I’ll play devil’s advocate here:
This guy Garner had a rap sheet a mile long. 30 arrest for the same thing. He knew the drill but in this case he says “It ends today” and resists being cuffed. He’s a massive dude 6’3 350lbs. Cop throws him in a hold that is technically not a “chokehold” more of a half choke. The whole time Garner is saying “I can’t breathe.” Well if you can talk, you can breathe. The “chokehold” is applied for at most 15 seconds. After that the other cops are one the guys back. I would have more of a problem with the way they cared for him well after he was subdued and on the ground. That was the real mistake. IMO the coroner was pretty irresponsible calling this a homicide. It’s pretty obvious that there is plenty of reasonable doubt that the “chokehold” negligently caused this man’s death, much less intentionally murdered him as the activist crowd is screaming. Prosectutor don’t seek indictments on case they can’t win so no surprise he was not indicted. The only real reason to aggressively seek an indictment is to prevent riots, but we know the rioting types don’t really care about facts or logic anyway.
Rolling eyes...
You make an excellent point. Similar to annieokie's point about impeachment: If everyone's going to riot anyway, it clears the way for law enforcement and the people to do the right thing and not be sceered of riots. Unintended consequences department, in our favor.