(1) Al Sharpton is on the case, reluctantly holding press conferences. It is officially a full blown race hustle now. Luckily, New York's new mayor is a veteran race hustler and is happy to join in.
(2) Not only are the police on desk duty, the EMTs at the scene have been suspended. So the full leftist kangaroo court is firmly in session.
(3) The autopsy shows that Mr. Gardner experienced zero trauma to his throat or neck: no bruising, no vertebral displacement, no tearing of ligatures, no internal trauma to the trachea.
The cause of death looks like a plain old heart attack, possibly complicated by his asthma - but possibly not. Possibly not because he was still breathing in the ambulance and because he did not have any asthma medication on him.
This is important, because the hold he was put in was quite obviously not a "choke hold." Here's a hint: if you actually can't breathe, you are not physically capable of saying "I can't breathe." If your trachea is closed - the entire point of an actual "choke hold" - you are rendered unable to verbally complain, as Mr. Gardner did.
(4) The EMTs are on suspension because no one filmed them performing CPR at the scene. They point out that he was unconscious but breathing when they put him on the ambulance - in other words, they did not need to resuscitate him because he was breathing. But political posturing trumps the boring physical facts of reality.
(5) Mr. Gardner, father of six and unemployed, midday sidewalk loiterer, had only been arrested 31 times before. Some of those arrests hadn't even been felonies - some of them were only misdemeanors, as his family helpfully pointed out. So it seems unlikely that the "shock" of being arrested for the umpteenth time was as much a contributing factor to his demise as his last Big Mac was.
It would be great to see the part of the video that was edited out, but it seems like the story is not as exciting as people wanted it to be.
A morbidly obese small time crook is arrested for the 32nd time, goes into cardiac arrest during the police arrest, and dies of a heart attack on the way to the emergency room.
Turns out the problem was not his throat, but his overtaxed heart.
That's odd, as you saw nothing wrong with this incident and suggested on June 18 in post #2, he killed himself due to being overweight. Your mind was made up way back then. Support agents of the government regardless. Remember? I had you dialed in.
Now those who caused his sudden death go into slander mode, as you parrot it, attempting to bring up his past, using the media to broadcast his past loitering and past minor arrest, as if it had anything to do with this incident or man's death. Why did you do that? It's what the media told ya to do right?
It's OK to discredit the victim by digging up his past in an effort to make him look like the guilty party? You have now parroted his past and brought it up multiple times.
Is it also OK to discredit NYC due to it's past corruption?
How about the mountain of police corruption, the endless lies, bad shooting, bad cops, bribes, and endless falsified police reports and falsified court testimony wideawake?
Who is guilty of more serious crimes and corruption by a series of magnitudes wideawake? Would it be Eric Garner or New York City and their police department?
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