Mika: S.C. Shooting ‘Clearly Shows How Comfortable’ Cops Are Killing Black People

‘It will be assumed somehow something went wrong and there will be an acquittal’

BARNICLE: "The depressing thing about this is not only the way this fellow was murdered by a police officer -- I mean the shot grouping, pistol range, the stance the cop was taking. But the repercussions of it and what it does to police-community relations as you indicated across the country." 
SCARBOROUGH: "Yeah. Across the country." 
BRZEZINSKI: "Absolutely. Hurt our country in so many ways but also it clearly shows how comfortable cops feel doing this because they know they can get away with it. There's a sense of knowledge that it will be assumed that somehow something went wrong and there will be an acquittal."
SCARBOROUGH: "You say cops. Really, we have to say really, really bad cops."
BRZEZINSKI: "Bad cops."
SCARBOROUGH: "A small number of cops."
BRZEZINSKI: "But on black suspects. That's the problem. When you hear from the mother, she is done with this and wants it to stop. And to your point --"
SCARBOROUGH: "And by the way, The New York Times, their lead story today talks about how citizens videos raise questions on police claims; fatal shooting in North Carolina reigniting debates on force."
BRZEZINSKI: "Yes. And to your point about Eric Garner, well, it was different because you could argue different points and study choke holds. What we could have seen and maybe what we have seen  now that we are evolving a little bit as a society is a police chief, local officials, politicians coming out saying it looks wrong. We are going to look into it. It looks wrong. We are very worried about what we are seeing."

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