>> a grand jury decides not to indict. in the case of eric garner. a black man who died when a white police officer put him in a chokehold. >> airbag maker takata says it's not necessary to recall despite

airbags can explode and send metal flying. >> a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man has yielded protests tonight. you're looking at live pictures from time square. let's roll them in. new york city. 43-year-old eric garner died after an officer put him in a choke hold after he was arrested in staten island. new york's mayor just moments ago vowed to make changes to the city's police force. let's begin with paul beban. paul, you're at the site of the incident. what more can you tell us? set the scene for us. >> well, good evening, it's kind of a chilly, blustery, slightly rainy evening out here. very quite scene. the confrontational of no

justice, no peace. it's a neighborhood gathering here, and not important to know not a heavy police presence. just now we had a police cruiser pull up. but for the most part the police presence has been very stand off. people are just sort of milling around, getting together, talking in small groups. again, the occasional chance of no justice, no peace. not a confrontational scene here. not one that seems to be fueling for any sort of aggression. not a lot of anger here. you mentioned the mayor talking a little bit earlier trying to bring this community together, mentioning that there be some police reform. he also spoke about his family's personal experience with the police. let's listen to that. >> we have literally trained h him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter with police officers, who are there to protect him.

that painful sense of contradiction that our young people see first that, our police are here to protect us, and we honor that, at the same time there is a history we have to overcome because for so many of our young people there is a fear. and for so many of our families there is a fear. >> reporter: so tony, the crowd here again slowly building although no more than maybe 50-60 people at most in any given time. people passing in and out, it seems from on their home from work. perhaps tomorrow when the weather clears up a little bit, right now calm in staten island at the scene of eric garner's death, as you mentioned, back in july. >> look around in that crowd. it looks like you have various demographics. it looks like you have blacks and whites all sort of gathering there. is that correct? >> it looks like new york city. you have a mix of blacks folks, white folks.

you have agencies walking around. it's staten island. one of the most diverse parts of the world. maybe not the diverse parts of new york city, but your working class neighborhood. shops around, people going about their business for the most part. >> paul beban keeping an eye for us. roxana saberi in times square. roxanne in a when we came to you earlier it was louder, how would you describe it now? they have walked on to rockefeller. what is has happened is the famous christmas tree is supposed to be lit up. they were walking here and calling for it to shut down. they wanted to shut down the christmas lighting tree event to make a statement. when they were here several protesters were chanting things

like "acan'i can't breathe." many say they were not surprised that the grand jury decided not to indict officer pantaleo. while this happens all the time, there are black citizen who is are killed by white officers, and they say the white officers are never held accountable. right now we do see some police presence, they have moved on. there was a moderate police presence behind me. it has been peaceful, and that is something that gwen carr, eric garner's mother, called for yesterday if there was a protest after the grand jury decision was declared. i spoke to her yesterday, and this is what she had to say. >> i'll have to continue to fight because i'm not going to let it rest. i can't let it rest. my son will not have died in vain. he didn't deserve it.

>> and gwen carr also told me that her family is planning a wrongful death lawsuit against the nypd. so it sounds like there is a very long road to go yet for her and her family. >> roxana saberi for us at times square. thank you. let's take a look at some of the key events in the eric garner case. there was a confrontation on staten island between garner and officer pantaleo. garner was pronounced dead at the hospital. on july 19th nypd stripped officer pantaleo of his gun and badge. on july 21st, the hospital suspends four emergency workers without pay. and then a grand jury ruled garner's death by choke hold. on november 13th, a new york

city councilman introduced a bill criminalized the use of choke holds. let's go to david shuster. there is another key piece of this timeline, and it is the testimony of officer pantaleo. >> that's right. they suspect if the officer pantaleo had not testified before the grand jury, it might have gone different. he said, i had no intent of injuring him in any fashion. i was trying to restrain him because he was resisting arrest. it was compelling enough for the grand jury not to bring any charges. to the point that jimmy said a few moments ago, there is no cross-examination, but that's up to the prosecutor's discretion. if. >> if the members of the grand jury want to ask, if they say we

