individuals. it was about the job that they had. i m not trying to interjebt the substance of what he said but the emotions and raw feelings about it, we should have an ability to step into the shoes of the officers, and if you re not a police officer, obviously hanging over all of this is the race relations and the conversation. i hear people say the mpresiden should be able to talk about race relations without acting like he s an african-american. we need to have authentic dialog in the country. what eugene is referring to is the leader of the police patrolman s union over the weekend said something about responsibility for this lying within the mayor s office and there being blood in the mayor s office. and the mayor, actually, has said that we should be able to get past that, because that was said, as eugene just mentioned in a very passionate moment. i want to show something that the mayor said today about the question of what is his
present in this case. i can t speak to it as i mentioned. i ll be the judge of this officer s fate. i understand that. let s go to the press conference. i say i one that because it would be inappropriate for you to pre-judge it because you re the judge of this. let s talk about what you saw yesterday in a press conference the head of the police union saying it was an insult what the mayor said when we all sat around the table and i ve been very supportive of police officers but at the same time if you are a young black male or a young black hispanic, you have reasons to be concerned that you re not going to be treated as fairly as one of my kids. that s not breaking news, is it? in term of the incident yesterday or the comments made by pat lynch the president of the police patrolman s association here in new york city, the pba and then the comments by the mayor both before and after, there is a difference of opinion, strong
and background checks is one effective way of making that happen. a capacity on these magazines and certainly we continue to be seeking a ban on these assault weapons as well. in this case, bloomberg is on the mark. what do you do when you get a call there s some criminal out there, an assailant of some kind who s got a semiautomatic weapon in his hands? what do you do? do you have to escalate the police response? have to arm men up to the teeth? how do you do it? i want to give people a sense of this. what s a police patrolman carry in baltimore county? certainly what we ve had to do over the years is we ve upgraded from a resolver i used to carry and i was a rookie officer to a semiautomatic weapon. we ve used the shotgun in place for many years. we upgraded to a patrol rifle, an assault rifle with a magazine of about 30. in fact, i don t think there s any place where more than 30 in law enforcement for a number of reasons. but in baltimore county, we ve had shootings at police o
lives are lost. police officers lives are lost each and every year defending our society. look, i m a protector like many law enforcement officers across the nation. elected officials and the citizens have asked us, what can we do to make our nation a safer place? and background checks is one effective way of making that happen. a capacity on these magazines and certainly we continue to be seeking a ban on these assault weapons as well. in this case, bloomberg is on the mark. what do you do when you get a call there s some criminal out there, an assailant of some kind who s got a semiautomatic weapon in his hands? what do you do? do you have to escalate the police response? have to arm men up to the teeth? how do you do it? i want to give people a sense of this. what s a police patrolman carry in baltimore county? certainly what we ve had to do over the years is we ve upgraded from a resolver i used to carry and i was a rookie officer to a semiautomatic weapon.
effective way of making that happen. a capacity on these magazines and certainly we continue to be seeking a ban on these assault weapons as well. in this case, bloomberg is on the mark. what do you do when you get a call there s some criminal out there, an assailant of some kind who s got a semiautomatic weapon in his hands? what do you do? do you have to escalate the police response? have to arm men up to the teeth? how do you do it? i want to give people a sense of this. what s a police patrolman carry in baltimore county? certainly what we ve had to do over the years is we ve upgraded from a resolver i used to carry and i was a rookie officer to a semiautomatic weapon. we ve used the shotgun in place for many years. we upgraded to a patrol rifle, an assault rifle with a magazine of about 30. in fact, i don t think there s any place where more than 30 in law enforcement for a number of reasons. but in baltimore county, we ve had shootings at police officers using an assault weap