[Laissez-faire capitalist]

New York law says that reckless endangerment is when conduct causes substantial risk of death or even serious physical injury.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

I thought you might be interested...

[wardaddy]

Unlike Ferguson

This one may merit further grand jury

[wardaddy]

Unlike Ferguson

This one may merit further grand jury

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

I thought you might be interested in this as well...

Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Napolitano and many others may have been right that there should have been an indictment.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I don’t know what to think of this matter, I have seen the video, but there is so much more relevant information which has not been released. Like this fellow’s specific medical history.

But, ignoring all that, and just supposing that a reckless endangerment charge had been submitted, and that the grand jury said no to all other charges, and yes to reckless endangerment, does anyone think the public protests would be any different?

...

I didn’t think so.

[2ndDivisionVet]

BLACK FEMALE Police Sergeant Supervised Eric Garner’s Deadly Arrest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3233734/posts

[SeaHawkFan]

When a prosecutor doesn’t want an indictment, he’s not going to get one.

There was an exception a few years ago when a grand jury indicted some public officials for crimes the prosecutor didn’t even present. That jury figured out the scam.

[Captain Compassion]

The officers were using standard police take down procedures. I suspect that at the time of the take down that the officers were not aware of his weakened physical condition.

[Robe]

First of all it wasn't a CHOKE HOLD, it was a “Take down maneuver" taught in the police academy.
Tell a lie ofter enough and it becomes the truth.
Second, if he's in a choke hold how can he say”I cant breath”
Third the take down maneuver lasted no more than 12-15 seconds.

Fourth, ask any cop... the first thing people say when they're cuffed is "I can't breath"because they aren't used to having their hands behind their backs, causing pressure on the chest.

[lacrew]

A black man with a long criminal record is in a white minority neighborhood committing a crime...a white police officer from a police department that reeks of union patronage...under the supervision of a black female police SGT...puts the guy in a headlock...paramedics from some other government service employee union arrive and do very little.

The man dies of cardiac arrest.

Not unsurprisingly in a city with such a strong police union, the grand jury fails to indict (seriously how many New Yorkers aren’t somehow related to a police or fireman?).

Middle aged white male republicans are blamed.

[TBP]

Interesting.

[Meet the New Boss]

Recklessness requires an even higher state of mental culpability than criminal negligence.

If the grand jury found no probable cause to support even criminal negligence, then there certainly would not have been probable cause in the view of the grand jury to support an offense requiring an even higher level of culpability.

So, this is a red herring.