understand that you have a relative who did--that's all allowed? >> but it is not a trial. >> it is not a trial. but the threshold is all you need is probable cause that a crime might have been committed. >> and we want to explain that distinction? obviously when--i think everybody--everybody understands that when you go to trial because now trial--these drama shows have taken over. law and order taught us all i have a right that i'm innocent and you have to prove that i'm wrong beyond a reasonable doubt, but the grand jury it's different. they just have to tip the scale a tiny bit. >> cases like this, not cases involving police officers as a result in an indictment. the okay, the idea that they're not going to indict on

manslaughter, but the fact that they did not indict on something just based on the video testimony, and the grand jurors could have said it's not illegal to use a choke hold, but it's against department policy. >> okay, okay, that's the question. >> that's where the larger political question o socio-economic question of the value of black life intercepts with the law. >> let me ask a question. here's the question. explain to african-americans, explain to everyone watching, not just ar african-americans. >> we're all in it together. >> but particularly afte african americans. >> when the police uses a techniques banned by the police force, and it results with no

result at all from the grand jury. >> because as your timeline pointed out, at the time that the action occurred it was not criminal. it may have been a violation of policy, but it was not yet criminal. which is why the bill has since been introduced. and by the way, nypd has also reminded not so gently its officers, hey, we don't do this. new commissioner, new mayor, but now a bill to criminalize the choke hold, and to be fair we should also point out that the coroner did say that there were pre-existing medical conditions, but you take your victim as you find them. >> this falls under the administration, the administrative part of this that bill de blasio pointed out. this is just one chapter. but the police can decide to fire this guy, take away his badge and gun. >> look at what happened in ferguson.

>> and there are other steps. >> civil lawsuits. >> the fact that those options remain open is that enough to tamper down the rage that people legitimately feel tonight. >> i was talking about the money damages not only against the one officer who probably has shallow pockets, but nypd and the city, who has deep pockets. >> hang on to your fire. there are a couple of bits ever business that i want to bring back to you. we want to hear from eric garner's father. >> the man who killed somebody, right here on the street. they come out. who controls the police department? >> president obama reacted quickly to the grand jury decision saying that many

americans are frustrated with the justice system. what can you tell us about what the president has to say? >> the president reacted quickly just as it did in the wake of a grand jury decision. he had a previously scheduled event just down the way at the department of interior at the annual tribal conference. the president said there are issues raised in the staten island incident and the fergus ferguson, missouri. they have initiated a task force to look in to how the police interact with minority communities across the country, and asking congress for some $623 million for further training and body cameras. this, offer, was on camera, and evidently it did not make any difference. here's a little bit more with what the president had to say. >> we're not going to let up until we see a strengthening of

the trust and a strengthening of the accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement. >> and tony just as in the case of the grand jury decision in ferguson, eric holder spoke shoulderly after that. we expect to hear from eric holder in an hour's time from the department of justice amid reports that the doj is going ahead with the civil rights investigation of the officer on staten island much like the civil rights investigation under bay into officer darren wilson of the ferguson police department. >> mike viqueira for us. i appreciate it. thank you. let's get back to jamie floyd. i want you to take on a question, and just because i'm posing the question does not mean that i believe it, but i'm going to pose the question. you got a case like trayvon martin, eric garner, and michael brown in missouri, and others.

and others. and our business starts to spin on it 24 hours news cycle, right? and you can be left with the impression the narrative that it's open season on african-americans males. >> mm-hmm. >> put this whole set of events, disturbing events, and deaths, police-involved shootings with african-american males as victims into some kind of context from your background and your legal training, and your life experience on this planet. >> yes, it's not a spin. it's not a narrative. i've been covering these cases for 20 years, and as a lawyer, if you include my law school time, i'll admit to it, almost 30 years, right? and i have ancestry on both sides of the line, black and white. slave holder and picking the

cotton. i fully respect both perspecti perspectives here, and i know where everybody is coming from. i see clearly to the root of the problem if folks do not believe that there is a disregard for the black male in this country, the life of the young black male especially, they just need to wake up and look at the facts clearly and squarely. we have to confront them. we have to talk about it. and the system is not consciously perpetrating a conspiracy against black people, but it is designed and rooted in a legacy that goes back to jim crow and before that. and we have to study that history and be honest and open and have a conversation about it. and until we do we're not going to resolve it. so what happens when an officer, who is white, and sometimes even when that officer is black, and

