potential protests. police officers have told me in the last few minutes that across our city, the tens of thousands of new york city police department members are on high alert. they re bracing for protests like those that have continued in our city since another grand jury, that one in ferguson, missouri, made a similar decision. the new york case was caught on surveillance video, parts of it. officers tried to arrest eric garner for selling cigarettes illegally on the streets in staten island, untaxed cigarettes. lucys they called them. one cop put eric garner in a choke hold or something like a choke hold, semantics, they exist. he struggled to breathe. he said repeatedly on the video, i can t breathe. and in the end he stopped breathing and died. the coroner s office ruled the death a homicide which is a technical term. we ll get into it. now the grand jury has decided that the officer should not face charges in this death. this comes, of course, less than two weeks after the gran