After HE stupidly ignored the police command to put his hands behind his back, choosing, rather to say this ends now.
Why aren’t illegal sale of single cigarettes just handled with a ticket like overtime parking? Sending a phalanx of cops to arrest a guy for selling single cigarettes seems like a total waste of police resources that could better be used to fight serious crime.
Organized crime.....when you compete against organized crime in the city of New York the politicians, by way of the cops, are going to mess you up..!
We seem to be moving toward a political system where only the rich will be able to enjoy the pleasures of life... Soon only the rich will own homes...and only the rich will drive cars... Everything else will belong to the GOVERNMENT and the elitist who own it..!!!
Land of the free...home of the brave....I guess the joke is on us... :(
silly question, someone bought a whole pack of cigarettes.
They paid a tax then, why are loose cigarette sells limited?
I know the pack has a tax stamp on it, but this is pretty stupid. How does a bar sell a single beer? Single glass of wine?
Just a side thought: if I buy a pack of cigs, the tax has been paid, so why can’t I do what I please with them, whether it be smoke them, eat them, sell them one by one, or stick them up my butt? Its not like people buying loosies are going to start buying whole packs anyway, and if I can’t sell them as such I am less likely to buy a pack. Seem like a counterproductive law.
Enough of this Sean Hannity type of nonsense. I think this line of argument takes away from the real point.
Solicitors who sell anything in public, who do so in front of other people's retail stores are a nuisance. When Giuliani became mayor he created special police units to crack down on ALL soliciting, for both legal and illegal items. Does anybody remember when squeegee guys would solicit business by cleaning windows or when sidewalk vendors overran many areas.
People didn't like that and police units were created to sweep from the streets those nuisances.
Garner was a nuisance. The merchants who's stores he used to stand in front of and hassle the customers called the police as they have done numerous times before. The police responded. Big Government didn't call the police. The citizen merchants did.
Sure Big Local Government does like its tax receipts. But let's keep it real here. Garner wasn't a tax rebel hero. He was a big fat nuisance and the citizen merchants who played by the rules didn't like that, so they called the police.
I thought Garner bought the cigarettes at retail, and simply was reselling the individually?
If so, they weren’t “untaxed”.
Nonsense, this wasn’t a special arrest method taught to cops to use if the arrest is cigarette based.