District Attorneys across New York are pushing back against Governor Cuomo's appointment of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to act as a special prosecutor in cases of police killing unarmed civilians.
The governor says it's a perception problem, that there is a perception cops are close to prosecutors and there might not be the prosecutorial push there should be.
"I don't base my decisions based upon feelings or opinions, my actions are based upon facts.," refuted Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita, who says his office has prosecuted cops in the past.
"Even if you read the governor's remarks and the attorney general's remarks, they keep saying well we trust DAs, DAs are okay but this a crisis in the perception or crisis in the feeling of public confidence in the criminal justice system."
Sedita considers those arguments to be nonsense.
"We're not about to prosecute a police officer because a political activist wants us to or a mob wants us to. That would be crazy," Sedita said.
"That's what they did in the seventeenth century in Salem, Massachusetts. We don't do that kind of stuff in the United States of America."
