the guy broke up a fight ... i’m not sure why the officers felt the need to subdue him and choke him out.
what exactly were they ordering him to do that he wasn’t complying with? and did he need to comply?
this one stinks to high hell ... it was inadvertent, but looks like manslaughter to me. this did not need to happen
I’ll play devil’s advocate here:
This guy Garner had a rap sheet a mile long. 30 arrest for the same thing. He knew the drill but in this case he says “It ends today” and resists being cuffed. He’s a massive dude 6’3 350lbs. Cop throws him in a hold that is technically not a “chokehold” more of a half choke. The whole time Garner is saying “I can’t breathe.” Well if you can talk, you can breathe. The “chokehold” is applied for at most 15 seconds. After that the other cops are one the guys back. I would have more of a problem with the way they cared for him well after he was subdued and on the ground. That was the real mistake. IMO the coroner was pretty irresponsible calling this a homicide. It’s pretty obvious that there is plenty of reasonable doubt that the “chokehold” negligently caused this man’s death, much less intentionally murdered him as the activist crowd is screaming. Prosectutor don’t seek indictments on case they can’t win so no surprise he was not indicted. The only real reason to aggressively seek an indictment is to prevent riots, but we know the rioting types don’t really care about facts or logic anyway.