Officers Daniel Pantaleo and Justin Damico were both put on desk duty a day after the death of Eric Garner.
Number 99 clearly applied an improper (and illegal) choke hold.
By the way, what's with all the tattoos on that one cop in the baggy shorts and tee shirt. The guy looks like a gang banger.
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(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.