prosecutor Michael Donovan in New York on
Staten Island I guess the borough deciding to do
essentially the same thing that Obama call it did in Ferguson which is present
the defense for the police officer to the grand jury
at the same time that your present in what might be prosecution
evidence has a lot of people
a this that see this is why back has a lot people you know really outraged
and and and and and deeply so and
appropriately so and this is why I back
you know couple weeks ago or I i lose track a time but
you know a while ago when the when the Michael Brown non verdict or the non
indictment came down
it all there was of course this move to say
and and in fact Michael Brown family calling for body cameras on cops well
you know number one here we have actual video of
the murder this up this fall you know where governors murder is on videotape
including mean after he has stopped breathing
and his unconscious and is presumably well on his way to dead
yet he has just stopped breathing the cops rolling over and
nobody decides to try a CPR on I mean that's mind boggling to me
so any I might my point was that
you know their body cameras as you know arguably a nice first app with you know
we've seen this with the
with the dash cams and police cars I think if you gonna do that
you have to put some teeth into it you have to say that
if a police officer's body camera did not record an incident where police
officer
is being charged with a crime the police officer is no longer entitled to the
presumption of innocence
which is how it works when you refuse a breathalyzer when you're pulled over by
the police right now
you say no I'm not gonna blow into that too for whatever that contraption
I then you are presumed guilty in you must demonstrate your innocence
and if a police officer says no I don't have video of my interaction with that
guy
is presumed guilty and yes to demonstrate his innocence
this who did this go a long way you know in number one toward
encouraging the use of cameras but to
you know be cleaning up some other stuff are criminal justice is so
a at pointed that out but you know I said you know the the body cameras are
panacea they're gonna solve all problems
what are some other things we should be looking at
well number one and and this has been my rant from day one
it's crazy that a prosecutor who literally depends on the police
department to do his job
every single day and the cops are
PO dat at this prosecutor and they start you know
via testified in ways they can throw cases for him and he had his conviction
rate starts collapse in
is going to be a prosecutor very much longer I mean this isn't just like you
know relying on your
you known not ratting out your your fella people at work because
you know somebody treated you poorly or spoke badly this cuz baby on that
I the police actually have the power
simply by you know when they get up on the stand saying well I think I saw that
ball micaceous blows up right and if a prosecutor suddenly has hostile police
is gonna lose his job so he's got
to be on the side of the Cubs and therefore the prosecutor
and a grand jury hoop also you know we're handing the work in love with the
police
they should not be investigating each other the prosecutor the grand jury
should not be investigating the police the
it needs to be an independent special prosecutor appointed
what from outta town before
a group of citizens who are not on in on an ongoing day-to-day relationship with
the police
whenever a police officer is charged with a crime
or whenever they're at the very least I mean this is
the very high as part at the very least whenever anybody dies
at the hands a police but I would go beyond that I was so whenever
whenever a civilian whenever a citizen asserts that a police
officer or police department I mean this is there a number cops involved in the
take down a burger
who arguably are all guilty of homicide
or participating in homicide if you participate in a crime
you are and even though you're not the guy pulled the trigger or did the choke
or you're still part of the guilty
you know you in three for if you drive the getaway car for somebody robs a bank
in kills the bank card in the process you can be prosecuted for murder
even though you never got the car so you know this concept is
is pretty straightforward and by the way here's the ultimate irony
and this was over at
other what website or its Raw Story
rush to republish this here's the headline says it all a New York Police
Department cop NYPD cop which ok there governor was not indicted that the man
who recorded the incident to go videotaped it
he was indicted granger teacher
it presented an indictment for him they said
had a police they had an that he added unloaded gun
and that he had stuff that inside the waistband of a 17-year-old to get to get
rid of it
he says that they Trump this up in retaliation for his videotape in
these cops killing this the sea is so young man this father of six
we gotta do something about this
and and and frankly white people in white liberals have been too silent on
this for too long
you know life is comfortable for white people in this country by and large
its white privilege
so I'm not on the conservative side you get conservatives who they just don't
like change their sit around on a you know a slow start up
with upset the apple cart things if I know where they are
and then you got liberals on the other side go on
but doesn't seem so bad to me home
white liberals who live in the home white world by and large don't
guilty you just don't
so we'll need to wake the hell speaking to
white people we only go