspected of doing, evading the sales tax in new york city and new york state. That should be something thats very easily and conversational, really. We need to look at some of these to answer your question, when we would get in a car chase, we were in the car chase no matter what. We would chase them for over seven states because we believed we would have to catch him. Nobody we would let get away. And that was the business of the police for years. And eugene was around then and i was as well. But weve understood the disasters that come from chasing someone for a Traffic Violation wrecks and kills a family. Sergeants will call it into the chase unless were after some violent felon. We need to think like that, too, on the streed. If officer wilson in ferguson had just taken a step back after the confrontation at the vehicle. As you and i have talked about. And Michael Brown ran away. Just after that, he had already called for backup, which is 90 seconds away. Where is Michael Brown going to go . Hes going to the hospital. Hes been shot. Youre going to catch him. Just take a step back. In mr. Garners case as well. When he puts his hands like this, okay, okay, when they get on his back. Take a step back. Take a step back. In the cleveland case with the child, if you drive your car in like that, if you have an escaped felon with a gun who wants to kill the cops, youre dead, hes going to shoot you as soon as you drive up. What kind of tactic is that. Take a step back and be smart we can police better than were doing. The public has no idea its part of police train, which is retreat. Retreating when theres nothing at stake. Eric garner is a good example of that, Michael Brown is a good example of that. Whats the worst that can happen . Eric garner will continue to stand here a little bit longer. Thats the worst that can happen as more an more cops surround him. Give him breathing room a horrible expression to use in this situation. But theres a mythology like its. Chase down and get them at all costs. Talk about the word retreat . Is. There are tons of Police Officers horrified by this. Tons of them. My heros in the new york Police Department some of them are still there, some still retired. Invariably were able to solve things peacefully. The question is, how do we replicate that . How do we make that the model . Forget the law. We need to figure out how to especiallily kate that. There are people who arent armed that man to deal with die lent confrontations nonviolently. Yen you say forget the law, lets have the right laws governing this, but the real change must come in police culture. As they do on firearms in new york city. They managed to rein into a policy. A policy stricter than the law, thats right. I could go on and on with you guys, thank you very much for dealing with me tonight. Appreciate it. What the Missouri Attorney general told me should be done today in the aftermath of mistakes made by prosecutors in the grand jury room investigating the killing of Michael Brown. Playing. singing and five golden rings ha, i see what you did. singing four calling birds. Three french hens. the guys starts to fizzle out two. Turtle. Doves. I really went for it there ya you did. You really, really did now get 3 gigs of data on one line for 65 a month. Switch to at t, buy a new smartphone and get 150 credit per line. Into one youll never forget. Earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. Expedia plus rewards. Came out of the cupboard. Literally. Can this mess be conquered by a little bit of dawn ultra . Yes. One bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. Dawn, its amazing what a drop can do. Here we go, here we go, here we go. 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In response to my question, to the attorney general, he said among the problems that ferguson has brought to light is the need to update missouris use of deadly force statute. This statute is inconsistent with the United States supreme Courts Holding in tennessee versus garner. Consequently, it is important this statute is amended by the Missouri Legislature to incorporate the garner decision and to avoid confusion. Within the criminal Justice System. As i have reported on this program, there should be no confusion in the criminal Justice System because the United StatesSupreme Court clarified the proper and legal and constitutional use of deadly force by police in tennessee v garner 29 years ago. I reported last week the assistant District Attorney provided the grand jury with the wrong law on police use of deadly force. The missouri law that was rendered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court decision in 1985. The grand jury transcript shows that she handed all of the grand jurors a copy of the old unconstitutional missouri law and said it is the law on what force is permissible and when in making an arrest by a Police Officer. But that wasnt true. That version of the law said it was legal for Darren Wilson to shoot and kill Michael Brown simply because Michael Brown at some point ran away from him. At the very end of the grand jury proceedings, she corrected the record by heading the grand jurors a current copy of the law that included changes made to that law by the United StatesSupreme Court in 1985 when the court made it illegal and unconstitutional to shoot fleeing suspects simply because they were fleeing. When she handed him that law, she did not explain to them what the difference was between the two versions of the law that she gave the grand jury weeks apart. For more detail on this, including all the relevant quotes from the grand jury transcript, you can go to our website, lastword. Msnbc. Com to see all the reports done on this matter that provoked tuzs response from the Missouri Attorney general. We also got a response from the District Attorneys office that presented evidence of the grand jury. We asked the District Attorney the following questions, how many times has Kathy Alizadeh submitted the wrong law . How many times at the District Attorneys office in general, all of them, submitted the wrong law to a grand jury as its Legal Framework for its investigation. And is the Michael Brown case the first time, the very first time the District Attorneys office submitted the wrong law to a grand jury as the Legal Framework for its investigation. As first we got no response from the District Attorneys office. We asked for a response again yesterday and today the District Attorney said, quote, not