Posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:10 PM PDT by PoloSec
(Video has been removed from JP and youtube...)
A 400-pound Staten Island dad of six, suffering for asthma, died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, according to a video of the incident published on The Daily News website.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, is heard screaming after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he resisted an arrest.
Within moments Garner stopped struggling and appeared to be unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene.
The Staten Island resident was sitting in front of Bay Beauty on Bay St. and Victory Blvd. just before 5 p.m. when two plainclothes cops began questioning him about selling untaxed cigarettes, the Daily News reported. he started yelling at the cops that he was innocent.
A guy, who shot the video below, tried to intervene, telling the cops his friend had just broken up a fight between three men and had not been selling cigarettes. But when backup uniformed officers arrived, the cops moved in to cuff Garner, the video shows.
“Don’t touch me, please,” he said. When Garner refused orders to put his hands behind his back, one of the plainclothes cops got behind him and put him in a chokehold, the footage shows.
Three uniformed officers joined in on the arrest, knocking him to the ground. He screamed, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe! Get off of me, get off of me!” several times before he went silent.
In a statement on Friday, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito called for a “full, transparent and thorough investigation into the incident which led to the death of Eric Garner. New Yorkers expect and deserve to be safe and those protections must include those who are in the custody of NYPD.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement, “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Garner, who died yesterday afternoon while being placed in police custody. We have a responsibility to keep every New Yorker safe, and that includes when individuals are in custody of the NYPD. That is a responsibility that Police Commissioner Bratton and I take very seriously. We are harnessing all resources available to the City to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the circumstances of this tragic incident. The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is working closely with the Office of the Richmond County District Attorney, which is leading this investigation.”
The mayor will have a press availability at City Hall this afternoon, before he takes off for vacation in Italy.
You almost never hear of a 400lb man having a heart attack.
that is pretty damning..
Seems like in a lot of these cop-induced deaths, the suspect is usually resisting arrest.
What your reaction be if you can’t breath?
Resisting arrest is not supposed to be a capital offense. Especially in the days of mace, tasers, etc.
Earlier today was the guy shot and paralyzed for unpaid parking tickets. Now selling cigarettes. vA killing people to save bonus money. The govt needs to be put back in its place.
...or adrenaline-pumped-up steroid-crazed cops ignoring a man in a choke-hold pleading that he can't breathe.
Oh, wait...
Leni
even fat people have right to breathe
I used to have the impression that resisting arrest or assault on an officer required some aggressive action on your part.
Not anymore, simply failing to respond quickly enough, mistakenly brushing the officer with your hand as you put your hands behind your back, or trying to breath will result in charges or in this case, death.
You must follow orders, that is more important and individual safety or life. /s
Oh but de Blasio is a communist, so no one is going to criticize him.
He was a BIG dude. Even skinny he’s still be hefty.
Watched the video.
All the police present at the last of his breathing, should be charged with criminal negligence. They should be stripped of their badges and all official and personal weapons of all kinds; their homes to be searched for all weapons of any kind, and removed.
The investigation should determine if any of the cops had 1st and/or 2nd degree criminal intent, and if evidence is found, so apply the charges.
They all get their day in court; and a jury decides their fate.
As the same cops would have such for any “other persons” who strangled, suppressed, and refused aid to a man whom such “other persons” held to the ground.
Cops are **not** different, **nor** special. They have lost all *benefit of the doubt* status, by their own, several and grossly negligent misdeeds over the last decade.
If the cops are found “not guilty,” then and only then, do they get to appeal for the return to their jobs ... but **never** the return of their weapons, as a reminder of their failure and the loss of life.
Sound harsh? It is nothing less, than what they impose on good citizens; and, they did kill the man.
Asthmatic, 400 pnds and having his oxygen cut off.
What could go wrong?
Seriously, what was the imperative to bring him down right there and then? (Rhet)
Yoos guyz get paid a salary and overtime. This guy wasn’t armed and you had zero interest in hearing him out.
So he has a record. He’s still a citizen and you guys, more and more, seem like thugs.
You could have talked him down and waited for cooler heads to prevail.
But, being as you’re city boyz you like to wrastle steer to the ground and get your jollies.
problem with most of you pussies is that most of us are compliant or try to make our case and you take advantage of our respect for cops and our muted response to your aggression.
For sure, if you had no badge things would go down differently.
JBT Ping?
A recent video linked here on FR showed a cop strangling a handcuffed subject to unconsciousness. Prisoner was under the control of another officer and not resisting.
Why? Part II
Because **NONE** of those cops can be trusted. They are **not** good cops.
A good cop would have called in “Fred” (or whatever the guy’s name is), whose a wise man and who would just stand there and talk with the man in question.
A good cop would have deflated an **OBVIOUSLY** deflate-able situation, because what the man in question seeked, was simply an honorable man to stand there and reason the thing, the situation.
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