Look closely. Pressure is being applied to the side of the neck, not the windpipe. Garner is not being choked.
They never mentioned her race because race doesn’t matter in a colorblind United States. Neither does the race of anyone else in the story.
Holder: Keep this crisis going!
A lot of facts with this case being ignored. He should have not resisted. Stupid insane law by the liberal establishment, can’t talk about that either, can they.
Shhhh. You’ll mess up the narrative
Yes a black female sergeant was on the scene. The officers were ordered to arrest Garner by a black precinct commander after receiving numerous complaints from black storeowners whose businesses were suffering as a result of Garner selling loosies. And to top it off Garner had been arrested 30 times prior for selling the untaxed butts and he knew the drill, only this time he decided to resist.
Cigarettes and taxes, and a city that revels in the collection of such while simultaneously trying to keep people from using it.
As far as I’m concerned, there wasn’t any reason for this man to die, and I don’t care what kind of takedown a LEO would describe it, when he says over and over, “I can’t breathe” I don’t care if his actions required putting him in a position that might cause death - the cops aren’t there to kill him. Even police chases are sometimes terminated when life and property are in harm’s way.
As far as I’m concerned, they killed him needlessly with no regard for his life. If I were on the jury in a civil suit, the NYPD would be shelling out multiple millions in a wrongful death award.
Black sergeant, white sergeant...doesn’t make any difference IMHO.
If the cop applied a legal hold, then it doesn’t make any difference. If the cop applied an illegal hold, then it was done too quickly to make any difference. This is something that was played out in seconds, not hours.
It would only make a difference if the sergeant ordered the hold. And I doubt very much that that happened.
Look at the tattooed leg and arms of that one LEO goombah....
How can sergeants, present on the scene, be given immunity from the ongoing actions of patrol officers?
It would be different if it was one shot, one punch, but this was a chokehold continuing for something like a minute.
It makes no sense at all for a supervisor to get immunity when under his/her command commits a wrongful, ongoing action witnessed and unchecked by the supervisor, especially in any profession where there are very clear lines of authority and hierarchy - law enforcement, health care, education, military.
“From a police report reported by PIX11 in July, the sergeant’s name appears to be Kizzy Adoni.”
Kizzy? Parents must have been big fans of “Roots”
That’s why this isnt going to lead to any big blow up.
Either you side with the black male victim of AmerKKKa or the “strong black sister”.
Either way, you better just walk away.
But Race is not the question if the officers used excessive force and to the issue of how politicians order police to "vigorously" pursue pretty crimes.
NYPD was criminally cleared but still face a wrongful death suit (offset by physical health of the victim and his resisting arrest). It does not help the family to bring race into a civil suit because it raises the bar for the plaintiff.
Look closely. Pressure is being applied to the side of the neck, not the windpipe. Garner is not being choked.
It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes news media, including Fox News, to report this.
“Having that black sergeant in charge of that crime scene takes race out of the equation.
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It’s all about the color of the skin, not what’s inside as Martin Luther King said.
Kizzy. As I recall, that was Leslie Uggams?
I bet this Kizzy in the NYPD is mid thirties.
Rush was all over this his first hour. That, and other details not put out in the media...in particular New York’s creation of the very black market in which Garner was participating...and the fact that the police use-of-force problem really does not exist save for the media hype (only the use of police to enforce the draconian cigarette laws in the City, which directly led to the Garner confrontation).
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Appropriate or not for the hold and swarming the petty criminal is probably decided by what happened before the choke hold. Unfortunately, every video I have seen seems to skip over the critical transition from talking with a clearly agitated big guy to taking him down with an arm around his neck. Since the video was released to make the police look bad, I’m wondering why the video omits that portion of the events.
If Eric Garner attempted to resist or attack a cop, then I’m all for taking him down. If the cops just wanted to work off a little aggression, then it was a criminal act. In the absence of video evidence (when video before and after are both available), I’d have to accept police testimony on their reasons for taking him down and accept that this was an unfortunate but not illegal event. That makes it far different from Michael Brown, where I join many innocent victims in being glad the thug is dead.