chicken parm you taste so good nationwide is on your side mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm i m not interested in talk. i m interested in action. i am absolutely committed as president of the united states to making sure that we have a country in which everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law. president obama today responding to the grand jury s decision in the eric garner case. talking about the need to make sure everyone has equal protection under the law. the eric garner case, like the michael brown case, is raising serious questions about whether police involved homicides can be handled at the local level.
pantaleo. he said i became a police officer to help people and protect those who can t protect themselves. it is never my intention to harm anyone, and i feel very bad about the death of mr. garner. my family and i include him and his family in our prayers and i hope that they will accept my personal could not dole enlss. what is your reaction to that? they should have asked for our apology while they had him down them should have let him up. they should apologize to him while he was down there. let him up. that would have been the apology. the condolences and the remorse should have been when he was on the ground asking to let him breathe. his apology to me now means absolutely nothing. my son is left without his father. my grand kids are left without their grandpa and i m left without my husband.
the police and the communities of color. eric garner did not deserve to die. new york congressman hakeem jeffreys on what may be the key issue of our time. you don t need to think that makes our lives possible. because we do. we re exxonmobil. and powering the world responsibly is our job.
i mentioned the body cameras. here wave video. what else can be done? we need some courageous prosecutors. or independent. and say there s probable cause. that doesn t mean the trial will result in a conviction. it means there will be a contest with advocates on both sides for the officer and for mr. garner, for the prosecution. there will be a fight, a court, a trial. a cross-examination. evidence presented. a judge ruling on it. that s what the public is asking for. and probable cause is such a low standard. every single arrest in the country by every officer, city, county, state and federal, is based on the premise of probable cause or a warrant sworn out with probable cause. every single arrest. and every single search. that s from the constitution. where the words probable cause appears. it is a very low bar. it is unbelievable that it can t be achieved in a case where there s video. and the force really is excessive, given that there are
that we ve largely band ond. that has helped strain the relationship between police and the community. we need to really look at outlawing racial profiling, particularly as it relates to law enforcement officers. that s a conversation that attorney general holder began to have in atlanta. and we need to work on that issue as well. and we need some real reporting in terms of the instanlss of the excessive use of force. this occurs every day in america. it results in homicides, unfortunately, in far too many instances. the reason we see so many young people all across the country reacting is because this is their daily reality. as derrek garner said, this ends today. it must end. thank you for your time. still ahead, how to change police tactics in this country. can the eric garner case help trans perform how police