i felt no compassion, no anything from staten island besides the people on staten island. as far as the police and the d.a., there was no sincerity in his eyes from day one. >> people from staten island and beyond came out in droves. protesters in times square chanting "i can't breathe," one of the last phrases eric garner uttered before he died. they also revived a simple but powerful slogan from ferguson "black lives matter." >> mayor bill de blasio echoed that same sentiment after the grand jury decision was announced. >> they've said black lives matter. they said it because it had to be said. it's a phrase that should never have to be said. it should be self-evident. but our history sadly requires us to say that black lives matter. >> what a difference in terms of empathy in new york city and what we saw in ferguson. that's an aside. joining us michael skull nick, editor and chief of globalgrind.com and joe hicks, vice president of community advocates, incorporated. michael, black lives matter. i find it to be such a compelling mantra in some ways. you were on the stre

what's been the reaction in staten island tonight? >> so i'm standing just several yards from where eric garner died in that june -- that july day. unlike some of the other protest, it hasn't been raucous here. it hasn't been overly angry, but there's a feeling that there's a weight and hopelessness. folks who had not necessarily expected there would be an indictment but there was always hope that there would be an indictment. i spoke to a young man named aaron who looked me in the eye and said, where do we go from here? what can we do? even when it's on video and an officer is seen choking a man, we can't get justice there. if not here, then when? that's the sense. when you talk to folks on the ground, there's kind of a confusion. they don't understand, one, how this officer could not be indicted but then couple that with the mike brown situation, the john crawford situation, the 12-year-old shot with a toy gun. and all comes together in that kind of sense of do black lives matter? that kind of familiar chant we've heard over and ove

tom fuentes still with us, as is debbie rose, the staten island, new york, city council member. get your thought, debbie rose, you and i were talking about what eric garner was doing that resulted in this takedown and the attempted arrest on the streets of staten island that caused this uproar. you say he was not trying to sell cigarettes on that day? >> wolf, i think it's very important that we clarify at this point, eric garner was not engaged in any activity, he was not selling loose cigarettes at that moment. he was not engaged in any criminality. he had just crossed the street from breaking up a fight with two young people. and when the police approached him, he was not selling loose cigarettes. he had a history and they knew him and a record of selling loose cigarettes, but he was not at that time engaged in that activity. >> because he did have, what, 30 arrests over several years, right? >> yes. yes, he did. and so -- >> relatively minor charges, selling cigarettes without taxes, stuff like that. >> it's certainly not -- it doesn't warrant being killed over selling loose

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

but that particular neighborhood of staten island is close to the ferry. it's close to access to new york city, and there are a lot of african-americans in that community. so though the rest of the island is very suburban, this is an area where there are apartments and that area has some of the same crime problems that other areas in new york. i don't know if we should go too far to maker tha make that distinction, but that is audients lens than had this happened in brooklyn or the bronx. >> chief aziz, you said that the idea that there is this video, and you can see what happened, when you looked at that, what did you think the outcome was going to be? did you think we would end up having this conversation today about having no indictment? >> no, i thought for sure that there would be an indictment that was surely a reckless--again, i haven't spoken with any officer, white or black, who thought it wasn't. and in the context of officers all over the nation who i speak with almost daily. now the video spoke for itself. it was very clear. what i looked at was

a lot of cops live in staten island. so remember, the grand jury and we don't know its composition specifically, but it was certainly drawn from staten island, and i think the sort of more white, more cop-friendly environment of staten island may have had something to do with how -- with why this case came out. >> well, sure. we all remember from 9/11 how many heroes of 9/11 the police officers and fire department officials lived in those outer boroughs such as staten island and i guess i'm just wondering, i'm not familiar with the evidence in this case like everyone else who is not on the grand jury, but that videotape is very stunning. there must be more that i'm not comprehending, jeffrey. obviously, this was a very large man, but he doesn't appear to be threaten the officers in any way. what possible reason could there be for there -- for the grand jury to reach a conclusion it did? >> well, just to play out what -- >> this is clearly just devil's advocate please. what the officer's lawyers and supporters have said t

