death in this case. yeah. let me jump in. you re hitting on this point. none of the conversation among the legal community here has been about a murder charge, which would be, oh, did you set out to murder him? all the conversation about manslaughter or negligent homicide. today at this hour, we have much more information than we had yesterday because as you mentioned, there is a court order that releases a small amount of information that the d.a. requested. and i got to tell you, looking at this legally, it is odd. what we have now from the d.a. is he says he instructed this grand jury on principles of law and then he cites one statute, and it s not a strangulation statute or criminal obstruction of breathing, which we ve reported on, and it s not a manslaughter, and it s not a homicide. the one statute that is listed here in this new order out this afternoon is penal law 35/30. what do you read into this information that the d.a. has put this out and said, he told
come about? what happens is, the grand jury, which at one time historically is a work of liberty against an oppressive government is outdated. it becomes an instrument of manipulation by the prosecutor. usually it winds up with a probable cause indictment. because that s what the prosecutor wants. but not when it s a cop. the cop needs the police hour to hour on all his 98% of his criminal prosecutions. the prosecutors. if the prosecutor goes against the cops, he won t get the cooperation on his cases. so the prosecutor behind closed doors, is able to manipulate the grand jury to not get an indictment. this is it s like if you went to work tomorrow and i said your job today is to sue the pants off the guy that sits next to you. police, grand juries and
grand jury room but knowing what you know i once served on the grand jury. they didn t exclude me. i had an experience on that. what happens is the grand jury, which at one time historically was a bulwark of liberty against an oppressive government is now outdated. what happens is it becomes an instrument of manipulation by the prosecutor. usually it winds up with a probable cause indictment. because that s what the prosecutor wants. but not when it s a cop. right. built-in conflict of interest, the cop needs the police hour to hour on all his 98% of his criminal prosecutions. the prosecutor. if the prosecutor goes against the cop, he won t get the cooperation on his cases. so the prosecutor behind closed doors is able to manipulate the grand jury to not get an indictment. this is it s like if you went to work tomorrow and i said your job today is to sue the pants off the guy that sits in the cubicle next to you, right?
question. pa pantaleo. absolutely. and more than a police officer. we witnessed a murder on tape from people who we witnessed a murder on tape from people who violated protocol for someone they believed was selling cigarettes and the sentence for him was death. they need to be fired immediately so we can have accountability. we have to have a national discussion that was mentioned because it was not nypd specific. we also have to stop sending only police to these communities to solve a multi-pronged problem. and if we don t stop that, we say the people cry out, they want police. they also say we want jobs, we want better housing, we want youth programs. but the only thing we hear is police. and that is a problem in the black and brown communities. city council member jumaane williams. thank you for making it up here tonight. we have melissa mark-viverito, the democratic speaker of the new york city council. speaker mark viverito,your reaction to the verdict today i m sorry, not
positive impact? i m a new yorker, i m from yonkers, new york, you have a much more diverse police force, you have a lot of community policing. so many of the police are embedded in the communities that they are policing. that is also one important step to having a different situation than you may have had in ferguson. at the heart of it, chris is the dialogue between all local leaders, not just relying on local politicians to propose a bill, pass a bill and think all the problems are going to go away. i want to ask you about something that dr. ben carson. who is considered a potential candidate in 2016 said yesterday about ferguson, now this was before the grand jury decision came out here in staten island. this is what he said in terms of not setting up the conversation against the police, let me play this for you. i challenge people all the time. imagine living for 24 hours with no police. people would be walking into your house saying hey, i think i like that television, i m