elected. the garner incident, if there was a positive that came out of that was $35 million to do the retraining immediately. we were calling for the retraining of the officers of this department months before. i want to talk about retraining more because if you look at the cleveland case, if you look what happened in phoenix and across america training does seem to be a big issue. i want to go to dorian with a question. do you have a question for the police commissioner? yes. good morning, if there was one substantive reform that you could implement to really transform the culture in the police department what would it be and how would you overcome the obstacle of say the rank-and-file officers that are represented by the union how would you overcome their resistance in implementing the reform. there s not one reform. there s a series of reform and we re doing all of them in the
grand jury. let s talk about this grand jury. we can debate what happened in ferguson. let s talk about this case. he didn t die from obesity. it s important for viewers to know we re not talking about finding the officer guilty we re talking probable cause. it s the lowest standard. everybody always jokes you can indict a grapefruit. you can. what d.a. in america look at that videotape and not immediately go you know what? there s another question in both cases and that is whether the d.a. deviated from standard procedure by not recommending a charge to the grand jury. this is exactly the point. that s the problem. which is that if you simply put the evidence in front of a grand jury you may get one answer. if the d.a. goes in which what
it s straight out of like 1969. that s right. definitely the 80s. a rare collection. if you look at it closely it actually says deadly farce. can we get to the police commissioner. i want to ask him a question. very good to see you. where do we begin. my first question for you is just eric garner, how do you describe how he was killed? was it by police, by policies that put police in a bad position? was the take down the cause of his death by several police officers that surrounded him and brought him to the ground? first off you have to understand the process now has moved from the criminal court, the district attorney to the administrative review which ultimately i will make a
open and wanting to get involved in the trayvon martin situation. so i do think that when there s a debate about law enforcement s role and there s a split on that debate publicly, a divisive debate like in ferguson and cambridge, you see a reticent president. in a situation like trayvon or situation in staten island it s different. i do think the president does feel as if, you know what? one big role he can play is sort of stepping up for what is clearly a mistreatment of young african-american men by law enforcement. kasie hunt? i have a quick question for you senator gillibrand back on this sexual assault report. retaliation doesn t seem to be down, people are reporting that when they are sexually assaulted in the military they are being retaliated against by their commanders. my question is two fold. first what s the best way do you
christie s defense there that s a lawyer, there are a lot of times i heard a verdict and i said oh, my god that s the worst verdict ever. let me finish my sentence. and then you talk to the lawyers in the case and they tell you oh, it s not that simple. i m not talking about these two case. i do understand as a prosecutor and i m sure you ve talked to prosecutors too where we see a headline and then everybody rushes out and decides something different. i want to respond to that. the thing is mcculloch invited second guessing by releasing the evidence. the d.a. in staten island invited second guessing by saying i want to release evidence. when you say put it in the court of public opinion you re inviting people to form an opinion. don t we want to be transparent. let me say this. grand jury proceedings are typically secret. my question is why in these cases did prosecutors deviate.