"It's a little strange to hear petty demagoguery like that from Krauthammer. Not unprecedented but strange. One could also say "He was selling loose cigarettes, which in and of itself is almost absurd to resist arrest over."
An excellent point. It's a shame this guy died, and the justification for what the cops did is nowhere near as clear cut as in the Michael Brown case. But whether it was over a petty law or not is irrelevant.
Garner was resisting arrest, and he WAS doing that BEFORE the chokehold was applied. I can understand panic behavior once his airway was cut off, so to me it's important to consider that he was resisting arrest before that happened. Did he panic immediately when surrounded by cops? That's possible, too.
That pretty much sums up my feelings about it. The only other thing is that all four cops did nothing when he complained that he couldn’t breath so if one is indictable then all are indictable IMO.