at this hour new york city protesters just down a few feet from us, streaming up park avenue, blocking traffic, taking over the street, shouting through bull horizon, justice for eric garner. this happening as protesters fan out across the city. some headed down to the staten island ferry, protesting in 80 cities around the country tonight in the wake of that grand jury decision not to indict eric garner. and reaction non-indict the officer that put the chokehold around eric garner. the reaction to that non-indictment of officer daniel pantaleo hasn t cleaved to the normal or expected red-blue liberal-conservative divide. for instance, here s how glenn beck reacted. i don t know exactly how this happened, but i will tell you this. the decision of the grand jury in new york on the death of eric garner, here s a guy who was not resisting arrest, was not being a jerk. the video is very, very clear. how this cop did not go to jail, was not held responsible, is beyond me.
under rudy giuliani. a kind of concept of crime prevention that says you penalize people and you enforce small infractions as a way of sort of creating a sense of order. and a lot of people pointed out the fact that eric garner s infraction was selling loose cigarettes allegedly, untaxed cigarettes. the mayor and commissioner bratton say they believe in this kind of policing still. what do you think about that? i do as well. you really do? yes, i do. i don t want to return to a city with people that urinate on the street, where people are discourteous to everyday new yorkers. what you do is you use the right amount of force to correct small infractions. someone should not lose their life because they re selling loosies. and that is the difference. how you approach someone for a minor infraction should be the same way throughout the city. and we re not doing that. as a police officer, as someone who has dealt with i m
but when the mayor reduces that stop and frisk and we found that our crime rate actually went down. so a lot of this is about respect. we ve got to get back to that. by the way, body cameras are not enough. there s some kind of way we ve got to police and the people they are supposed to protect and serve have got to come together. congressman elijah cummings of baltimore, thank you very much. thank you. you heard the congressman talk about body cameras. the president of course announced a pilot program to purchase body cameras. and there s a lot of people in the wake of the eric garner decision who i have seen saying wait a second, if we had this on tape, what difference will body cameras make? i m going to talk to one of the most outspoken advocates for body cameras here in new york after the break.
minor offenses in the city of new york. and so there s a wide range of things including providing diversity to the department above the office of captain. public advocate patricia james, thank you so much. thank you. really appreciate it. protesters continue to walk up the west side highway, and some are headed downtown to the staten island ferry terminal as hundreds, thousands throng the streets here in new york protesting the decision not to indict new york city police officer in the choking death of eric garner. we ll be back with much more. our streets! our streets! [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took a deep breath. [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] and made the decision to quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. now we invite smokers to quit, too, with our comprehensive program. we just want to help everyone, everywhere, breathe a little easier. introducing cvs health. because health is everything. introducing cvs
something has to happen because tamir rice s death cannot be in vain. state senator nina turner in ohio. you re seeing live images right now in new york city as throngs take to the streets protesting the death of eric garner, the decision of the grand jury not to indict the officer who put him in a chokehold. lots more after this break. here they come. the people, unite. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? aleve, proven better on pain. i i like to think of myself as more of a control. enthusiast.