you're looking live at staten island, new york.ence this very hour from the city's mayor bill de blasio. after a new york city was just cleared of the choke hold death of eric garner. the officer, his wiwas white, t victim black. sadly you know the drill. as you might expect, the incident is already drawing comparisons to the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. the big difference this theme racial. we saw huge protests there now worried we could be seeing the

in the eric garner case, in the staten island case, there was video.hat appeared to many people to be quite damming video that resulted, there was video in this case. the video wasn't shot by police cameras, it was shot by a bystander whose commentary made clear he did not approve of the way police officers were handling that interaction with eric garner. but in this case, in this he think did, the existence of the video showing the killing was not enough to convince the grand jury that there was any need for a trial in this case. when the widow of eric garner was first told of the grand jury's decision today, the decision to not charge known in the death of her husband, her first words in response were, oh, my god, are you serious? she then said you can see in the video that the police officer was dead wrong. esaw garner is her name. she is eric garner's widow. she told the new york daily news right after she heard about the announcement today. the grand jury kept interviewing witnesses but you didn't need witnesses. you can be a witness for yourself,

still to come on the newshour, race and justice in staten island, and across the nation. the rise of reports of sexual assaults in the military. how the kremlin uses reality tv in russia to promote politics. silicon valley moves south, as more tech start-ups set up in los angeles. plus, poet claudia rankine's urgent verse on race and politics. >> ifill: the uproar over another grand jury's decision not to indict is making itself felt coast to coast. we start in staten island, where eric garner lived and died, and where members of the grand jury reside. the borough is also home to many of the city's police officers and fire fighters. newshour correspondent william brangham takes us there. while protests of outrage emerge across the country, and in different parts of new york city, staten island, where eric garner died, is relatively quiet. that's because this borough of nearly half a million residents is not like the rest of new york. james cohen teaches criminal law at fordham university in new york. >> staten island is part of new york city, but in many respects it is un

today staten island grand jury decided not to indict the police officer of garner.e allegations of garner selling tax-free loose cigarettes or

. >> debi rose from staten island, thank you for joining us. cedrick alexander, police chief, from dekalb, georgia, thank you. for viewers in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> i'll take it from here. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. both new york's mayor bill de blasio and attorney general eric holder speaking any moment now on frustration and anger and tense times sweeping the nation right now. police violence against minorities. >> i can't breathe. >> i can't breathe. >> this is a video from social media shows one of the many demonstrations nationwide just within the last 24 hours after that staten island grand jury did not indict the police officer accused in the july death of eric garner. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> 11 times you hear eric garner saying i can't breathe. as these officers surrounded him, restrained him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, which was illegal. the 43-year-old father of six died en route to the hospital according to police a

thank you very much from staten island.ate you being here. >> thank you. >> i want to come back to the table, faith. we end where we began. we talked earlier before we knew this decision about the elements that were before the grand jury, the videotape, the fact that the coroner did rule that this on july 17th was a compression of the neck that contributed to or was the primary cause, in fact, of this man. as a legal matter, what are the implications for the country, for society at large, if it does not appear possible in a case like this just to get an indictment? >> what does it take, right? now we have this video. we know the circumstances. and we know about this police officer. he went in and testified. what does it take for a grand jury just to get passed the threshold step of probable cause to indict a police officer when there is wrongdoing. i can tell you two things that need to happen, joy, in the wake of ferguson, i don't believe police departments should be allowed to investigate themselves. when a police officer

the case that happened on staten island several months ago. a staten island grand jury voted not to bring criminal charges in the death of eric garner. he died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer caught on tape. and video we've shown you many times. it was caught on tape. officer that performed the chokehold daniel pantaleo gave testimony to the staten island grand jury, an autopsy had been conducted on eric garner by the city's medical examiner and they ruled it a homicide, resulting from that chokehold and the compression of his chest, and in the video you can hear mr. garner say i can't breathe, i can't breathe. i can tell you from firsthand knowledge because i was watching the protests, many were saying yes, indeed, i can't breathe, they were chanting i can't breathe. anyway. i'm being told that we're waiting for any moment now, attorney general eric holder, u.s. attorney general eric holder, the live shot at d.o.j. fox news confirming that eric holder is going to announce a civil rights investigation into the death