again i refer people to the sean bell case because there we were talking about a multi racial group of officers, they see the young black male--sometimes there is not a conscious decision to disregard the life of that young man, the racism starts when we're born. we begin to be programmed from childhood about which life is valued and which life is not, and if we join law enforcement perhaps we take that programming with us on to the force. that's why we need diverse police forces, which they do not have in ferguson. of course our police force in new york is much, much larger. you can't even make a comparison, but also we need to be having conversations about who we are as a people and how we intersect. we need to converse and look each other in the eye and be honest about this problem of race, and now increasingly class that we have here in america. that's why with something like this happens it's not just about

eric garner. it's not just about mike brown. it's not just about trayvon, and it was never just about emmett till. it's about so much more. but we only discuss it in terms of the moment that we're standing in rather than the arc of history. we got to talk about the arc of history, tony. >> i might challenge you on a couple of points. >> well, you should. i'm saying that's the conversation that we need to have. >> i don't have. we got to go. >> that's why problem has all those people sitting in the white house. maybe they can fix it. >> thank you. thank you. you know a lot of people are reacting to the grand jury decision on social media. >> let me show you some of though resources to actions. they're using the hashta hashtag #i can't breathe.

>> this tweet has received a slew of responses. >> that's pretty strong stuff. ines. i appreciate it thank you. much more from you later in the program. and much more ahead on this grand jury decision coming up. also a company that made faulty airbag claims that there is no reason to extend the recall to all 350 states. the man whose lawyers say he is to mentally ill to be executed wins a temporary reprieve.

>> less than ten hours texas was set to execute scott p a, netti, his lawyers say that he's too mentally ill, and his execution would be cruel and unusual punishment. this should give the court a little more time to consider the legal questions, correct? >> the question is panetti competent to go through execution. hthe judge ruled that he was competent, but his attorney said that that was a long time ago, and he's sicker than ever

before. >> scott panetti lives another day, avoiding execution. the court of appeals said it will stay the execution to further order of the court to allow us to fully consider the late arriving and complex legal questions at the issue in this matter. he was given medication. medication did not work. he was hospitalized more than a dozen times. and then in 1992 he shot and killed his wife's parents. >> he did so believing this was a fight between good and evil, and in killing them he was getting rid of the devil. >> the evidence did never made it in trial. he represented himself. he dressed as a cowboy and tried

to subpoena god and john f. kennedy. >> this is one of the worst cases of schizophrenia i've ever seen. >> they say that panetti did not have a rational understanding of his punishment. >> my opinion is that he did not know the right reason he was being put to death. he thought he was being put to death because he preached the word of the gospel. >> reporter: panetti's attorneys say they're grateful to suspend the excuse as they review more evidence. they say it would have amounted to cruel and usual punishment. and this is actually the second time that panetti's case will be before the justices. back in 2007 it was his case that refined the legal standard defining competency to be executed. the irony here is it's the same

case that will test that standard. >> heidi zhou castro in huntsville, texas, thank you. takata refused to issue a nationwide recall for airbags. lisa stark joins us from washington with more on this. >> reporter: well, tony, takata airbags have been blamed for four deaths in the united states, and dozens of injuries. now there have been millions recalled nationwide over the past several years, but this latest recall only involves a couple of different states. takata was asked to make it nationwide by the government, the company refocused and got an earful on capitol hill. >> we have deeply sorry about each case. >> reporter: lawmakers were angry over takata's refusal laid

out in a letter. takata wrote: >> it is happening more, and how many have to died before you make it a nationwide airline. >> takata said that it's limited to a few high humidity areas such as florida. that's where cory burdick's airbag exploded, sending a metal shard into his eye. >> it sounded like a shotgun, and my right side went pitch back. >> burdick is now blind in his right eye. at first they graye agreed to a limited recall. but after two more explosions it called for a nationwide effort. honda, which has the most cars

