Posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:10 PM PDT by PoloSec
(Video has been removed from JP and youtube...)
A 400-pound Staten Island dad of six, suffering for asthma, died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, according to a video of the incident published on The Daily News website.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, is heard screaming after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he resisted an arrest.
Within moments Garner stopped struggling and appeared to be unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene.
The Staten Island resident was sitting in front of Bay Beauty on Bay St. and Victory Blvd. just before 5 p.m. when two plainclothes cops began questioning him about selling untaxed cigarettes, the Daily News reported. he started yelling at the cops that he was innocent.
A guy, who shot the video below, tried to intervene, telling the cops his friend had just broken up a fight between three men and had not been selling cigarettes. But when backup uniformed officers arrived, the cops moved in to cuff Garner, the video shows.
“Don’t touch me, please,” he said. When Garner refused orders to put his hands behind his back, one of the plainclothes cops got behind him and put him in a chokehold, the footage shows.
Three uniformed officers joined in on the arrest, knocking him to the ground. He screamed, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe! Get off of me, get off of me!” several times before he went silent.
In a statement on Friday, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito called for a “full, transparent and thorough investigation into the incident which led to the death of Eric Garner. New Yorkers expect and deserve to be safe and those protections must include those who are in the custody of NYPD.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement, “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Garner, who died yesterday afternoon while being placed in police custody. We have a responsibility to keep every New Yorker safe, and that includes when individuals are in custody of the NYPD. That is a responsibility that Police Commissioner Bratton and I take very seriously. We are harnessing all resources available to the City to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the circumstances of this tragic incident. The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is working closely with the Office of the Richmond County District Attorney, which is leading this investigation.”
The mayor will have a press availability at City Hall this afternoon, before he takes off for vacation in Italy.
Part of the problem is there are WAY WAY too many laws on the books. We’ve given the cops too many excuses to turn people’s lives upside down. For no good reason.
The answers to your question, are not clearly in the video.
The fellow who recorded the video, says that the deceased had broken up a fight.
The government showed him what happens when ya fail to obey, didn't they wideawake?
I knew you were attempting to blame the black man for what occurred here from your very first disgusting post.
You'd support government and those on their payroll regardless.
This is nothing new with you.
When someone says they aren't going to comply with an arrest, should the cops say: "Hey, bro. Not in the mood to come down to the station? I totally get it, dude. Here's our address - when you feel like stopping by, we'll have a holding cell ready for you."
What should they have done? Just let him take charge of the situation? Defer to his "feelings"?
Is this Eric Holder?
See #41. Do we really need protection from evil cigarette salesmen?
I don’t think so wideawake.
You’re not asking the questions here...
It’s more of your BS evasiveness distraction and deceit, while attempting to deflect from your initial disgusting post here.
It was clear with your first post you were laying blame to what occurred not on the cops warlike, obey or else tactics, but the black guy who they literally choked to death...
Obey or die...I’ve seen your pro-biggov comments before.
I reread the story again.
So, the police thought that the guy had been selling cigarettes illegally. Did the police have proof, that he was selling cigarettes illegally?
My concern here is, were the police in the process of making a formal arrest? or did they want to handcuff the guy so that they could continue their investigation to see if he had been engaged in illegal activity?
The handcuffs should only come out if the cops are in the process of making an arrest. I have seen too much of this where the cops handcuff someone for their own safety as the continue to troll for evidence.
If it turns out that this man was not engaged in illegal activity, then these cops should all go to jail. This, ‘Us’, against, ‘Them’, mentatlilty must end...
Something his lawyer could have raised in court, in fact, if he had acted rationally.
Not to mention if he hadn’t been killed.
It USED TO BE that the local citizens could convene a grand jury w/o the blessings of the judiciary.
Just regular people.
Not anymore...
(they still can in six states)
The standard for detaining someone is, and always has been, "probable cause."
I bet his concern was they continued choking him to death after he repeatedly gasped the words, "I can't breath" over and over.
Except, of course, that he wasn’t.
Keep posting here wideawake.
I want everyone on the forum to watch the video and read your comments.
Give him a call. See if he answers.
A homicide, even a negligent homicide, is based on the accused having a reasonable expectation that the dead man would die as a direct result of his action or inaction.
Every year many, many hundreds of big guys who resist arrest find themselves in a choke hold.
Very few die of a massive coronary.
It would fit your racial obsessions perfectly.
It also shows, I'm sure you would agree, a poor and saintly man brutalized by evil policeman for absolutely no reason.
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