have the kind of personal ties for their that are going to be required. progress but not enough yet. and finally on immigration, the president, this meeting today, you ve got mike bloomberg, arnold schwarzenegger, people from both parties, chief ramsey from the former police chief here now from philadelphia, all talking about immigration. i talked to luis gutierrez about this yesterday and there was a warning at least from the hispanic caucus. let s watch. you said over the weekend that you were actually considering not supporting the president s re-election effort if he does not re-engage on immigration policy. that s really serious, fighting words. do you mean it? when i look at a ghun ty of people that is undecided, i want to bring them to the decision table in favor of the president. but the president has to act to complete his promise. i don t think it is unusual. and what i said was, you know what, i m undecided. undecided about the re-elect? there isรง strong pressu
confident police treat whites and blacks equally. just 36% of whites say they re not confident. i mean how do we bridge this divide when clearly we re talking about different experiences. how do we make people understand the experiences that are not shared, but reflected by this poll, but still get us to a common place? well i think we need people like chief bratton, like chief timmini, who was my chief when i was mayor, like chief ramsey to talk to people, to talk to the white community and say, look we can have we can protect our police at the same time reduce the amount of violence against unarmed people. and in the long run, that s in a policeman s benefit. how do you think the families of officer liu and officer ramos would have felt about a little less violence applied to that young man? and i m not saying that there
and one other thing, stun guns and train the police to use stun guns. chief ramsey in philadelphia who is president obama s choice to be on the task force. we train our police 25 days even though the state only requires one day of training. so training 25 days as opposed to one. marq claxton, you ve seen the protests by police turning their back on the mayor at a funeral of a policeman. booing today. as one that was in the force as long as you were how do you explain the nypd protests? because the irony is that a lot of them have criticized people like me for protesting, now they re protesting in uniform, some on duty. it s blatantly hypocrite cal. they should be aware that the world is watching. the world is aware there have been many protests towards police performance and many