affected, has now announced it will move forward with its own country wide recall. the drivers side airbags on effected vehicles. >> why are we doing this? because our customers have concerns and we want to address them. >> lawmakers themselves have had plenty of concerns. first and foremost what is the root cause of the problem? >> do you know whether the issue today is manufacturing related or is it a design flaw in the inflater itself? do you know the answer to that question? >> if takata is not sure what's wrong, what about the quality of the airbags. >> are the airbags installed as a result of the recall safe? >> and what about the propellent used in the airbags? did they warn the company that the in the of nitrate was unstable. >> did you blow it off and say it doesn't matter?

it costs less? did you say we think we can get by with this? >> none of the answers satisfied lawmakers. >> the confusing contrary, uncertain, and sometimes purely nonsensical information that comes from takata is confusing to drivers. they don't know whether their cars are safe. >> that concern was shared by the deputy administrator of ntsa who said they would continue to push for a broader recall, saying the industry must step up to the plate and put safety first. quite a hearing. >> lisa stark for us in washington. thank you. back to our top story. reaction to another controversial grand jury decision. no indictment in the case of issuing garner who decide after being put in a choke hold by a white police officer. that's next.

>> okay, protests are growing in new york after a grand jury today decided not to indict a white police officers in the death of a black unarmed man. eric garner died after being put in a choke hold this last july. we just learned that eric holder will investigation. investigate. this was earlier in times square. not a huge number but certainly building. those crowds are now walking towards rockefeller center where there is a tree lighting ceremony going on tonight, and they may attempt to shut that down. my guess is police will keep that from happening, but there is the rockefeller center, and you can see the tree right there in the foreground. let's take you to staten island

now at the site where the incident happened. there is a vigil happening. paul beban is there live for us. paul? >> reporter: well, tony, as you mentioned those crowds are building in times square, and they're also building on staten island. we've had a very interesting scene. you can see this crowd over my shoulder. we're over a block, just a couple of doors down from the actual scene where eric garner was killed back in july, and there is a man here with a bullhorn, who was inciting the crowd talking about confrontation with the police state, and another man who we believe is eric garner's stepfather. he stepped in and was cal calmed people down. people are chanting no justice, no peace starting up again. there is quiet talking amongst neighbors and friends, and then

outburst of emotion and chanting. there is a scene that is feeling more tension, but not confrontational. crowds are building, family and friends gathering to remember, and discussing the ramification of the grand jury. we heard from mayor de blasio and other civic leaders. let's hear from mayor deglassio earlier about change in the community. >> there will be change in every neighborhood in the city. itnot come first and foremost. it comes from the people of the city. the change is about the values of our people. ththe goodness of our people. that's where change comes from. people have an opportunity to play a role by continuing to work for it. >> tony, one other thing to note--one other thing to note here tonight, not a very heavy

police presence at all. we've not seen police on the scene. maybe a few squad cars here and there. if they are here they're standing off trying to keep tensions low. that's how it's felt so far here tonight in staten island. >> paul, just one quick one before we go. how many people were gathered there when you arrived? how many people are there now? and give us a sense of how it's growing? >> well, we've been here a couple of hours. just a few hours ago, now it's closer to--it's a little bit later in the evening. people are getting home from work. maybe 100 at moment, that seems to be where it's within for a while now. it's definitely been growing over the past hour or so. >> appreciate it. paul beban for staten island. on the phone we have congressman gregory meeks. it's good to talk with you again. what are your thoughts on the

decision? does it surprise you not to indict in this case? >> i'm shocked. it's a question of almost what do you believe? someone was saying you're lyin' eyes or what someone else is telling put i don't know how anyone that viewed that videotape would not come up with a simple burden. i'm not talking about convicting someone without a reasonable doubt but probable cause that a crime was committed and the person accused committed the crime. what happens, you have a medical examiner who says that there was a homicide. they say that the homicide was caused by choking or by a choke hold, and that the police officer that administered the choke hold has violated police procedure because the choke hold was prohibited by the police department. so to come up with zero as far