at this time. Joining me now is susan mcgraw, a law professor at st. Louis university. And so, theres the District Attorney saying at this time they cannot answer how many times theyve given the wrong instructions, the wrong legal instructions to a grand jury. We have no idea how many times theyve done that. Its troubling. You know, this is the only time that that process has been recorded also. So this is the only time we would have any indication what goes on in these secret grand jury hearings. Yeah, exactly. And ive been talking to lawyers in many states about this. Theyre all shocked to a person that this could possibly happen because its such a simple law they all say in their states they cant conceive of it happening because case law, which is what the United StatesSupreme Court element is, because case law is always included with the statutes. Legislatures dont go and rewrite their laws every time a Supreme Court rules something unconstitutional, but what does happen is that case law gets physically attached in many cases to the statute when its used in courtrooms in any legal proceeding. Yeah, theres no way, if there was a jury trial that a judge who would monitor the proceedings and ensure that the law given to the jurors is correct would have allowed this mistake to happen. And its really just a reminder that were dependent upon the good judgment and good will of a prosecutor in a grand jury. Because theres no judge there to ensure that the correct law is given or the correct procedure is followed. Right before Darren Wilsons testimony, which is a very favorable law to frame his testimony. At the very end she hands them the correction and never explains to them what the difference is between those two documents. Thats very problematic. I teach law school and we spend a whole year teaching law students who have College Education how to correctly real the laws contained in the statutes or jury instructions. These jurors clearly as reflected in their questions were very confused about what the law was, what the law was that they should follow, what law takes precedence. One of them asked questions about United States supreme law over missouri law. So clearly, they were very confused. And were really trying to get more information, but it was not forth coming. Whats your reaction to the attorney generals response today saying that its time to actually change the statute, incorporate the case law right into the statute . I think thats absolutely correct. It should have been done before this happened. Susan mcgraw, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thank you. Coming up, the state of justice in america. Get to the terminal across town. Are all the green lights you . No. Its called grid iq. 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In Staten Island today after a grand jury decided not to in Staten Island today after a grand jury decided not to bring charge against the nypd officer who is shown on video choking eric garner to death, new york city mayor bill de blasio said this. Weve heard in so many places people of all backgrounds utter the same basic phrase. Theyve said black lives matter. And they said it because it had to be said. Its a phrase that should never have to be said. It should be selfevident. But our history, sadly, requires us to stay that black lives matter. Because as i said the other day, were not just dealing with a problem in 2014, were not dealing with years of racism leading up to it or decades of racism. We are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day. That is how profound the crisis is. Joining me now is msnbc legal analyst faith jenkins, mark thompson, host of siriuss xm radio and the cofounder of the brotherhood sister soul. Faith, you know, ive never bill de blasio has never been a stirring speaker to me. Ive never been able to follow more than a couple of sentences. Today, i think, was his finest hour, most important hour as a public speaker in this city at the moment right after this decision was announced. And that line black lives matter, and the need to say it i thought was very powerful and important. Right. And as a leader of this city, i think he set the right tone. It was a very different tone than what we saw in ferguson in the aftermath of the mike brown shooting. He came out and he set the right tone. And he gave examples of how he could relate to the pain and the struggle that continues in black america when it comes to Law Enforcement and black victims not being treated as victims. And the shooters and the killers of black people not being held accountable to the same level in other cases. So he came out and he spoke about that. And i think that in this case today, you know, we realize how far we have not come since rodney king, since abner louima and the work that still needs to be done. When this case happened, when this tape first came out, i thought thank goodness someone recorded this. Had it not been recorded, no one would believe this actually happened the way the eyewitnesses said it happened. But then, you have the grand jury, you see the tape, and it comes back, no indictment, even with the recording. Weve had all these conversations about body cameras and how they are needed for transparency and accountability. And here, you have a tape, and its all on tape. I dont see how a person can look at that tape and not say that man did not deserve to die at the hand of those Police Officers. What faith said, no one would believe it without the tape. People would believe it. People who live in communities where this kind of thing has happened and has happened for decades, but no one outside of those communities. And tonight on fox news, there are commentators saying yes, there should have been an indictment. And the only reason they are getting to that spot is because of that tape. Yeah. And its incredible for fox to be saying that. And youre right, for those of us who had this experience, thats why believe the story of Michael Brown. Because even without the video, we know what happens in these situations. This is a very painful part of our history, being relived again. Law enforcement has once again given a his torable appetite for strange fruit. Faith mentioned the body cams. That lets us know right today, this is a video, so that proves that body cams alone will not be a panacea. Theres much more that needs to be done. And not only on fox news, when we look at tonight, so many people came out and demonstrated, even during the