scott family is going through now. none better than my best guest the widow of eric garner. the man heard saying i can t breathe over and over as he was placed in the choke hold last july. his wife joins me along with the lawyer handling eric garner s case. welcome to both of you. thank you so much. let me begin with i was watching you watch those mothers both the strong sense of forgiveness soon after losing a son. then the mother of the officer who did this. first, what do you make of this forgiveness? have you forgiven officers in staten island? i don t think i ll ever have that much love or that much god in my heart. it was a heartless and godless thing that took my husband off this earth.
cnn has reached out multiple times to get a comment from the d.a. s office jefferson county district attorney s office but so far, no response. my question to you being apparently all that had to be done to set ray free was test the gun. and this would have been over. it still took this ballistic test took 12 years to free this man you are sitting next to. tell me why. you know this case is a really powerful demonstration of the problem which is that we have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. it is shameful. i have never had a case where the evidence of innocence is so clear and so immediate and so accessible and not been able to get the state to do the simple thing they have to do to access that evidence. we begged them for years to just simply do the test and they would rather risk executing an innocent person than risk the perception that somehow they re not tough on crime or that they re not they re being too
i don t think there s anything that the officer could say to me or express to me. he s not sorry. he s not. if he was sorry, the time to be sorry would be when my husband was asking for air to breathe. to let the ent do what they needed to do to try to revive him or bring him back. they stood there and watched him die. i don t think i could ever forgive him. there are a number of similarities totally different situations but similarities what happened with your husband and what happened in south carolina. they begin with small infractions. selling cigarettes a broken brake light. there are those that say in both situations you know had eric garner not resisted had walter scott not jumped out of the car, this never would have happened. first of all, for the record he wasn t resisting.
access to. this was essentially part in that policy is. we d have to know more about his background. he has prior complaints. we know he is still working, still getting a pay check. nine months later, and they re not doing anything. i haven t heard anything about what s going to be the end result of my case with my husband. then they re asking me about this case in south carolina. i can t feel anything but what i feel for my husband. until someone gives me some type of justice or something, i can t feel for anybody else, you know. i do feel for the families of course because we all took a loss but right now my main focus is try to get justice for eric garner. you understand why people are asking you a little about south carolina. one of the similarities being there was video.
perspective perspective? how would you respond to that? we don t know how often this happens not just because deception is difficult to catch. we have no information about police shootings. we could have much better information and data and we don t. that s disgraceful this day and age. we really should. thank you so much for your candor. i really appreciate it. thank you for having me. coming up next the widow of eric garner the man that died after police put him in the choke hold. she ll join me to tell me about the role cameras played in that case and what officers told her before that video surfaced. tornados ripped through this country. see what happened as storm chasers got dangerously close. i ll speak live to the man