as indictment. no criminal homicide. no involuntary manslaughter not even a misdemeanor blows my mind. all you have to show is probable cause, and the videotape itself in my estimation is probable cause. >> what's going on here? you're shocked. i was surprised by this, and many i in our newsroom saw this decision coming. i was shocked. you're shocked. what's going on here? >> i think that we have a deeper problem, and it's not just new york. it's not ferguson. it's an american problem where individuals are looking at particularly african-american males are looking at it in a different light than anybody else. it's clear that we don't live in a post racial america, and we've got a huge fight on our hands to make a difference and to have

justice, transparency and equality happen within the criminal justice system. unfortunately, just as we had to do in the 60's and the 50's, we have to call on the federal government to engage the correct inactions and the lack of actions, and to some degree the relationships between prosecutors, police departments and how they present these cases to the grand jury. we need a federal government to step in, and intervene. that's what took place when we had another officer back in the 60's named bull connor, that was beating people in the head and doing all kinds of things where people were not arrested or indicted then. it took the people and the federal government to step in to stop it. >> so congressman meeks, are grand juries seemingly in the last two cases here we're talking about eric garner and michael brown, behaving more

like pettit juries than grand juries are supposed to behave? >> that's where my initial thought is, how did the district attorneys present the case? they are the ones--i'm a former prosecutor. when you go in to the grand jury, you control it. no one else. it's not an equal process. it's not really a fair process, to be quite honest with you, you control the process. you don't present as a d.a. all of the evidence. you don't have any obligation to present all of the evidence. you present just your strongest case. and so that's why i think that now in the staten island case that there needs to be complete transparency, and that record needs to be open so that we can see what questions were asked of the witnesses. we have police officers who were given immunity. we want to know why they were given immunity, and what did

they testify to. and whether or not the d.a. at the conclusion of presenting the case asked for an indictment as they would most would do. they would ask for an indictment. and here hearly broke police procedure. you have medical examiners, this was a homicide caused by a choke hold, and you have cameras showing a guy on the ground saying i can't breathe, i can't breathe, and no letting up. >> congressman, for anyone who is watching this program, and for anyone who wants to believe in this system, and especially for african-americans who want to believe in the system, how is it that you're supposed to believe in a system in a a man ends up dead as a result with an altercation with police who violated police procedure, engaged in a technique banned by the new york city police department, and yet you don't

get an indictment of any kind? can you explain that to people who are watching this program? >> i don't think anybody can explain it. i think what you saw and what you have is a violation of human rights. i think that as much as we look at and go and talk about violation of human rights and other countries and around the world, you know, first that's what takes place at home. you can't be hypocritical about it. to me there was a violation of a human rights person who is now dead because of that violation. and so there is no way. i had a staff of mine, who has a son, and she came and asked me what does she tell her son, her young son, who is in college. what does she tell him? i as a member of congress, i didn't have an answer to that. i received an e-mail from a close friend of mine who has a

son in college. what does he do? what does he tell his son to protect him? what i do now myself if for any reason i happen to get pulled over or something, i tell automatically i put all the windows down so that the police when they come up, every window is down. i make sure that i'm not going into my glove compartment to get my driver's license or registration or anything. that's what i do. i don't want mistakes done because i'm a black man in america. >> well, congressman, let me stop for a second and ask you. you represent new york city. you represent queens, and what other area do you represent? >> queens and national county. >> what do you want to say to this community tonight to people who are watching this program? >> well, what i'm saying to the people is that what it takes now, because in problem is deeper than just saying you can

have a body camera. that's what people are talking about before. body cameras are going to solve this problem. this clearly shows that boyd cameras will not solve this problem. but what it will take is from the inside out. i'm telling individuals, i think they do need to get in the streets and demonstrate in a peaceful manner to show that we're not going to put up with this all across america from new york to los angeles. from los angeles to-- >> protest, protest in a peaceful manner is what you're saying. >> in a peaceful manner. we don't want to distract from what the message is. the key to the civil rights movement in the 60's when i was just a kid, if there was any violence on behalf of the individuals who were demonstrating, they never would have locked at the cause or reason they were demonstrating. they were just talk about the rioters. we don't want the issue or the focus to get away from the issue. we want people in the streets, and get the issue across in a

non-violent way. >> congressman meeks. i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> joining us on the phone is cornell william brooks, president and ceo of the naacp. it is good to have you on the program. first of all, your thoughts and reaction. >> good evening. >> a pleasure to have you on the program. what is your reaction to the decision by the grand jury in staten island not to indict in this case? >> like many americans i'm saddened and disappointed that we have yet again another african-american young man who has lost his life at the hands of the police. we have eric garner. we have michael brown, we have legions of young people who really believe based upon their experience and hardcore data that there is a pandemic of police misconduct.

