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)?
“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.
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.
“1. Why should selling untaxed cigarettes be illegal?”
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
Answers to questions 1 & 2.
You have to remember, this is NEW YORK CITY!!!
Everywhere Democrats rule you get screwy laws. Who knows, maybe the guy also tried to buy a Big Gulp or something. Or maybe he used salt in a restaurant.