[The KG9 Kid]

I’m flabbergasted that New York City places undercover police on the beat to identify unregulated street transactions of tobacco products and to arrest unlicensed tobacco merchants up to and including the use of deadly force at police discretion.

I just can’t get my head around it, yet New Yorkers seem accustomed to “Stop And Frisk” police policies without probable cause. Why should any of them be surprised when a policeman chokes an illicit cigarette merchant to death?

They wanted more big government, they got more big government. This is what more government looks like: Strangling a man to death over what’s basically worthy of a public citation. Maybe they’ll kill a man selling 17-ounce soda cups next.

This is also why those of us in the Western US states don’t want any mother-f’ing New York City billionaires messing around with our state laws.

[RayChuang88]

I think unlike the Michael Brown case, the Eric Garner case will get way more universal condemnation because Garner did not represent a physical threat to anyone and the way NYPD cops tried to subdue him, you'd think he was a armed and dangerous criminal. And we have video evidence of the attempt to subdue him, too. There's going to be a LOT of questions asked at NYPD headquarters over this horrible debacle.