People want to have faith in the system and know that if an officer takes a life that there is some level of accountability and people are not feeling that they -- that is happening.
Antonio French: “People want to have faith in the system and know that if an officer takes a life that there is some level of…”
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Antonio French discusses the public's demand for accountability in police actions following a controversial verdict.
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I think that the attorney general went out of his way to present both the Department of Justice report, and he is right that there was not a prosecutable case under federal law which is a much higher threshold.
Those aren't protesters. Those are opportunistic criminals and they should not be included in the group.
I think the next step here is to start healing somebody's wounds, start getting some of these folks especially in Ferguson involved politically and start getting representation in the government.
I think it's big. You know, folks have lost so much faith in the local prosecutor and the local police department. That folks really want to see the federal government take a role in this. And by the attorney general coming himself, it…





