i can t breathe. reporter: pantaleo wasn t talking but his lawyer, lon don, some of what he told the grand jury. he was the jury s last witness. according to his lawyer once he heard garner struggling to breathe, he tried to disentangle himself quickly as he could but it s not clear cut on the video. it appears the officer keeps arms for at least 8 seconds around garner s neck after the first mufled gasp for air. that s pantaleo in the green t-shirt with number 99. watch, he removes his arm but then uses both hands to press eric garner s face into the pavement. the officer keeps pressing long enough for garner to repeat five times, i can t breathe. the officer reportedly testified that since garner could speak, it suggested to him he could also breathe and there s more. officer pantaleo s lawyer said his client told the jury he
of new york city police officers over three days, let s give you complete coverage here, starting with alexandra field live in new york s times square right now. alexandra, good morning. you know at this protest, grown tremendously, these are larger protests than the city has seen in a long time. overnight we saw demonstrations popping up in all areas of the city. and also in a number of cities across the country. there have been arrests, but these are largely peaceful protests, the message is full of passion and the people who are out in the streets say that this is about eric garner, but it goes beyond him. why are you arrested? for standing an protesting. protesters in cuffs across new york. they wouldn t let us walk through times square. after some seven hours of marching. police cracking down as thousands of protesters gathered for a second night. standoffs but no serious violence replicated across the country.
handcuffed, he would have came up a lot faster. that s what i did. as soon as you got the guy cuffed, you can come off him and it s done. sunny, what do you see in the video? i m not going to allow other people to dictate what i see. i mean, i think it s very clear that this was excessive force. i think it s very clear that this was a choke hold. we can call it any other name. you want to call it a takedown, you want to call it an arm around the neck. bottom line is the m.e. made it clear in his findings that eric garner s death was a homicide by constriction of the neck, pressure on the neck, choke hold. and compression on the chest. i don t want to play smantics with words. we can see this was excessive force and he died from it. we haven t seen the full medical examiner s report. it hasn t been released yet. he did say i want to see the
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tragedies give us the opportunity to come together as a nation to find our balance again. i first saw the video, i was horrified and still am horrified every time i see it. as you know, eric garner, is gasping for breath saying i can t breathe, i can t believe this goes on. that was rand paul last night talking to wolf blitzer. you see the two candidates, potential candidates, they have areas of agreement when it comes to criminal justice reform. but hillary clinton focused a lot more on the state of relations between police and the black community. you saw rand paul focusing more on sentencing. saying that sentences for drug offenses, minor offenses, they should be reduced. so some agreement, but you certainly see some contrasts, rand paul saying taxes are to blame. the new york city cigarette tax more than $5 a pack. of course police were trying to