retired law enforcement in the the bureau. the federal government is the option we have to provide a more impartial or at least an outside authority to provide a check on that. the poor people of the ferguson grand jury had to deal with wildly contradictory eyewitnesss and extremely complicateded forensics. every american carries a video camera in their pocket, and it s having interesting effects on law enforcement and criminal justice. as you look like at those protesters in new york carrying coffins as they walk down the streets of new york city. next up. a defiant russian president with harsh words for america.
solve the systemic racism problem. we have a systemic racism problem. there are two things that happened in that grand jury. number one, the prosecutor presented a case where he was advocating his authority. number two, the grand jurors see police officers as almost like super humans. they can t imagine police officers can commit crimes. thank you both. all right. you re looking at live footage of some of the protests here in new york city as people are congregating. there are folks on the streets to see the tree lighting, which is happening just outside these windows and folks are protesting the decision not to indictment eric garner. i m going to talk to the man who blasted the st. louis rams players who held up their hands. .
it won t be exactly a standing start because the federal government has been watching what the state grand jury has been doing. interestingly here, the prosecutor today in new york said he was going to release a sort of summary of what happened before the grand jury. but not the kind of detail that came out in ferguson of who said what. i don t know why that is. my guess would be that i would be very surprised that the federal government didn t ask the state not to release everything. because i don t think the federal prosecutors will want their potential witnesses if this does go to a grand jury, a federal grand jury. they don t want their potential witnesses knowing what everybody else has already said. right. and we are just learning that summary was, in fact, just relea released, nbc s pete williams. thank you very much. you bet. to the tiny town of utahville, south carolina.
civilians are not. that s part of their job. the latitude therefore for them to use force is far greater. maybe the grand jury heard a lot of testimony we don t have access to and we would have come to the same decision. the process is not fair. it is not fair, and it frustrates justice because you don t see the process. it s secret. in new york, it can t even be made public as it was done in ferguson. so what you now have to do is recognize every state should have a special prosecutor for police misconduct. we should go to preliminary hearings, integrate the police departments so they reflect the racial makeup of the city or the town. and you need some real training with undoing the stereotypes. without that, putting a camera on a cop. we had the video here and look at the result. there s another piece to this. the camera situation doesn t
doesn t mean that we shouldn t be inspired and motivated to continue the pressure on the ground and galvanize around the injustice that exists. that s what we have to do and that s what the family has asked us to do as well is to continue to struggle, obviously, in a peaceful way, but we need to be mobilized and continue to express and channel that frustration in a way that we will change the system, and that s where we need to end up. new york city council speaker melissa mark-viverito. the new york city police department banned choke holds. how could the grand jury not indict the officer? female announcer: get on board for better sleep!