Then he deserved to die a very painful death.
Who said he deserved to die? And what leads you to believe the death was intentional?
Are you aware he died of a heart attack? He was in the neighborhood of 400 lbs.
What if this 400-pound guy had died of a heart attack as a result of being handcuffed, as opposed to the hold? Would you still consider it murder? He did die of a heart attack.
From Pix11 News in New York...
“PBA President Pat Lynch showed up to defend the NYPD. “You did not hear the private medical examiner say that they saw signs of asphyxiation. What they saw is compression to the neck, which is consistent with the medical treatment that Mr. Garner would have received by EMS, would have received in the emergency room at the hospital.”
Lynch said that the police followed proper protocol when trying to detain Garner.
“It’s a seat belt maneuver. It’s a take-down maneuver where a shorter police officer is trying to take down a taller man to the ground,” Lynch said. “You reach up, one arm is under the armpit, the other is around the shoulder, a struggle ensues while we are bringing him down to the ground, not a chokehold and it’s not consistent with a chokehold.” ...”
“He was resisting arrest.
Then he deserved to die a very painful death.”
He was potentially a public menace, possibly interfering with the collection of taxes. So, he deserved to die. </MASSIVE BARFSARC>.
To the orignal poster; So, I visit NYC, and a bum asks me for a cigarette. Not knowing the local customs, the guy seems polite and I give him one. A cop wrestles me down, won’t tell me what I did, and he kills me. I have a problem with this - both the idiotic law, and the gestapo enforcers of it. Frankly, if I lived there, I’d be in the street over it. This is not a BLACK issue although the powers that be are trying to make it look like one, because that, they can pay off easily.