change their tactics and their method implying the police are the ones who are always wrong. in the garner case without going into the details. the fact is it was more of a quarter million misdemeanor arrests last year alone. this is the one case they are talking about where there was a case where there was an african-american chief acting in response of african-american store owners in the neighborhood to take eric garner away and it was under the supervision of an african-american female sergeant. whatever was right or wrong for staten island it was wrong for the mayor and the president to imply this involved endemic racism in the police department and society. there is enough racism on all side in the world including our country but let s not demon eye the police. bill: one of the sons of the officers killed saturday writes today i had to say bye to my far it. he was there for me every day of
and it s important that the mayor and all the officials in new york city start defending the police, stop the overheated rhetoric attacking the police which for the last year and a half under bill deblasio as a candidate then as a their created a chasm between the police and the african-american community. two years ago the nypd had a high favorability rating in the african-american community yet mayor deblasio created this tension in staten island. yes he made some general condemnations of violence. but protesters were allowed to close down bridges and take over streets. when cops were are assaulted by protesters the mayor called an alleged assault.
get together as a country and support our police. tell us what you d like to see happen. yeah, maria, first of all, thank you for having me on, and this is an absolute tragedy what occurred in new york, and it s really time for our national leaders, the president, it s time for the mayor of new york and really for many in the media to stop the cop bashing, to stop this antipolice rhetoric. i mean, for the last four months, we ve basically heard nothing other than the cops are guilty, presumed cops are guilty, then the grand jury says they re not going to be indicted. people demonstrate, march in the streets, and it s so slanted. for instance, the case in staten island. it s supposed to be racial. as tragic as that was, the fact is, it was an african american chief of the police department who sent in the police officers at the request of minority business owners. the top-ranking police officer at the scene was an african american female sergeant. and yet, that didn t stop al sharpton
black lives being taken without impunity. let your cameras go down on the street and what you re going to see is a mixture of tapestry in america protesting in connection with this case. this protest, the outcry you see is not just black people. the victims may be african-american i m not saying it is. it s the message that this is a white versus black thing. if you disagree with it, you re entitled to disagree with it. but let s look at the movement. i m not offering my personal opinion, sir. i m asking for you to establish where race falls into this matter. but i think we re going around and around thank you. have a great day. thanks for being here. protest marches are getting larger and louder at this hour. we re going to track these, plus president obama today weighed in on this matter again on both the case in ferguson and the case in new york, staten island. see why his latest remarks are raising a lot of questions. plus, new york city mayor bill de blasio today
sergeant there. and in the confusion of the moment they would have known he was having that type of heart attack or that type of disturbance you would not expect every cop to know that. it s all a matter of minutes we re talking about. we re talking about a person resisting arrest. as i said, 99 of 100 times would have gone fine. i m not saying he deserved to die. he didn t. but to somehow say maybe it s negligence but to say it s manslaughter the ems person didn t give emergency care quickly enough. certainly they didn t do it on person. again, an african-american sergeant the whole time. the nypd unlike ferguson p.d., nypd is minority majority. the majority of the nypd are people of color. and yet these folks are out there marching, you know, basically accusing them of being racist. the pressure remains based on what i got to go, congressman. good to see you tonight. we re getting live pictures from chicago where protesters have shut down the famous lake shore drive. we have seen