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Posted on 12/03/2014 2:05:50 PM PST by blam
Colin Campbell and Hunter Walker
December 3, 2014
A grand jury announced its decision Wednesday to not indict Daniel Pantaleo, an NYPD officer who held an African-American man in an apparent chokehold during an arrest last July. The man, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, subsequently died.
Garner was being arrested for allegedly selling illegal, untaxed cigarettes in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Cell phone footage captured by a bystander shows Pantaleo with an arm around Garner's neck while six other officers helped subdue him.
Chokeholds were banned by the NYPD in 1993.
According to the Daily News, Garner's widow, Esaw Garner, reacted with shock when she was informed of the grand jury's decision.
"Oh my God, are you serious?" she said. "I’m very disappointed. You can see in the video that he [the cop] was dead wrong!"
Jonathon Moore, an attorney for the Garner family, told a local CBS affiliate he was "astonished by the decision" not to indict Pantaleo.
The decision is another major blow to activists who had called for the indictment of both Pantaleo and Darren Wilson, the officer who killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last August.
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And OBAMA has already blasted them for it
Where’s Al and Jesse and Eric?
video doesn’t work.
A man dies because of Bloomberg’s hatred of tobacco.
Bloomberg gestapoized the police force against tobacco, rather than having the police look for murderers, rapists, and drug pushers.
Sorry, still works for me. I don't know what else to do.
In this case I do think it was a wrongful death but I blame the individual cops a lot less than the city and federal government that made selling individual cigarettes illegal.
it worked on the third try. Don’t quite know what to think of it. Looked like a standard sleeper hold.
However, the man was quite large and probably attendant medical issues which might make the use of a sleeper hold quite deadly.
Has he? I missed it.
Yup.
He was resisting arrest. And the so-called “choke hold” may not have been a choke hold (which had been ruled illegal), but rather a “seatbelt maneuver”.
“”A lot will be determined by the DA (Daniel Donovan),” Mullins [president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association] said. “I don’t see it as a chokehold, it appears he was using a seat-belt maneuver. Garner refused to cooperate and resisted arrest.”
The chokehold is prohibited by the NYPD. The police definition of a chokehold involves a baton placed against the arteries of the neck where pressure is applied to stop blood flow to the head, which causes someone to pass out, Mullins said.”
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/pantaleo_officer_at_center_of.html
It worked for me also.
Its NY City. Rev. Al already fouled his own nest years ago.
And this with Bill De Blast-io (communist/Socialist/Whackjob) as Mayor. Sheesh.
Brown/Wilson was NOT brutality.
An officer was attacked, the attacker attempted to take the officer’s gun, the attacker refused commands to stop, the attacker died. Period. End of story.
A grand jury announced its decision Wednesday to not indict Daniel Pantaleo...
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Just another reason for 0 and his sheriff to use for racial injustice.
Very peculiar outcome to this case.
Then he deserved to die a very painful death.
well what about all of the white women who have been raped/kidnapped/beaten in home invasions/etc. all by black men?
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