people are angry about what happened to eric garner that was not a chase of a violent criminal shooting. this was a guy selling cigarettes. one question he was a guy selling cigarettes and police knew it. they know eric garner. maya? i want to underscore the point that the new york police department was familiar with eric garner and he had a history of selling cigarettes so they actually knew who they were dealing with. they knew they were not dealing with drug dealers. thank you all of you. dan danny cevallos and ron allen and maya wiley. we ll get reaction from democratic presidential
police gaining up on people. right here. backup and get on the side. new york city, james o neill spoke about his decision to fire pantaleo moments ago. in this case, mr. garner s death must have a consequence of its own. i agree with findings and recommendations. it is clear that daniel pantaleo can no longer serve as new york city s police officer. certainly not the courageous men and women of the police department who put their own lives on the line every single day and service to the people of this great city. joining us now, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos and maya wylie. what s your take?
the police department in new york have had strange relationships with the mayor s office and trying to reign them in. i have to touch on this point that is this is apart of the politics. the police department is playing too much politics with this. you are not for the police if you are for individual rieghts. this idea that if i want to see the police held accountable for brutalizing and killing people unjustly, that s somehow i am against the police. we are seeing that playing out. we are playing it play out on the national level and with an issue that s really, really important for the people of color and this country right now. danny, let s talk about what s happening here with the pba situation. the police commissioner has worked on the bases of
continue to call for congressman nadler who committed con congression congressional hearing to move forward. let a jury decide whether or not garner had 10,000 cigarettes. all right, we seem to have an audio problem with that. it just gone out. you have been hearing reverend al sharpton. an interesting point, danny cevallos is back with us. al sharpton every time i talk to him about this, some things have become part of the conversation we have about eric garner that have not been proved including the fact that he had 10,000 cigarettes with him.
to never see another eric garner or another video of a person being choked out because it was not supposed to happen to him and not supposed to happen. i should not be here standing with my brother fatherless. i should be here with my father. but pantaleo took that away from me. yes, he s fired but the fight is not over. we ll continue to fight. thank you. ai will take questions. jonathan moore, the attorney for the family. thank you, reverend. we ll continue to monitor this press conference for you. he s been with the garner family the whole time. joining us now is ron allen is live at nypd headquarters, danny