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No, they followed orders to crackdown on untaxed cigarettes, This led to overenforcement and someone ending up dead over loose cigarettes.
NYPD No. 3's order over loose smokes led to Garner chokehold death - NY Daily News
I havent seen the autopsy. If you believe Wikipedia, then yes, the official cause of death was cardiac arrest. The ME released a statement indication all of those weight related conditions contributed. Now me...I'd love to see the full uncensored coroners report.And the autopsy report?
Did it show he died of a heart attack?
In the videos i posted last page back i wonder why a cop can take the time to flush out the eyes of a kung fu guy charging at them and make sure hes ok. But the cops cant attempt to resuscitate the fat guy after using greater force than in the kung fu situation? Do people really hate fat people that much? Its because some of these ****in cops walk around thinking that these people are scum. And they dont care.To a fat man, tying his shoes is a risky proposition. Probably not wise to resist arrest...especially not for a man with 30 prior arrests.
No - someone ended up dead for resisting arrest.
Had Eric Garner complied with the lawful detention the police attempted to enforce, he'd be alive today, likely out on bail again, likely breaking some other laws, and likely enjoying a nice lunch, it being lunch time in NYC now.
You DO understand the exertion shown in ANY of those videos is just as likely if not more so have caused Garner a heart attack then being grabbed by the neck and put to the ground...right?
"neck and chest compression" is NOT a cause of death, any more so than the oft repeated foolishness about 'homicide' being the cause of death.Emphasis on the word contributing. The coroner called the primary causes neck and chest compression. That makes your statement factually incorrect.
That's fine, One can't really state then something is against the law then and not be able to state the actual law being broken with authority. There is nothing in what you linked that addressed the fine for unlicences individuals selling untaxed loose cigarettes.
That was my point.
It also brings us back to it's about tax, he was arrested for suspicion of having and selling cigarettes that weren't paid the tax on./
I also brought up the possibility of a state law that is mentioned. but the actual law this man broke is still elusive.
Well, to be fair, virtually every bylaw in a city, particularly one the size of NYC, is based in some form or another on taxes and penalties. It's how cities keep from going bankrupt. And the vast majority of city residence would prefer that those who break bylaws pay than have their property and business taxes rise higher.
Well, to be fair, virtually every bylaw in a city, particularly one the size of NYC, is based in some form or another on taxes and penalties. It's how cities keep from going bankrupt. And the vast majority of city residence would prefer that those who break bylaws pay than have their property and business taxes rise higher.
Oh bull****, the cops jumped on him so quickly he didn't have time to resist.
lawful detention. Can you articulate the reasonable suspicion for his detainment?
But one also has to weigh the amount of pressure that was applied. Garner did not die of asphyxiation, and the preliminary autopsy showed no damage to Garner’s windpipe or neck bones. However, a man in such poor health with acute asthma, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity it wouldn't take a whole lot of pressure to cut the man's wind off.
It's not BS at all. If a police officer tries to pull over a car for speeding and the driver takes off, smashing into a tree and killing himself, was the driver killed for speeding?
As for the lawful detention - that's for the police officer or the police department to defend, not me. As far as I'm concerned, if a police officer, carrying out his/her duties, says you've committed a crime and I'm taking you in, that's a lawful detention until such time as a judge or court rules otherwise. Citizens on the street don't get to determine what's legal or not in our society. If they did, we wouldn't have a society, we'd have chaos.
In the videos i posted last page back i wonder why a cop can take the time to flush out the eyes of a kung fu guy charging at them and make sure hes ok. But the cops cant attempt to resuscitate the fat guy after using greater force than in the kung fu situation? Do people really hate fat people that much? Its because some of these ****in cops walk around thinking that these people are scum. And they dont care.
Your earlier point, unless I am confusing you with another is that this wasn't due to a tax issue of selling untaxed cigarettes.
They have effectively killed the spirit of capatilism and free market with how they have it set up. If they have mandated minimum pricing that you have to sell the cigerettes for... That totally kills the possibility of someone starting a local indoor, super effecient, cost effect hydroponic tabacco farm business and selling packs for 1.50$ a pack. Once again forcing corporations to catch up with the times instead of having control while being obsolete.
At least with flat tax, no price setting the city could still make money off the massive business going to the more effecient setup with a perfectly balanced price for the times.
This is the age of renovation and revolution through effeciency. Dont a handfull of words written down somewhere stop that.....
not comparable. the little cop with the "D.D." on his shirt backs off a claim he saw garner sell a loosie, then the video shows garner putting his hands up and saying "nuh uh" os somesuch, immediatly officer choke hold puts him into a choke hold and takes him down.
Why the rush to violence?
Well let me let you in on something.
