come together it s time to stop the negative energy and to move forward. this divide underscoring racial tensions between police and the communities they protect. stemming from the deaths of michael brown in ferguson and eric garner in new york and both grand jury decisions not to indict. members of the black caucus are requesting hearings into the issues raised by the deaths calling for broader police reform. house speaker john boehner did indicate last month the house might hold hearings on the deaths of garner and brown. the black caucus expected to keep up that pressure to see that that happens. chris? well jason, the obviously concern is that you have to understand the entire scope of the problem beforic figure out the solution. so let s get a little deeper on this before. we have errol lewis, cnn political commentator and political anchor at new york one news. and dan bongino, former secret service agent and former nypd
william bratton releasing this memo a hero s funeral is about grieving, not grievance. the last display put all nypd officers in a bad light. it stole the valor, honor, and attention that rightfully belonged to the memory of detective rafael ramos life and sacrifice. well let s talk more with errol lewis, political anchor at new york one news. thank you for joining us. you just heard about the memo from the police chief. you have got police officers who make a career they were for decades trying to keep the city safe and when a political appointee comes in somebody who they may have a disagreement with what is their responsibility given it s their livelihood but you have somebody who effectively seems to be disrespecting the work they do. the nypd has often had its own politics. there are times when police have engaged in demonstrations and specifically called for mayors to be voted out of office. among other things because there s 35,000 of them they are a potent political bloc jus
baltimore and now a professor at john jay college of criminal justice. errol lewis, cnn political commentator and a political anchor at new york one news. you ve seen him here on cnn. and also tom birney a former nypd detective. thank you for joining us this evening. very sensitive subject here. a lot of people believe the mayor s comments and his actions really were disrespectful and maybe ratcheted up threats against the police officers. and many think that he may have, or some i should say think that he poured fuel on a fire. do you believe that, tom? there s i think the mayor could have handled things overall i think in a better way. just my own personal opinion. and based on also watching the previous mayors of the city and how they ve handled crisises like this. under mayor bloomberg and under mayor giuliani in a crisis situation they would have come out more even keeled. they would have waited for all the facts and evidence to come out in certain cases such as staten island.
protests, we have seen tensions between the patrolmen s union and the mayor. the mayor is not commenting right now. he did not address when he spoke in a press conference last night. he s keeping his focus on the victims, but surely we will be hearing more from the union and we ll wait and see what we hear from the mayor in the coming days. alexander field, thank you so much. let s bring in our political commentator who s the political anchor at new york one news. good to have you with us this morning. good morning, victor. so let s talk about this rift. the conversation that the mayor has with his son and the way he characterized his son s interactions with police potentially, those are real conversations that people have, people who are raising young, black men, was the insult to the police not having the conversation, but using that as some type of commentary about police in general? well, the conversation and the rift between the policemen s
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