Christmas Tree lighting down stairs, the two competing events, people chanting whites, i saw, chanting black lives matter. I cant breathe standing up for eric garner. And of course, the mayors son is an africanamerican. This can happen to any one of us. My son is 12 and im mourn mourning the death of tamir rice in cleveland. This can happen to any one of us. And so this is so, so important that so many people get behind this and understand that this is a National Problem and something has to be done. While people were demonstrating tonight in front of the Christmas Tree, err i garner is really the christmas story itself. An innocent man from an opressed community questioning authority and wrongfully executed. And to this line, black lives matter, what that line is saying is, its to people who strongly believe and have very strong historical reasons to believe, and actual factbased reason to believe this is not the way people die on Staten Island. Its been the home of some of the most dangerous criminals of history new york, big time mafioso guys living out there. They never found themselves in this kind of trouble with police. And so and getting across that racial divide where theres a part of this country that doesnt understand what it feels like to see this happen to a black man, knowing it has never happened to a white man in that same place. Yeah. I think there are two central issues here. One is historical, one is extremely current. It reminds me of the signs people wore in the Civil Rights Movement that said i am a man. You had to establish your humanity. The inhumanity of how this man was treated, saying he could not breathe and no one coming to his aid. When you think about the historical reality of race in america, the leg city of how black men have been treated in this country and black women have been treated for centuries, he says this stops now. And so the historical narrative is one that many struggle to come to terms with, but this is an indictment op broken windows policing. A policy of this Current Administration and of the Police Commissioner bratton. You will attack quality of life offenses because they lead to substantial crime. This man was approached because they thought he was selling untaxed cigarettes. Hes dead because they thought he was selling untaxed cigarettes. That is an approach of policing that is being indicted today. If we did not get an indictment in the killing of eric garner, the indictment should be on broken policy called broken windows policing. Stay with us. This is titanfall, the first multiplayer game built and run on microsoft azure. 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One cap of downy created such irresistibly soft sheets, she wanted to stay in bed forever. Downy. Surround yourself with three times the softening. As i said when i met with folks both from ferguson and Law Enforcement and clergy and civil rights activists, i said this is an, shoe that weve been dealing with too long and its time for us to make more progress than weve made. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the lou law, thats a problem. And its my job as president to help solve it. I want to go to a moment that its all, the Police Commissioner is doing their own investigation. That could result in dismissal, some kind of discipline. And i want to listen to what mor yor said today about bill bratton, the new York City Police commissioner. My faith in commissioner bratton is based on the actions hes taken over decades and also based on the clarity of his message to all of us. He gathered his top commanders a few weeks ago. It was well reported. He said very publicly, the department will act aggressively to ensure that any officer who is not meant to be in this work no longer is. Those who are brutal and bankrupt and racist. This was our Police Commissioner making clear his standard, that people who sadly fit those descriptions would not be members of the nypd. Bill bratton grew up in my neighborhood in boston. He was a boston cop when i broke a book that brought down the command staff including the commissioner lost his job over it, exposing bad use of deadly force by that department. Hes not someone who defepds every one of these things reflexively. Theres a lot up to him right now. Right theres a lot op power in his hands. He understands hopefully he has to address the issue of the power that Law Enforcement has to use and how to use that power. We are seating repeated adduces of that power. And where are the checks . Where is the accountability . Are we asking police to investigate themselves and have the prosecutors investigate them and prosecute those cases . We need special prosecutors to come in whenever theres a police shooting. We need another system of checks and balances in place. Mark, would would you say to bill brat donn tonight. The Police Unions defend every one of these cases. The most egregious conduct by Police Officers, Police Unions always surround the officer and protect them in whatever way they can. But heres a moment for a Police Commissioner. It is a moment. I think he has no choice but to live up to his word. He said he was the mayor said he would act aggressively. When im not mistaken, when this first happened, bril bratton came out immediately and said that that chokehold was out of order, thats illegal, youre not supposed to do that. Said this was a tragedy. I think he really has no choice but to remain consistent to that. Quick last word. I think this issue rests with the mayor at the end of the day. Many of us are very, very angry tonight and we have no reason to have faith in the nypds response to this issue. The mayor controls the nypd. The mayor at the end of the day needs to take control of this issue and respond in a way thats human and just and make those of us so upset tonight of all different backgrounds feel faith in this city again. Thank you very much for joining me tonight. Thank you. Our live coverage continues now with chris hayes. Here we are again. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Here we are again. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Only the new york city, the Media Capital is in the storm. Late today a grand jury sitting on Staten Island chose not to prosecute a new york Police Officer in the strangling death of an africanamerican. It comes on the heels of a starkly similar judgment in st. Louis. Political reaction was immediate. Heres kentucky senator rand paul speaking to me a bit over an hour ago