african-americans are 21 more times likely to lose their lives at the hands of police than their white counterparts. there is a profound problem that we cannot ignore if we are to honor constitutional values. this is what i'm heartened by. we have people all across this country who have gone beyond sadness and beyond outrage, and they're taking to the streets non-violently and peacefully and asserting rights under the constitution to make their voices heard and heeded. and so i believe we are in a critical constitutional and critical social justice movement. we're seeing as we take a journey from ferguson, missouri, to jefferson city, month, on our

journey for justice that americans are responding, and we need to be clear. they're not likely to be lulled back to sleep in terms of acquiesce. i hope and pray that it will be well understoodly congress and legislature, but be clear no one is going back to sleep. >> appreciate your time. thank you. cornell williams brooks, ceo of the naacp. with me now is dante barry, you're familiar to you from this program. he's organizer of the million hoodies movement. dante, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> your shouts today. >> you're not surprised. >> i'm not surprised. >> i'm shocked. >> it hurts and it's shocking. there was a false assumption of

hope. the system was not designed for black people. >> a false assumption of hope. >> a false assumption of hope. >> did that come from the fact that there was video on this, and some how that might lead to a different outcome because we could see the events as they unfolded that day? >> a couple of things. one, i think there was an illegal practice of law, the illegal choke hold, that was outlawed by nypd 20 years ago. second-- >> there was no city or state statute on that. >> no, there isn't. second, i think around--it was on camera. however, i want to challenge president obama's initiative to install body cameras because eric garner had a camera. tamir rice, there was a camera. and rodney king had cameras

around. it goes back to--you can have cameras but without accountability or oversight around it, it means nothing. this is a systemic issue in terms of how police officers are held accountable, and how also black people specifically-- >> jamie floyd suggested in her comments that there needs to be a dramatic unbundling of race and how it has been applied against african-americans in this country from a historical perspective. because those vestiges have not been washed out of the system. do you agree with that? >> i definitely agree with that. again, i said this before where the history of policing started with slave patrols. the very same badge on police officers was a symbol for safety

passage. there is a history around it. and there is a history in the 60's of vigilantism, and kkk and emmett till. this whole concept of policing needs to to be reformed. >> what is the conversation you want to have, and who is in the room? >> first, i think we need to be looking specifically in new york we need to be looking at broken windows policing. >> the quality of life, whatever they call it. >> exactly. and it's because of stop and frisk and it was the reason that eric garner was first mishandled. we also need to be holding the district attorney accountable for not prosecuting in the right way. when we look at this on the federal level we need to be pushing charge, and having the d.o.j. investigation around that, and then that really brings us, one, we have a a case

around marley graham and then ferguson, mike brown, and these are systemic issues. these are cases happening every sing day. every 28 hours a black person is killed by a police officer. >> dante, it's good to have this conversation with you. let's do our part. let's keep it going. dante berry, from ferguson to staten island. recent high-profile case where is police shot and killed unarmed black men, we're taking a look at how these legal bodies actually work. randall pinkston. >> reporter: tony, as we all know grand jury proceedings are usually secret. we don't know what they heard and saw but we do know this. prosecutors are in charge, and there is a difference in the way prosecutors handle case where is civilians are accused of using deadly force, versus when police are accused. new york city consists of five

counties. in richmond county eric garner died last july during an arrest by new york city police officers, district attorney daniel donovan spent three months questioning witnesses. they call that lengthy presentation highly unusual in homicide cases. especially where there is video evidence. >> if you or i were on videotape putting our arm around someone's neck, and that person then said i can't breathe, we sat on them, we died, we would be indicted in 30 seconds, and the grand jury would take no more than a day, possibly two. >> reporter: the difference here says howell and other legal experts is that the potential defendant, daniel panaleo was a police officer. he was the one who used a choke hold to subdue garner.

