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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

Posted on 12/03/2014 11:28:41 AM PST by dead

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; chokehold; danielpantaleo; ericgarner; garner; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; nypd; pantaleo; riot; statenisland
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To: dead

Surprise, surprise.


21 posted on 12/03/2014 11:41:31 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Red Badger

Eric Garner had a long criminal record of over THIRTY criminal arrests and THREE cases pending for the exact same thing cops were questioning him about – selling illegal cigarettes on the corner,


22 posted on 12/03/2014 11:41:34 AM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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23 posted on 12/03/2014 11:42:37 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: dead

Oh...dear....will we now see Congressional members of the Congressional Black Caucus laying in the aisles of the House, being held in a chokehold by another Black Racist Congressperson? The problem African-Americans is with you, not law enforcement officers!!!

You folks are now all alone, politically,...in the wilderness...put there by yourselves and your leaders, Obama, Holder, Sharpton, the CBC, the NAACP and the Obamabot Democrat Party!!!

The vast majority of the American people have your number!!! Your criminal lie game....folks is up!!!


24 posted on 12/03/2014 11:43:24 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

The guy was resisting arrest.


25 posted on 12/03/2014 11:43:41 AM PST by dforest
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
"Thugs lying in wait?
This guy (allegedly) sold untaxed cigarettes. That’s it. That is the “crime” that led to this incident."



My point being that typical, regular, law-abiding, decent, and honorable people (who might very well be on a Grand Jury) do not wish to have their hand "forced" due to concern whether an angry bunch of thugs will riot.
26 posted on 12/03/2014 11:44:02 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: navysealdad

Won’t make a bit of difference to the rioters...............


27 posted on 12/03/2014 11:44:21 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: dead

Uh oh.


28 posted on 12/03/2014 11:44:33 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

That - PLUS resisting an officer.


29 posted on 12/03/2014 11:46:19 AM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: navysealdad
Eric Garner had a long criminal record of over THIRTY criminal arrests and THREE cases pending for the exact same thing cops were questioning him about – selling illegal cigarettes on the corner,

1. Why should selling untaxed cigarettes be illegal?

2. How is his record at all relevant to what happened? How does it justify the use of a chokehold (which is specifically prohibited by NYPD regulations)?

30 posted on 12/03/2014 11:46:20 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: dead

I think the cop was very wrong. Whether criminal i do not know. But, the city will need to pay the family. I would be totally upset if this happened to anyone in my family.


31 posted on 12/03/2014 11:46:28 AM PST by therut
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To: bigdaddy45

ROFL good one and let us not forget “Pants Up, Don’t Loot”.


32 posted on 12/03/2014 11:46:28 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: dead

Legalize loosies!


33 posted on 12/03/2014 11:47:09 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dforest

Watch the video. At most, he was passively resisting arrest. Does not justify the use of a chokehold (which, again, is specifically prohibited by the NYPD).


34 posted on 12/03/2014 11:47:20 AM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: dead

I’m all choked up


35 posted on 12/03/2014 11:48:06 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“1. Why should selling untaxed cigarettes be illegal? “

Because the people of the State of New York have passed a law making it so. That’s why.

That, and they must be smuggled across state lines - most likely from here in North Carolina. Cigarette smuggling from low tax states is a huge business in the USA.


36 posted on 12/03/2014 11:49:18 AM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: navysealdad
Eric Garner had a long criminal record of over THIRTY criminal arrests and THREE cases pending for the exact same thing cops were questioning him about – selling illegal cigarettes on the corner,

I didn't realize that it was a capital offense.

37 posted on 12/03/2014 11:49:18 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Did the choke hold kill him? Was the cause of death strangulation?

Just asking


38 posted on 12/03/2014 11:49:41 AM PST by dforest
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Patrick Lynch, president of the PBA, has consistently maintained that Pantaleo performed a seatbelt hold rather than a chokehold on Garner during an attempted arrest which precipitated the 43-year-old father’s death on July 17 in Tompkinsville.


39 posted on 12/03/2014 11:49:45 AM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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To: Gay State Conservative

It looked to me like the guy was resisting being searched. Apparently, the hold was some sort of legal variant of the now-illegal choke hold, what a FoxNews guest just described as the “seatbelt maneuver”


40 posted on 12/03/2014 11:50:05 AM PST by etl lll
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