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Yeah... because being in a violent choke hold gasp for breath and fearing for your life wouldn't induce a heart attack... :lol:
That's not what I meant - obviously only a few NY cops were part of this and would be indicted.
It appears that only one NYPD officer was offered up to the GJ to take the fall. That may be exactly why the GJ refused to indict only that single NYPD officer, perhaps the GJ believed that he was simply a small part of what led to the man's death and thus not singly criminally responsible for his death.
It stinks.... my gut just says this is wrong.
It is also wrong to resist arrest, without which there would have been no cause to try to use any force at all. Basically daring police to touch you places the ball in their court. It would seem, after 30 prior arrests, that this guy should know better than to try to resist.
It's not a civil rights thing. It's not a dem vs. repub thing. Each incident must stand or fall on it's own merits. Ferguson and Brown is not the same as NY and Garner. IMO they got Ferguson right and they got NY oh so wrong. Everyone in NY should be frightened of the NYPD not getting indicted for Garner's death.
I didn't see resisting. I did hear him say at least 5 times saying he can't breathe.
Watch that video again and you just might notice the difficulty that the officers had in cuffing him. That ability to speak 5 times indicates that he could breathe. Try holding your breath and talking. He died of a heart attack likely brought on by the stress of physically resisting arrest.
It stinks.... my gut just says this is wrong.
No doubt this is a surprising ruling. I don't get it. But I'm willing to wait until more facts come out before I overreact, and it's so stupid to make this a racial issue every time. I swear that's all some people think everything comes down to.
I didn't see resisting. I did hear him say at least 5 times saying he can't breathe.
When he continued to resist arrest he became a threat.
The cops primary focus in these situations is control. If the suspect appears to be on the verge of becoming uncontrollable then the cop is going to do something to regain that control. Ideally that escalation will be a stepped response and only enough force to regain control will be utilized. In my experience that's exactly what you saw in the video.
Did you watch the video? You call that resisting arrest?
The idea that this man died from a group attack by four police officers - one who sneaks up behind him and applies a barred chokehold to him - for the capital offense of selling loose cigarettes simply is something that no writer in any movie would dare pen for risk of being laughed from the room. But here it is just the same in real life and the cop walks free.
Amazing. Simply amazing.
Yes, he was resisting arrest. He started resisting arrest when he verbally refused to submit to being arrested.
The, "choke hold", didn't kill him.
Yes, he was resisting arrest. He started resisting arrest when he verbally refused to submit to being arrested.
**** them. They can take their alpha-male, bully attitude and stick it up their ass as far as I'm concerned.
I generally side with the cops. But not on this one. I can't believe these Rambo wannabe's got away with this. Well, actually, I can.
It won't be long before the populous starts shooting back if they don't get a grip on their dominance obsession. Homey don't play dat ****.
I'm glad I'm a law abiding citizen and I don't have to cow-tow to these mother****ers.
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What will be the reaction in NYC tonight as another grand jury chooses not to hand down an indictment for a white police officer who killed a black man who resisted arrest?
So he deserved to be choked to death? Which chokehold is against the law in NY?
Based only on what I saw in the video, I sure don't understand why the cop wasn't charged with SOMEthing.
AND ... I know the death was declared a homicide from the chokehold BUT also that Garner had asthma, HBP, and was obese which they said also contributed to it.
Maybe that had something to do with the GJ decision.
Here we go....
This is how BS false narratives like " hands up dont shoot " get their beginnings.
He wasn't choked to death. The Coroners report proves that.
So he deserved to be choked to death?Which chokehold is against the law in NY?
Here we go....
This is how BS false narratives like " hands up dont shoot " get their beginnings.
He wasn't choked to death. The Coroners report proves that.
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