"Objective 4
a. An investigative detention is a limited seizure, is temporary.
b. Reasonable suspicion is the minimum justification for a detention: suspect that criminal activity may be afoot and that the person stopped is involved.
c. Example: Match description of a person wanted, police officer’s experience, looks as if he might be committing a crime, furtive movements. The sources of facts to build reasonable suspicion are basically unlimited as long as they are credible. The officer’s own knowledge and senses are an obvious source, but reasonable suspicion need not be limited to those. The officer may also use other sources of information. These include sources, which can be revealed, such as verbal communications with other officers, information from identified reliable sources in the community, radio dispatches, police bulletins, hot sheets, anonymous tips where the facts have been corroborated, or criminal informants who have been reliable in the past (Their identities can be protected.).
In a recent case, Illinois v. Wardlow, 120 S.Ct. 673 (2000), the Supreme Court asserted that while unexplained flight from police by itself will not produce reasonable suspicion for a detention, the flight is a pertinent factor in developing that reasonable suspicion. In Wardlow, the fact that the defendant fled police as they arrived in a high crime area was sufficient to justify the stop. There were previous decisions asserting flight as an exercise of the right to freedom of movement that, as a right, could not be used to build reasonable suspicion. Those cases have been superseded.
In another case, Florida v. J.L., 120 S.Ct. 1375 (2000), the Supreme Court upheld the basic requirements for investigative detentions and frisks as articulated in Terry v. Ohio. The Court held that a frisk cannot be based entirely on an uncorroborated, non-predictive anonymous tip, even if it turns out the tip was accurate. The Court did leave open the possibility that anonymous tips regarding serious situations such as a bomb threat, or an armed person at an airport, or about a weapon in a school would be sufficient.
d. For detention, time should be a reasonable length of time during which reasonable suspicion is maintained or strengthened. It must stop is reasonable suspicion disappears. A rule of thumb is 20 to 30 minutes. Force should only be a reasonable amount. Deadly force should never be used. Detained person should not be moved, except for safety of officer or suspect or with suspect’s consent.
e. Need to articulate a reason for using the cuffs, i.e., suspect was belligerent. State v. Pfleiderer, 8 S.W.3d 249 (1999), held that use of handcuffs in a detention situation where the officer cannot or does not articulate a reasonable justification for the handcuffing makes the detention a de facto arrest. It is presumed that the use of handcuffs is associated with arrests. Officers will need to overcome that presumption by explaining why the cuffs were necessary.
f. A frisk is authorized if the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe the person is armed and dangerous.
g. Miranda is probably required if asking guilt-seeking questions.
h. The officer can really do nothing if the suspect refuses to talk, cannot be compelled to give evidence against oneself. Some communities have "required identification" ordinances. These are of questionable Constitutionality."
CONTACT, DETENTION AND ARREST
There is case law on this.
Which neither counters nor discounts anything I've said.
I believe police officers should be held accountable as well. IN fact these police officers WERE held accountable. What pisses everyone off was that after 9 weeks of careful deliberation it was found that their was no law broken. Everyone has been stirred into a demand for justice on an incomplete video they believe shows things it demonstrably doesn't.
While I agree with your approach in theory I can't help but come to the conclusion that a lot of people, in an effort to fight back against police vigilantism have become vigilantes themselves.
Exerting ANY pressure causes the same concern. But as the video you posted indicates..I get that you think they should have beat his ass with collapsible batons and that you also believe that would not have contributed to a cardiac arrest. Now for the money question...Ya right. Squeezing the neck is definately the most taxing on a heart. Its literally like pinching off a hose and accutely increasing the pressure. Back pressure that is supposed to be flowing OUT of the heart at a defined rate. He probably would have lived if not for the neck choke.
Or had a much higher chance of living. Significantly higher. Just like if he got medical attention. But like i said these cops thought he was scum.
While I'm sure there are several videos about this very obvious display of police brutality, I think people should watch this version of what transpired between the NYPD & Eric Garner. But first. ...
Per eyewitness account, the man wasn't selling cigarettes. He had just broke up a fight before police arrived on the scene and was subsequently harassed under the suspension of selling single cigarettes, a crime in NYC.
The indie DJ makes some very valid points at the end of the video. Watch. ... No arrest pronouncement. No warning. Just straight up assault on a private citizen who did a good thing but ends up dead due to the actions of over zealous cops.
Watch. ...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Njrs5ns8nbI
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Exerting ANY pressure causes the same concern. But as the video you posted indicates..I get that you think they should have beat his ass with collapsible batons and that you also believe that would not have contributed to a cardiac arrest. Now for the money question...
What was the ONE behavior that would have GUARANTEED he not be choked, beaten or anything else?
Ah..so its the resuscitation point. OK...I can see that. I dont know paramedics were not given better access to and care of the individual EXCEPT that if he is still breathing and his heart is still beating, there isnt MUCH they could have done.In the videos i posted last page back i wonder why a cop can take the time to flush out the eyes of a kung fu guy charging at them and make sure hes ok. But the cops cant attempt to resuscitate the fat guy after using greater force than in the kung fu situation? Do people really hate fat people that much? Its because some of these ****in cops walk around thinking that these people are scum. And they dont care.
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