Grand Jury Declines to Indict NYPD Officer in Eric Garner Chokehold Death: Sources

www.nbcnewyork.com ^ | Dec 3, 2014 • Updated at 2:28 PM EST | Andrew Siff and Jonathan Dienst

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A New York City grand jury has declined to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold case of Eric Garner, the unarmed man who died while being arrested on Staten Island earlier this year.

In opting not to indict, the panel determined there was not probable cause that a crime was committed by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was seen on a widely watched amateur video showing him wrapping his arm around Garner's neck as Garner yelled, "I can't breathe!" during the summer altercation.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Biggov is the cartel. No others are allowed.

Exactly! Yet there are so many "conservatives" here who cannot see that the cops are the enforcers for the Biggov Cartel.

[Chickensoup]

One thing taught in restraints classes is that people can talk as they suffocate. Sad but true.

If someone is saying that they cannot breathe believe them.

[dforest]

I don’t think he was choked because he could speak. I do think that the episode caused his death if he had asthma.

I have asthma and if I have a flare up it would not take a lot to stop my breathing for good.

[Mrs. Don-o]

THanks for this information. I didn't realize that.

I don't know anyting about various kinds of compliance techniques, come-along hold and legal vs illegal maneuvers, so I'll have to pass on that.

I was thrown face-down to the ground and put in flex cuffs once (peaceful pro-life protest) and the cop gave the cuffs an extra furious sharp tug to tighten them AFTER I said they were too tight. I developed a blackish-purplish injury on my wrist and couldn't feel anything in my thumb for over a month afterwards. Not that that "means" anthing in this case, except I know what it feels like to be subjected to too much force when I wasn't resisting --- and nobody giving a flip.

I did not see the video, but it seems it would have served public justice to indict so all the facts would be in the open, and the police officer would have a chance to --- if innocent --- clear his name. And if he is guilty of some sort of criminal ngligence, he should face the consequences.

[driftdiver]

The police should not be spending time arresting people for selling cigarettes let alone killing them for it. Regardless of their skin color.

[God luvs America]

i may be in the minority here but i completely agree with you...

[Rome2000]

OK, and the MAYOR is an EFFIN COMMUNIST operating under an assumed name.

WHEN IS WARREN WILLHELM GOING TO PRISON?

How about that Neutron Bomb?

[driftdiver]

I find the idea of police killing someone for something so trivial to be offensive.

Apparently you’re ok with it.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

You’re siding with big government and the union goons who fund them.

[machogirl]

What are these agitators going to do when innocent people are killed?

Listening to this guy narrating on ustream probably is a 20 something who has NO IDEA how bad these protests can turn in a minute.

I am getting the feeling that there are some aging Bill Ayers-hippie-types egging this on as a continuance of the 60’s.

[Rome2000]

The police should not be spending time arresting people for selling cigarettes let alone killing them for it.

Have you ever been to NYC?

They have freedom screwed downed there pretty tight.

[livius]

Go away. The guy died because the other (BLACK) people on the street had complained about the cigarette and drug selling activity on the street, asked NYPD to enforce the laws, and Garner was out getting his second citation for the same thing and for some reason resisted arrest.

[concerned about politics]

NYPD officers used way too much force trying to physically subdue Garner, who was not a physical threat to anyone.

From what I saw on the video, they followed police protocol. They told him he was under arrest. He resisted. They tried to cuff him. He resisted. Step three is to take him down for resisting arrest and get those cuffs on him.

It's a shame the man was so large and in such bad health, but there's no possable way the police could have known that. Had it been another, the man would have survived with nothing but a few scratches.

[livius]

He wasn’t a victim. Like Michael Brown, he was a huge heavy guy with a lot of arrests, and for some reason, he suddenly became uncontrolable, even though this was not a major arrest. But it was his second citation for this particular violation... and the reason the police were there was because the other residents of the neighborhood had actually asked NYPD to shut down the cigarette selling activity, since it attracted low lifes and also a lot of the sellers were also engaged in drug activity.

The other black people in that neighborhood should come out and support the police. Except that they’ll probably end up dead, like the first black witness in Ferguson.

[dforest]

I never said I was okay with it. More facts are coming out and I am not sure why this Grand Jury made this decision.

Good night.

[beef]

I agree as well. Unlike Ferguson, the police here probably went too far.

[fatima]

I used to think I new you.Not anymore.

[fatima]

Knew.

[concerned about politics]

The distrust of the system and of normal people is a result of the routine corruption that we’ve come to expect because nobody will ever stand up to it. We’ve learned the system cannot be trusted and people are stupid. So we all feel defenseless.

Two socialist university professors, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven formulated and published what they called a "plan for manufactured crisis," or as it is more commonly called today, the Cloward Piven Strategy, with that exact goal in mind.

[Eagles6]

Actually I take these on a case by case basis.