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Into one you ll never forget. earn points for every flight and every hotel. expedia plus rewards. one of the most stalwart defenders of police conduct in ferguson has been democratic state representative jeffrey rorda. he s the man who released this blistering statement blasting rams football players for adopting the hands-up pose on sunday calling it unthinkable that hometown athletes would so publicly perpetuate a narrative that has been disproven over and over again about the last moments of michael brown s life. joining me now is jeff roorda business manager for the police officers association and mark plaqueston director of black enforcement alliance. mr. roorda, do you understand ....
Move, we are moving that way on saturday a week from this saturday, december 13th, we are having a national march in washington, d.c., where we are calling for the justice department to take this case and the case in ferguson and the case in cleveland. it is time for a national march to deal with a national crisis. why a national march? because if we we cannot be put around like social hamsters. one minute ferguson, next minute new york, next minute cleveland. no, we re going to bring ferguson, cleveland and all of new york to the nation s capital. that s right. to say enough is enough. ....
Dealing with this garner case which he s indicating he may not have as much information on, it s on videotape. we don t have to presuppose so many of these items and issue, but we can review what happened over in ferguson and quite clearly, you know, there is a bias that mr. roorda and many police officers have accepted and have put out in the media and just treated as if it s fact, when it is not established fact. even the grand jury process did not establish facts. they examined evidence and made their own judgments based on a faulty presentation made by the prosecution, which has set precedent throughout this nation. how is it faulty? well, the process itself. when the process for all of these years and all of the cases this is a prosecutor that put every single piece of evidence. let me answer your question. and then he s criticized for giving too much information to the grand jury. let me just answer your question. ....
Now, then when if not a man caught on video in a choke hold saying i can t breathe, then when? i spoke with ben garner, eric garner s father, and he said he was just tired. and he wanted to keep pushing on not just today but tomorrow. he urged folks to be calm and peaceful, but to keep pushing. unlike those crowds we see throughout the city, it wasn t raucous here but that kind of exhalation that not just with eric garner but the mike brown situation and then in ohio. people are wondering when will justice arrive. the chants have risen from ferguson here, black lives matter, black lives matter. folks here say they re losing any sense that america as a society, as a culture believes that black lives in fact matter. trymaine lee in staten island, thank you very much. one of the most outspoken ....
With the local police. they do not have the independence and lack of conflict. this is not a position we are taking tonight. we said this from the beginning. the mother and wife of eric garner and their attorneys and i have had two meetings with the federal government and the eastern district and had press conferences at both times. so you know we ve asked for this. we ve asked for this now nationally because of ferguson, because of cleveland and here. i was in the meeting at the white house with the president as they began moving. the attorney general talked with mrs. garner and me today. they talked about an independent investigation. but let s be clear. let s be clear that while we ask for the federal government to ....