this one here in staten island.on the first piece it is as clear as day, as clear as the blue as the blue sky, there should have been some serious charges brought based solely on what we've seen in terms of the evidence. there no -- it's a shocking decision from a legal perspective. but the other piece of it is important as well, which is that i understand donovan, the prosecutor, submitted the evidence in very much the same way that happened in ferguson. which is rather than doing his job and securing an indictment, which is what prosecutors are paid to do, he put the evidence out there, built-in opportunities -- >> even if that's true -- >> it is true. >> okay. let's assume that's the case and he did that in your argument inappropriately. why couldn't that be a prosecutor trying to give a cop the benefit of the doubt? why does it have to be about race? >> this is my point. it is about the prosecutor given the cop the benefit of the doubt. it is -- >> why wouldn't he have done that for a black cop if it had been a

and there are about 500,000 people on staten island, are white. that's twice as high as the percentage of the white population across new york city's five burr borrows. the lack community is most north eastern part of the borough where eric garn he tied. this is the most politically conservative borough and has the highest average median income of the five burrows in new york city. >> interesting. >>> since the news broke last night people have been sharing their stories of police en counters. inning he is joins us with more on that. >> two hashtags illustrate the contrast in the stories. alive while black, african americans describing their encounters. crossing the street cops stopped to ask me what i was doing there. i was holding grocery bags. and groove saying walking to the library campus security stops me and asks for i.d. several times, claims like i don't look like a law student students. and jazz saying my car stolen and i was asked, well, was it really your car. alive while black started in response to a #called criming while white. basi

back to you. >> let's go, you're out on staten island. give as you sense of what's going on right now. >> reporter: right behind me, just yards from where i stand right now is where eric garner died. i spoke with his father for a few minutes. he stood on the periphery of a bosnia teem and he told me he was tired. hike the movement and those supporting his family, he said he is there to march with them. not just today but tomorrow. the overall sense was that he was tired. tired of answering questions from the media about how he feels. a tired of this wait until the grand jury announcement came out today. also tired of not getting justice. i spoke with others who said it isn't just the one officer who should face some pun he shallment. a system that includes the broken windows policy. they say it is overpolicing and aggressive policing. eric garner was initially confronted because he was selling loose untaxed cigarettes. allegedly. so you don't have the angry chanting but there is hurt. a weight on their shoulders. as one young person said,

remember, this is staten island. outside of new york, most people don't know the politics of new york. staten island is the smallest, whitest and most conservative of the five boroughs of new york. he answers only to the voters of staten island. he is not someone looking to ingratiate himself with the civil rights leadership, the al sharptons of world. he has a conservative electorate including many cops who live in staten island. so of all. >> 23 non-white african-american and hispanic. >> more diverse than i would have expected. >> you still have to get that majority. >> i'm sorry, eric garnspeaking. let's listen. >> he should be here celebrating thanksgiving and christmas with his children and grandchildren and he can't. why? because a cop did wrong. somebody that get paid to do right did wrong and he's not held accountable for it but my husband's death will not be in vain. as long as i have a breath in my body, i will fight until the end. thank you. >> may we hear from the mother of eric garner? >> good evening,

there's a call to go to staten island.here's a call to go to the christmas tree lighting in rockefeller center. we'll march peacefully. let's be very clear. we will march peacefully. we have the protection. i was with the mayor on monday in d.c. in the meeting with the president. the mayor promised us that we will allow us to march peacefully through the industry and i trust he will. he's done an incredible job trying to reform this police department the first ten months in office and i respect that man. he has a long way to go to fix these problems of nypd. what we saw today on staten island, is an injustice. the president is asking for 55,000 new body cameras. it's not enough. we saw this death on camera. we need a lot more than body cameras. folks will march in the city tonight. i will join them proudly. we'll march peacefully. >> you said your twitter feed is full of pain. >> it is full of pain. that's really what we're seeing illustrated in the marching, in the rioting. it's misdirected pain. it's not right. but that'

