bode well for the consumer. and as i said, companies, they can t continue to eat this cost. that s largely what happened so far. bigger companies that have wider profit margins, they can kind of say okay, we ll eat this cost. we won t pass it on to the consumer. retailers don t have that luxury. all right, courtney brown, thank you. good to see you. off the job, a judge suspended the nypd officer caught on video choking eric garner. who will make that final decision about whether pantaleo will leave the department for good? will leave the department for good most people think a button is just a button. that a speaker is just a speaker. or - that the journey can t be the destination. most people haven t driven a lincoln. discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship
criminal. and donald trump just reminds them of that every day so they stay on board. donald trump is fox news whose job, according to gabe sherman and other people who study fox news, their job is 100% to keep white americans riled up, to keep them angry, to keep them pissed off and freaked out about black and brown people. donald trump has the same job. it s the only way that he even has a chance of being re-elected. joy reid is the host of am joy must-see tv weekends at 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. thank you. coming up next the nypd officer seen on video choking eric garner is suspended after a judge recommends his termination from the development. the final outcome of which lies in the hands of the nypd commissioner. we ll have more on that on the other side. you are watching msnbc. [ alarm beeping ]
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wrong in the eyes of their union leaders at least. that was patrick lynch, the head of the new york city police officer s union who is paid to tell you that the police officer you see on video choking eric garner to death is a model police officer. that s the way police unions play it. they don t care about the truth in cases like that. they care about nothing other than getting their guy off the hook. and they have no problem, none, standing in front of microphones and saying things that are provably untrue in the regular course of their public relations campaigns for police officers in trouble. patrick lynch was not content to say today cha the officers who participate in the homicide of eric garner did nothing against the police rules or did nothing technically illegal. that was not good enough for
in staten island today after a grand jury decided not to in staten island today after a grand jury decided not to bring charge against the nypd officer who is shown on video choking eric garner to death, new york city mayor bill de blasio said this. we ve heard in so many places people of all backgrounds utter the same basic phrase. they ve said black lives matter. and they said it because it had to be said. it s a phrase that should never have to be said. it should be self-evident. but our history, sadly, requires us to stay that black lives matter. because as i said the other day, we re not just dealing with a problem in 2014, we re not dealing with years of racism leading up to it or decades of racism.