“. I believe the police overreacted with Eric Garner.”
The police did not “over react” in the Garner case. Eric Garner was a career petty criminal who had been arrested dozens of times. He and the police officers knew each other by name. The bosses on the scene were Blacks who knew Garner and had arrested him before. The cops were there to arrest him because of a complaint from a minority man who owned the store Garner was standing in front of while he was selling loose un-taxed cigarettes and killing his business. Garner was GROSSLY overweight and KNEW he had asthma. All Garner had to do is submit to a lawful arrest and he would still be illegally selling un-taxed loose cigarettes today.
I don’t consider selling untaxed loose cigarettes a major crime. I believe they could have handled it better. And what happened in the past shouldn’t have played a major role in this situation.
I believe the officers should have made a little more effort to talk sense into him before getting physical with him. That’s just my opinion. I’ll add that I am not always right. I am just not sold on the way the officers reacted in that case.
Other than that, we should all be supporting our officers in uniform.