necessary to effect the arrest. if you have to take them to the ground you do so in the face up as opposed to the prone position or face down like we saw in the garner case. the reason it s taught that way is because positional asphyxiation due to these face-down prone chokehold maneuvers is lethal. and you don t know who amongst us has health problems such as mr. garner had that makes people like that especially susceptible to death. the better police practice is face up or we call it supine restraint rather than prone. do you think there will be a federal case? do you think? do you think there s enough here that it s likely that attorney general holder will act here and intervene and bring a case? i do. i think the videotape speaks for itself in the sense of how eric
on the right. first of all, there was no racism in this case. there s no indication this was if this man were a white man resisting arrest at that same size the same thing would happen. from my knowledge of the case there s absolutely no element of racism here and there was no intent by the police officer to cause any type of deadly harm or physical harm at all to the decedent here to mr. garner. i think this would have happened to a white guy doing the same thing. i don t think it had to do with skin color. i think it had to do with poor judgments made by the group of police officers. joining me now, msnbc political analyst michael eric dyson. michael of course got into it with former mayor rudy giuliani on meet the press on precisely this issue. what is your reaction to that? on the one hand you ve got so many folks saying look, this was messed up, it s hard to look at that tape and think it wasn t messed up, but this isn t about race. you know, this is about the just
are the confrontations that we saw last night between police and protesters. this has been a very peaceful march. in fact, one of the ironies is that even though they chant sayings that are very brog toir to the new york police, it s the new york police department that s clearing roads that they can march kwhout getting hit by traffic about ten minutes ago, the police were lined up. to stop the protesters. and, in fact, behind me, there are some police officer cars who are sort of catching up, you know, making sure the protesters are protected as well. but the point of this protest tonight is to command accountability from government officials. these people say they want an indictment in the death of eric garner. if it hasn t happened on the local level, they want it to happen on the federal level.
of the neck in it. it describes what happened but yet the grand jury couldn t find it. i was struck by a daily news interview with the young man who shot the video. he said he testified for ten minutes. the officer testified for over two hours. he said the grand juries were indifferent to what he had to say. the only questions they had were about eric garner s actions, why was he there, what was he doing? i think the fact that people even with the videotape can t bring themselves to see, not a crime, but the possibility of a crime, something worthy of going to trial, does lead you to ask, no matter where you are on the ideological spectrum, if you can t get an indictment here, where can you get an indictment? and lawrence, lawrence, conservatives should be going crazy over this. yes, they should. there s no greater power that we entrust to the state than the power to take liberty and life. and to see it misused and abused in this way in case after case
5,000 protesters are headed south downtown toward the staten island ferry terminal. protesting the decision of the grand jury not to indict the officer who had his arm around the neck of eric garner. we ll be back with much more live in new york after a break. turn the trips you have to take, into one you ll never forget. earn points for every flight and every hotel. expedia plus rewards.