>> how has the prosecutor's perspective shift when it's a police officer accused as opposed to a civilian accused? >> ideally it doesn't. unfortunately, prosecutors work with police officers as witnesses in just about every case. they collaborate a lot. when a prosecutor seeks an indictment for a police officer, they don't necessarily want that indictment. >> reporter: in effect, says howell, prosecutors use grand juries as a shield to give the public an impression that the grand jury is making a decision when, in fact, the prosecutor usually leads the panel to the conclusion the prosecutor glance 9% they'lwants. >> generally they seek indictments in places where they want indictments. >> when prosecutor said he would take it to the grand jury.

he said i will go wherever the evidence takes me without fear or favor. >> they say a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich. >> according to the evidence on staten island, the evidence hold no, sir police officers accountable for eric garner's death. the other officers present were not targeted in the grand jury investigation in new york and around the country. police officers have broad discretion in the use of deadly force in the performance of their duties. >> randall pinkston for us. thank you. we'll continue watching reaction to this grand jury decision. a look at the site of the whole incident. paul beban there. the latest as it comes in. and throughout the evening here and a check of other news making headlines in this country and around the world. that's next.

>> secretary of state john kerry said that the u.s.-led coalition against isil is making strides but a lot of work is left to do. he met with top diplomats from coalition nations today. they have launched more than a thousand airstrikes against isil, but those on the ground still do not see enough progress. we have more now from brussels. >> the assertion that they're making process begins isil is treated with skepticism here as

they wait for the next attack. the small team of doctors and nurses providing the only remaining medical services in the syrian border town of kobane is preparing for a new surge of admissions as fighting intensifies. a similar aid station is all that is left after a tour of kobane's three medical facilities were destroyed when isil attacked the town in mid-september. injured from the coalition of kurdish and free syrian fighters who have been holding isil at bay receive treatment mere. >> from now the situation in kobane permits we'll find other places to hospitalize the injured because we know the number will increase, more injured will come. we have to be ready. >> the coalition meeting here in brussels insists it's making progress in its military operations cutting off finance and supplies as well as the flow of fighters to isil. but there is a long way to go as

the u.s. secretary of state admitted. >> we have made already significant progress in two and a half months. but we also acknowledge there is a lot more work yet to be done. daesh is still perpetrating terrible crimes. but there was a consensus that the momentum, which it had exhibited two and a half months ago, has been halted. >> mr. kerry refused to comment on reports that iran had felony a bombing mission against isil over iraq. the iraqi prime minister, who was also here, spoke of isil's global threat. >> the challenge we're facing is not only a challenge from police but a challenge to the whole world. this is the most criminal

organization committing atroci atrocities, and we have to stop them. >> the medics in kobane don't need to be told how urgent that task is. tim friend, al jazeera, brussels. >> a suicide-bomber attacked the iranian ambassador's home in sanaa today. the driver drove the car up to the residents and detonated it. the ambassador fine but three were killed and others badly injured. the al-qaeda faction has taken responsibility. the sunni fighters say they think iran has been supporting shia houthi rebels, who have been control of the capitol since september. up next we'll get back to our top story here on al jazeera america. a grand jury decides not to indict in the case of eric garner. a black man who decide after a

white police officer put him in a choke hold. protesters are on the move across new york city at this hour. and in washington attorney general eric holder is expected to address the case. we'll have that for you live at the top of the hour. with real money from ali velshi.

>> you mentioned blockades. talk to us about the police presence. how many officers do you see? what kind of a presence do you see? how would you describe it? >> well, there are police officers all over the place. but it's hard to tell if they were--if they were here any way

because this is the christmas tree.. >> tonight new york city is on edge after a grand jury decided against indicting a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man. eric garner, you're tuning in to special coverage here on al jazeera america. at the time when america is gripped by the shooting