Looks like excessive force, especially when the man said he couldn’t breathe. Some would fake it, but apparently not him. Manslaughter. Reckless, but, not racial.
This was not a Michael Brown situation.
Minutes after Bodden addressed the media, PBA President Pat Lynch showed up to defend the NYPD. “You did not hear the private medical examiner say that they saw signs of asphyxiation. What they saw is compression to the neck, which is consistent with the medical treatment that Mr. Garner would have received by EMS, would have received in the emergency room at the hospital.”
Lynch said that the police followed proper protocol when trying to detain Garner.
“It’s a seat belt maneuver. It’s a take-down maneuver where a shorter police officer is trying to take down a taller man to the ground,” Lynch said. “You reach up, one arm is under the armpit, the other is around the shoulder, a struggle ensues while we are bringing him down to the ground, not a chokehold and it’s not consistent with a chokehold.”
For the record...if you can SAY "I can't breathe", you can breathe.