The real culprits responsible for this senseless death are the mayor and his police department for having a policy of arresting people for such a minor trangression.
Why isn’t anyone putting Mayor de Blasio. on the hot seat over his stupid policy of wasting valuable police time on arresting someone for selling a cigarette?
If his street police force wasn’t ordered to spend their time on such an insignificant misdemeanors Eric Garner would still be alive.
How many policemen were involved in taking down this one man for a crime less serious than Jay Walking?
Are all the other more serious crimes so well under control and the Mayor is having trouble keeping the street police busy?
Let’s say you owned the store that Eric stood in front of selling single cigarettes.
Let’s say your customers kept complaining to you that they wouldn’t come back because this guy kept harassing them about buying cigarette every time they went in or out.
Let’s say that you asked him to quit 30 TIMES over 30 days, and he kept coming back.
What would be your next step ?
Why isn’t anyone putting Mayor de Blasio. on the hot seat over his stupid policy of wasting valuable police time on arresting someone for selling a cigarette?”
Winner!
Right on!
“The real culprits responsible for this senseless death are the mayor and his police department for having a policy of arresting people for such a minor trangression.
Why isn’t anyone putting Mayor de Blasio. on the hot seat over his stupid policy of wasting valuable police time on arresting someone for selling a cigarette?
If his street police force wasn’t ordered to spend their time on such an insignificant misdemeanors Eric Garner would still be alive.
How many policemen were involved in taking down this one man for a crime less serious than Jay Walking?”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/03/actual-facts-Eric-Garner
The Arrest. It is vital to separate out the actions of the police from the rationale for their action. That’s because by virtually any logic, it is the height of irresponsibility and depravity for a man to end up dead for selling loose cigarettes.
The law that led to this confrontation was pressed forward by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Garner had been arrested some eight times for selling “loosies.”
As Lawrence McQuillan reported in The Washington Times:
In January 2014, tough new penalties for selling untaxed cigarettes took effect in New York City. In July, emboldened by the new law, the city’s highest-ranking uniformed cop, Philip Banks, issued an order to crack down on loosie sales days before Garner died.
So in terms of police cracking down on Garner, the real responsibility lies with Bloomberg and NYPD Chief Bill Bratton. Idiot laws lead to meaningless deaths.
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“...for having a policy of arresting people for such a minor trangression”
Do you have any idea how much liquor, cigarettes and DVDs/BluRays are sold illegally.
The movies are HD and perfect - just no menu, scene selection or anything of that sort. The movie just starts.
The liquor is dirt cheap, and are name brands (Southern Comfort, etc).
Same for the cigarettes.
It is a *massive* market.
Sounds like what you can expect from a socialist/communist administration: Violent crime can run rampant, but any action that short changes the city on some tax revenue will be dealt with severely.
“How many policemen were involved in taking down this one man for a crime less serious than Jay Walking?”
I posted the following in an earlier thread. It may provide an answer to your question:
I heard a caller to an NYC radio station today, who claimed to be a cop in that Staten Island precinct, state that NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks (Who resigned in October after 28 years) was at a community meeting in that SI neighborhood the morning of this incident. Allegedly, at this meeting local shop owners complained to him about the amount of un-taxed cigarettes being sold in the area. The cop said that Chief Banks instructed the local precinct commander to do something about this ASAP. He in turn put pressure on his officers to deal with the situation, which this cop interpreted to mean make some arrests. That is why, he claimed, the 4+ cops responded to the incident along with the sergeant. Obviously, there is no way to know if this is true, but if it is it could explain why the POs were so adamant about arresting this guy. If true, I wonder if the Grand Jury heard about this?
“The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism, public drinking and toll-jumping helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening.”