De Blasio Ignores Question About Why Cop Who Killed Eric Garner Is Still on City Payroll

RUSH EXCERPT:

LEMON: “Mayor de Blasio? Mayor de Blasio, why is that police officer still on the force, the one who killed Eric Garner. Please respond?”

de BLASIO: “I know the garner family, they’ve gone through extraordinary pain. They’re waiting for justice and they’re going to get justice. There’s going to be justice. I have confidence in that. In the next 30 days in New York, you know why, because for the first time we are not waiting on the federal Justice Department which told the city of New York that we could not proceed because the Justice Department was pursuing their prosecution. And years went by and a lot of the pain accrued. And what I’m working on there will never be another tragedy because we’re changing fundamentally how we police. There’s one last thing I have to say about the Justice Department. The vice president for 2 1/2 of those years, Mr. Vice president, tell us what did you do to try and spur on the Justice Department to act in the garner case?”