hold on. don t touch me. don t touch me. whoa. damn. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. i can t breathe. new york medical examiner would later rule garner s death homicide caused by another person determining the cause of death was compression of neck, chokehold, comprefgs chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police. the grand jury was convened in september by staten island district attorney daniel donovan to decide whether there was probable cause to indict the officer seen on that tape ignoring garner s cries that he couldn t breathe.
a standoff between protesters and police on the west side highway. the response of the decision of the grand jury not to indict the police officer who put a choke hold or arm around the neck of eric garner as he said i can t breathe 11 times before dying. joining me now is senior editor for the atlantic. what was your reaction today when you heard the news? i was i would like to say i was surprised, i was not surprised. i was not shocked at all. we expect our grand juries to operate outside of the ways that affect ordinary citizens. laws, grand juries, our hallowed institutions they are what the people make them to be ultimately. they don t exist on some other plane immune from other forces like american racism. so i like to say i was shocked and surprised. i was not, regrettably.
given to the grand jury. ferguson grand jury was done in a way never done before as far as i know. where the prosecutor no direction. just dumped stuff in and without direction, i don t know how it was done here in the i want to see the evidence. we agree. they can release it. it s difficult, but they can release it. guys thank you for being with us, coming up next a question you re going to want to answer, next, stay with us. ow how hard it can be. .to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled. .copd maintenance treatment. .that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have
these guys go out and put their lives on the line for these communities every single day. do you think it s true that police officers don t cover for each other, they don t ever spin things or say false things for each other? i think it s fun to say that and to perpetuate this distrust of police, but let s not forget that both in the garner case and the brown case, that if either of them had complied with the police, that these might have had different outcomes. not that the outcomes are not tragic and that other than a police officer dying, the worst outcome that could come from these interactions. but let s not lay all the blame at law enforcement mr. claxton, you re talking about compliance in the case of mr. garner. mr. claxton is a former new york city police detective. what s your response to that? i think what mr. roorda is doing is what a lot of people make the mistake of doing and presupposing things as facts when they haven t been established by facts neither in the
do you think it s true that police officers don t cover for each other, they don t ever spin things or say false things for each other? i think it s fun to say that and to perpetuate this distrust of police, but let s forget that both in the garner case and the brown case, that if either of them had complied with the police, that these might have had different outcomes. not that the outcomes are not tragic and that other than a police officer dying, the worst outcome that could come from these interactions. but let s not lay all the blame at law enforcement mr. claxton, you re talking about compliance in the case of mr. garner. mr. claxton is a former new york city police detective. what s your response to that? i think what mr. roorda is doing is what a lot of people make the mistake of doing and presupposing things as facts when they haven t been established by facts neither in the grand jury or in reality. to go further in specifically