we are in staten island. it's fairly remote. we're half mile away from where the mayor and community leaders are speaking. we've been hearing from them just a moment ago. occasional person, there may be a call for agitation, and then another person will come and calm that person down. there may be 50 at the moment, not a big scene here. if there is a large presenc police presence here, they're standing off. maybe in the far corners of the area thatber' in, but a calm presence here tonight. >> that's interesting. roxana saberi shared the same thing. at the moment there is not a large police presence around times square and you're saying the same thing. people being allowed to gather without a big police presence obviously not present. >> reporter: yes, as i was saying if they are here one would have to think that they are, they are not making their presence felt. it is a stand off kind of situation where we see the occasional squad car go through the far side of the intersection , but we're in a pedestrian section off a retail co

staten island the scene of garner's arrest.se of a choke hold subdue him led to his death. crowds of demonstrators calling for reform of police tactics and train. the crowd noticeably diverse, black, white, young and old together. huge protests in manhattan, bigger than those in recent memories with protesters seemingly better organized, blocking traffic and roads, bridges and tunnels, once again tying midtown up in knots. police, it seems, though, even better organized, moving those crowds through times square. alexandra field standing by live in times square with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: hey, there, good morning, christine. no question about it, these protests gained momentum in their second night and garnered more attention. that has to do with where they're happening. right here in times square. along the west side highway, on the brooklyn bridge where traffic was also being stopped. these protests happening in at least three boroughs overnight from manhattan to brooklyn where there was a so-called die-in whic

>> yes. >> your response to this decision from the staten island grand jury?rst of all, i think it's a tragic event. i think the grand jury saw evidence that obviously you did not see and they heard testimony we did not hear. i think there are two important points to focus on that jeff just talked about. one of which is the crime itself. i know there's a lot of people out there that would say as jeff did, this was a very minor crime. the problem is the police officer, when he's effecting an arrest, he doesn't have the ability to say this is a minor crime so i'm going to arrest in a different way. i'm going to do something differently. once that police officer says your under arrest, you're obligated to comply with that arrest and obviously mr. gardner based on the tape did not comply. he resisted. that resisted escalated into a position where the officers affected a restraining hold that turneded into a choke hold if you will or whatever they want to call it and this man died while he was resisting arrest. it's unfortunate. it happens. the other thing that jef

joining me from staten island germane lee. after everything we went through over ferguson where there were disputed facts, many say, but here on videotape the entire incident captured. what are people saying there today? >> there's so much spillover from yesterday's announcement. hours after the announcements began to spread, word of the announcement began to spread, i stood here just several feet from where eric garner was killed with about a dozen young men and two of them said, you know what, there seems like two different worlds here and two different criminal justice systems that operate differently for black americans and everyone else. earlier this morning eric garner's mother came out here and thanked all the supporters here in new york and else where and felt there is a movement and eric garner's name will be remembered and from all that early frustration and anger over nonindictment in the killing of eric garner there is a sense that people are willing and looking to move forward in protests and in raising the names

fox's sharon crowley is live on staten island where garner lived.charr reason what's the scene like there tonight? >> reporter: actually here in staten island it's very peacef peaceful. there's only been a small group of demonstrators out here and actually friends of eric garner this is a place he hung out on staten island and we are in front of the place where that choke hold occurred and there has been candle light -- candles and memorials actually since august. but people have been gathering there peacefully for hours and they're very upset. they don't feel justice was done. candles light up the spot where new york city toe police officer put staten island resident eric garner a deadly choke hold after stopping him for a misdemeanor here in august. staten island resident jim is upset a grand jury decided not to indict the officer. >> i was very hur. i knew eric garner. came to my job every day for cfk taco bell every day and he was a sweetheart. kind guy. >> she brought her young son to see a small crowd of protesters here people like staten isla

tonight's" sarah hoye reporting from staten island. there are concerns about protests at the rockefeller center where the annual christmas tree lighting is taking place and also protests on the west highway, keeping eye on those things. as we're reporting on "america tonight" a number of deaths involving officers over the last few years, have widened the gap between police and communities of color. police shot john crawford in the aisle of a walmart, ha he had an air rifle in his hand. and just a few days ago, 12-year-old tamir rice, officer shot rice within two seconds after he arrived on the scene. it's a series of incidents that have shaken the faith of minority communities all across the country, and the officers who have sworn to protect them. noel leader is a former nypd officer, the co-founder of 1,000 blacks. >> our organization have stated for years that whenever you have a police shooting like this there ought to be a special prosecutor that takes over the prosecution of the police officer. we've observed repeatedly over the

