de blasio are trying to implement where if the police officer did that, he would be arrested. they are tying the hands of the police officers. they do not want us to be out there making these arrests. you might have seen directly behind mullins in that interview maybe you didn t notice but the internet certainly did a mug with the qanon logo on it, the conspiracy that the world is run by child abusing elites, mostly democrats. mullins says it wasn t his office, even though he s done multiple other interview from the location. mullins was under internal investigation by the nypd after he tweeted in 2021 mayor de blasio, the amembers of the netflixed with are declaring war on you. mullins tweeted out the arrest report for mayor de blasio s daughter. he s facing internal nypd trial over that, it is basically a no no. other internal charges for profane tweets about city officials. he called the quote health
it s not something that i could make over a few hours. i have been thinking about this since the day i was sworn in as police commissioner. reporter: an internal nypd investigation found grave misconduct by the officer, that report which factored in the commissioner s commission, characterized his use of force as reckless and a gross deviation from the standard of conduct. a federal investigation and grand jury proceedings began against him in 2014. no charges were filed in either case. tonight, garner s family is praising the nypd s decision but says this isn t the end. i thank you for doing the right thing. i truly and sincerely thank you for firing the officer. regardless or however you came up to your decision. you finally made a decision that should have been made five years ago. we will be going for the congressional hearings. we will be trying to reopen the case. we will be going after the rest of the officers involved,
this was justice today. rihanna, it s important to know, the united states department of justice did nothing. the local district attorney did nothing. the first time there was a full public trial in this case was the new york city police department doing its own trial and one after another officials of the police department said based on the facts, this officer needs to be terminated. that s an immense show of impartiality and justice that the police department, itself, said something has to change here. that might not have happened not so many years ago. it s happening today, because a lot of reforms have been made. which gives me hope we can do that all over this country. before this decision was announced today. before that announcement of that internal investigation of the judge s finding inside the police department. you had indicated publicly at the debate that you wanted this officer to be terminated. did that impact commissioner o neal s decision? no, i said i wanted to b
august, you are not alone. 60 million people are feeling the heat as temperature and humility levels soar. we want to welcome people around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m breana kieler. you are in the situation room. [ music playing ] five years after eric garner told police i can t breathe, the new york police officer accused of fatally choking him has been punished. the nypd commissioner announcing he has been fired and will not receive his pension. eric garner s death, while in an illegal chokehold helped put a spotlight apolice brutal against unarmed african-american men. also tonight, president trump is trying to downplay the threat of recession as he privately worries about potential impact on his re-election campaign. he s also still obsessing about losing the popular vote in 2016. mr. trump is now claiming without any evidence that google manipulated millions of votes for hillary clinton.
be served because i knew there would be a fair and impartial process. i never opined on what exactly should happen. i tried to be careful to say i believe there will be justice because the nypd will do things in a fared and impartial manner. there would be a trial for the first time. it s a painful things. you made it clear you wanted justice. it s not a giant cognitive leap to figure out what that would mean. something needed to happen, right? this was the question? no, i want to be specific about it. i believe there had to be accountability. someone died who shouldn t have died. what is important is to have a fair trial. i believe that to itself would yield justice and it did. was there any private communications between you or someone else at city hall on your behest from the commissioner s office about what your preferred outcome was, what you saw as justice? you said this is justice today?