happy to see the security authorities are out in force here. it makes them feel more comfortable. it makes me feel comfortable too. people with their families, children, parents. mother s, father s, sisters. you ve got grandfathers out here. if there s any opportunity for city other officials to let folks know, they are doing everything they can to make certain families are protected and safe. people are glad to see it. they welcome it. they ve been saying good morning and happy thanksgiving to authorities gladly seeing them out here along the parade route, craig. bill brat on said for the first time his grand children are coming in to see the parade. and he s flying them in on a plane from los angeles. an indication of how safe he s feeling about the security measures put in place all across the country. good to see you, my friend. happy thanksgiving to you.
terms of their legitimate fears and aspirations and considerations of individuals who sacrifice and protect and serve and who have now had to suffer through two individuals paying the ultimate sacrifice. the mayor as a leader of this city has the authority to bring everyone together to lead towards a more productive out come. that s what he needs to do to get through the funerals. thank you so much for sharing. we appreciate it. president obama reached out to new york police commissioner bill brat on and philadelphia police commissioner. he cochairs and expressed his outrage as what he described as senseless murder with no justification. traveling with the president and she joins me now from honolulu. it seems that the president whenever this topic comes up of
effort from the city hall and from the people to really downgrade the efforts of the police and to actually encourage the furor of the people that were protesting against the police actions. as we await the remarks by the marror, given the background, how should the administration and response to the shootings over the weekend? bill brat on has to try to get things calmed down. it s not good for the city that the police department is in a virtual war with city hall. he has to get it calmed down. the mayor will try to do the same. he has to bring calm to his department and that will take time and leadership. i believe he has that and that s what he will have to face. thank you very much. we are seeing the mayor arrive at the podium. he has not started speak. he will momentarily. let s take a quick listen to what the mayor is going to say. the da returns to his seat, i
had the highest respect for him and i work for needs to acknowledge and should acknowledge in the last administration stop and frisk was overused gigantically and the union stood up against it and they did hundreds of stops that looking backwards have created tensions to their credit at the end. they started to curtail that and there issues where the police would be the first to acknowledge that there is issues. commissioner brat on said the murders came as a direct result after the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. here s a chance from one of the demonstrations in new york recently. have these protests across the country become too anti-police and the rhetoric too incendiary? i want to make it clear that
epitomizes the service and we hope to build together bob morguan thal. let s thank him. i want to talk about this organization and some of the people here. i have to first talk about what s going through our hearts right now and what we are all feeling. no one is feeling it more than two families together. commissioner brat on and i just came from visiting the family of officer ram owes aos and the fa officer lew and we ghan with them a few nights in the hospital when they experienced the worst possible moment any family could with no warning. their loved one was gone. their father, their husband,