she's on staten island this sarah. >> that's right, good evening joie. i'm standing feet away from where eric garner took his last breath. earlier a small gathering happened where people once again believed another man died at the hands of police. it started with a routine patrol on staten island. >> leave me alone. >> police accusing eric garner of selling cigarettes illegally. they tried to arrest him. a nearby cell phone rolling capturing the last seven minutes of his life. garner was held in what appeared to be a choke hold. police tactic that's been banned in new york for more than 20 years. >> back off and get on my side, okay? back up. >> the new york medical examiner later called it a homicide citing compression of his neck and chest and the positioning of his body both caused by restraight by police. >> none of your business! >> garner also had a history of asthma and heart disease contributing factors according to the final autopsy. with eight police officers, two thole eric garner's death. >> some of you may have heard, there was a decision th

. >> there will be no indictment in the apparent chokehold death of staten island man eric garner. >> what kind of nonsense is that? >> are they looking at the same video the rest of the world is looking at? >> the it's a painful day for so many new yorkers. >> he's heard repeatedly telling officers i can't breathe, i can't breathe. >> the death was ruled a homicide by the coroner's officer. >> it's totally incomprehensible. >> there ought to be an indictment>> it's very hard to look at that and say no probable cause. >> here we have video, what else does it take? >> we've got a problem that america has to confront. >> if ferguson was not a wake-up call this case better be. >> the justice department will proceed with a federal civil rights situation. >> this is an issue we've been dealing with for too long and it's time for us to make more progress than ewe've made. >> tonight, protests against the decision. >> crowds of protesters gathering. >> some of them without a block of the rockefeller christmas tree. >> at grand central station, a so-called die-in. >> police are embraced for e

words of eric garner before he died after being placed in a police chokehold on the streets of staten island new york in july. last night protesters took to the streets chanting the same words as a grand jury cleared the police officer in the case. the justice department has now launched a federal investigation. >> if you are choking a man who is down with other police helping and covering over him, even if the guidelines don't kick in your mind, even if the law don't kick on your mind, after 11 times of "i can't breathe," when does your humanity kick in? >> today, conversation, we bring you graham weatherspoon them retired police detective, and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the justice department has announced it will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of eric garner after grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer for causing his death. garner, an african-american father of six, as well as a grant -- grand father, died a

>> breaking news out of staten island here in new york, gretchen. a grand jury has just decided not to indict a new york city police officer over the death of eric garner. here's the back story. people here in the tri-state region know it well. for the rest of you around the country and -- back in july this officer put gardener into a choke hold when cops were attempting to arrest him for illegally selling cigarettes on the street of staten island. keep in mind they call him loosy sales around here. loose cigarettes. cigarettes cost on average about $16 a pack in new york city in the five boroughs. at any bodega you can buy a sfwret for $1 or so. this man was selling loosies as they call them, and a number of police officers surrounded him. he resisted arrest, and there's videotape of it. he tried not to be arrested. eventually in this videotape you'll see one of the police officers, the one with a number on his shirt, take down this officer. now, keep in mind this choke hold move is something that at one point law enforcement officers were taught.

and what is the mood in staten island today? of spilling over from last night when word of the announcement kind of spread through this community. there's not so much shock as many people around the city and around the country have expressed in different ways. there's

what we saw in staten island is an example of police gone awry. >> it's absolutely not.hat it is is police officers responding to the community who called and said there was a problem there. the problem in this particular case is that mr. garner decided to resist arrest rather than comply with the police officer. and resisting arrest leads to struggle. struggle unfortunately leads to a tragedy. it's not about racism. it's about your behavior. it's about what you're doing and what the community is calling the police about. >> what did you make of the president speaking about his experience growing up as a biracial young man, eric holder has spoken about that in the context of these two cases, and mayor de blasio talked about advising his son to essentially be wary of the new york city police force given his biracial -- given that he is biracial. >> what they also should be explaining to your sons and we should explain to all our sons and daughters is that's the police who stand between you and the criminals. what we should teach our children to be afraid of is the crimina

