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When the situation broke through like the garner case. i think it is hard not to watch that video of him saying i can t breathe, i can t breathe and not be horrified by it. i think there s something bigger than the individual circumstances. obviously the individual circumstances are important. i think it is important to know that some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes so that driven cigarettes jubld ground by making them so expensive. but then some politician had to say we want you arresting people for selling a loose cigarette. for someone to die over breaking that law, there is really no excuse for it. i do blame the politicians. we put our police in a difficult situation with bad laws. let me ask but the large question of our life, peace and war. we ve had a policy it seems for a long time of going into countries in the middle east. saddam hussein. we ve had two wars with iraq. we had something to do with bringing back hosni mubarak. ....
How do we bridge the gap between white and black at this time when the situation broke through like the garner case. i think it is hard not to watch that video of him saying i can t breathe, i can t breathe and not be horrified by it. i think there s something bigger than the individual circumstances. obviously the individual circumstances are important. i think it is important to know that some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes so that driven cigarettes jubld ground by making them so expensive. but then some politician had to say we want you arresting people for selling a loose cigarette. for someone to die over breaking that law, there is really no excuse for it. i do blame the politicians. we put our police in a difficult situation with bad laws. let me ask but the large question of our life, peace and war. we ve had a policy it seems for a long time of going into ....
With a more compassionate system is possible. i m not suggesting it s in any way easy, quite the contrary. one of the ways you get to the overmilitarized police force, but increasingly small time crime, this small time crime focus of a lot of departments. i want you to listen to what senator rand paul had to say to chris matthews on hardball on wednesday about the eric garner case in new york and the kind of crime he was being confronted by half dozen officers for. take a listen. some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes so that driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive, but then some politician also had to direct the police to say, hey, we want you arresting people for selling a loose cigarette. and for someone to die over, you know, breaking that law, there really is no excuse for it. but i do blame the politicians. ....
A nation to find our balance again. you agree with her? you know, i have six different bills to reform the criminal justice system and we would welcome hillary clinton, if she would like to come and help us promote this agenda. i ve been working with senator cory booker and other democrats. if she wants to join me, we would welcome her support. so it sounds like you and her, at least in this narrow area, might be on the same page. right? i think she needs to have a few more concrete proposals. we think the war on drugs has gone too far. we think many of these things could be addressed as misdemeanors, not felonies. we also think taxing cigarettes $5.85 criminalizes otherwise law-abiding people. and so the question specifically to her is, would she try to make the sale of cigettes not such a burdensome thing that it drives people into the black ....
Kind of force is acceptable or unacceptable and i really think to calm down the reaction to this, one thing that could happen is the police could say, this is unacceptable for a policeman and we can t have this type of an individual on the police force. and i want you to clarify what you said yesterday. you ve been getting some publicity, that this was a result of the high cigarette taxes in new york. explain what you meant by that. the same way the war on drugs has created policemen that are everywhere being too aggressive with enforcement of the law, such as throwing a concussion grenade into a home in atlanta, the same way high taxes draw people and push people into an underground when think of this. the $5.85 taxes, almost 60% of the cost of cigarettes, if i tell you tomorrow i m going to put a tax on bread that is $4 and bread comes $6, what happens? a black market results. ....