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The police took Garner to the ground because he was resisting arrest for an offense he had been arrested for in the past, so one cannot claim he did not understand that he was breaking the law.

Five cops to take down one man selling loose cigarettes. Nice to know that there is so little crime in Staten Island that they can devote so much manpower to violent crimes like that.

Just out of curiosity what is the penalty for selling loosies anyway?

And the cops did not kill him, his own health problems did.

If I pick a fight with someone, start wrestling with him, and he dies then I'm pretty sure I'm going to be charged with something. But then again I'm not a cop.

So the cops did not chose to make this a capital offense, as your post insinuates. Garner made his own choices and paid for them with his life.

The cops just sped him along.

Well, it could have been one cop like it was with Darrin Wilson. Yeah, the number of cops made such a huge difference.

You are just looking for reasons to bash the cops instead of placing the blame where it belongs - on Garner, a miscreant with a long rap sheet who decided to resist arrest.