from the beginning, i had no faith in staten island prosecuting anybody from staten island. you know, i just didn't have any type of encouragement, you know, i felt no remorse. i felt no compassion, no anything from staten island. >> msnbc trymaine lee joins me from the site where eric garner died in staten island, new york. thank you for joining me. fast forward to what's planned today. there are on-going protests, including #thisstopsnowtoday, expected at one of the sites in the city. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: organizers are developing plans of action, how to respond to nonindictment of the officer that killed eric garner. there's a big protest in foley square, under the banner this stops today. harkening back to words he said before he was killed, this stops today. they have a list of demands. full accountability for officers that killed eric garner. they want the police department to eliminate broken windows policing. they want changes to the way the police investigate themselves when these situations happen. and just about an hour ago, eric garner's

it happened in staten island. successfully. >> i hear the same story over and over again from my conservative friends -- >> -- walkie-talkie waiting at night -- >> a police scanner -- that you're like a trial lawyer that's, like, advertising. it's not the case. >> and we get nothing with this. we have nothing to do with lawsuits, nothing. >> -- calls from the families. there's other stuff you do you don't talk about that this happens because families pick up the phone and they call you because they need help. >> and let me say this, you catch flack from me and my friend and vice versa and we disagreed and you've -- before congress and we've talked about it -- >> you remember that -- willie, that was a -- >> if america can see that you and i can say, i vehemently disagree on this but i'll come together on this, that's what makes the country work. no one is trying to destroy the country. there's a different between anarchists and activists. they don't care about eric garner's family. activists are saying we want to

district attorney dan donovan has declined to file to do the same to staten island. a judge today issuing a very cursory summary of the findings there. we know there were 50 witnesses, 22 of whom were civilians, arrests, cops, and doctors. jurors saw 60 exhibits including four videos and that grand jury sat for nine weeks. we did, however, get a little glimpse into the proceedings from one of the most key witnesses in the whole affair, that's ramsey orton. that is the man who filmed the now infamous video of eric garner yelping "i can't breathe, i can't breathe," as he has a chokehold placed around his neck. mr. orta in an interview with the "daily news" said he went to the grand jury expecting he would be testifying for hours and instead testified for about ten minutes. nobody on the grand jury was even paying attention to what i had to say, he told the daily news. people were on their phones. people were talking. also, a lot of backlash today against the officer in question, who has escaped criminal indictment. daniel pantaleo. mr. pantaleo was sued earlier this ye

it all started when garner was stopped on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes on staten island in new york back in july. and officer pantaleo was caught on tape putting him in a headlock. watch this. >> i'm minding my business, officer. i'm minding my business. please just leave me alone. i told you the last time, please just leave me alone. don't touch me. don't touch me. >> put your hand behind your back. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> once the decision was announced, protest erupted in new york city. take a look. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! i can't breathe! i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> we want a public trial. we want a public trial. we want a public trial. >> and just about two hours ago the family of eric garner attended a press conference with none other than the rev rand al sharpton. he's at it again. take a look. >> how many people have to die before people understand this is not an illusion. this is a reality that america has got to come to terms with. and no amount o

you're looking live at staten island, new york. we're expecting a news conference this very hour from the city's mayor bill de blasio. after a new york city was just cleared of the choke hold death of eric garner. the officer, his wiwas white, t victim black. sadly you know the drill. as you might expect, the incident is already drawing comparisons to the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. the big difference this theme racial. we saw huge protests there now worried we could be seeing the same thing in new york city where as coincidence and maybe weird luck would have it, they're planning to light the rockefeller christmas tree, one of the city's biggest tourist attractions. >>> rod wheeler on whether the fears are justified. >> i think they are, neil. why do i say that? there's a number of people, let's face it, across the country very upset and frustrated and disappointed with our criminal justice system. whether or not we agree or believe that officer darren wilson in ferguson should have been indicted or not