NO Charges for Officer Eric Garner for Chokehold

Under the circumstances, the police officer used excessive force AND a banned subdual maneuver, resulting in the unnecessary death of a civilian. No matter how the guy was acting, chokeholds are not allowed. The officer used one, the guy told him he couldn't breathe, and then died from it. That's the real issue here, and is why they need to fire that officer.

So your contention is that the illegal chokehold had NOTHING to do with his death?

Since you are such a champion of law, justice and truth, what is your opinion that the chokehold that was applied by the cop is against the rules and regulations of their own department?

How come you are always advocating that civilians must abide by the rules but a cop that applied an illegal chokehold is absolvable?

Did you see the video?

He was selling cigarettes - A single cig for 50 cents. That was his only crime.
He put his hands up right away.
He had knees in his back and his face pushed into the sidewalk while in a choke hold.
The Choke hold is illegal in New York.
He said 8 times that he couldn't breathe.

Those cops over reacted. At the least, they should have been suspended or had their wrists slapped with some kind of training. These white cops killed a black guy, again, and got away with it, again.

No wonder people are freaking out.

Just saw the video. Cops over reacted.

RIP

You fucking dumbass. He put his hands up saying "don't touch me" and was clearly resisting. He didn't put his hands up saying "i surrender" or "ok, cuff me, i understand" and this guy had constant run ins with police, constant arrests and it wasn't their first rodeo with him, or fist time trying to arrest him either.. a fact which the video obviously doesn't show and which you're all too willing to ignore.

No one can say the police over reacted without fully understanding their prior interactions with him and how he acted.

Seems to me they were operating with a great deal more knowledge than a foreigner has from a youtube video.

People talk all this shit about US police as if there is a problem. Those people have obviously never traveled. In 1/2 the countries in the world, he would have raised his voice to police and then promptly been drug around the corner and had his head kicked in.

All they were trying to do was put handcuffs on him and HE made that a problem, not the police. A grand jury heard all the evidence and agreed. End of story.



100% false. But then again, you aren't swayed by facts no matter how much you want to pass yourself off as a "man of science".

stupid police

Just watched a quick story about this case on our local news station.

Interesting to note that many of the "small government" advocates are usually silent when things like this happen...or they even support this type of government behavior .

I was living in Manhattan at the time. That and the Dialo story were both HUGE.

Actually the medical examiner said it and called it a homicide. I think possibly he knows better.

whoa.. you know how to throw a party!

did you see the actual coroners report?

That would be the NYPD

He said the choke hold killed him directly? - I very much doubt it, unless he broke or seriously damaged something in his neck...

Think about it - You can't suffocate someone in a few seconds.....

How about asking him to put his hands behind his back, and he doesn't comply then you tase him? The dude wasn't resisting at all and didn't seem threatening whatsoever.