Posted on 12/05/2014 7:38:23 AM PST by Enterprise
NYPD sources confirm that Eric Garner was a player in an organized crime cigarette smuggling syndicate, Gotnews.com has learned.
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“Garner was setting up shop in front of the local stores and shaking down business owners and patrons as they entered,” says Cardillo.
Garner would use his considerable size to strong arm largely ethnic shopkeepers and was “on the radar” of local law enforcement who had arrested him previously.
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I thought we were talking about the Garner case and resisting arrest that result in death, not any and all examples of police malfeasance. I hope you don’t think I’m saying the police never screw up. If your case was as you describe, that’s what I reserve my support for, not street hoods who choose to resist and then have things go sideways.
1. There are unconscionable taxes on tobacco products.
2. Garner was selling, unlawfully, cigarettes which weren't properly unconscionably taxed.
3. The police attempted to arrested him, and he resisted.
4. A choke hold was used which may or may not have contributed to his death.
5. He shouldn't have died. In that we agree. I think that the impetus was to arrest him because of taxes, and not because the businessmen complained about him. Personally, I also think that if he had not been involved in selling untaxed cigarettes, he would have been involved in some other illegal activity.
Just a personal opinion, but I think there should be no taxes on alcohol, soft drinks, restaurant meals, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition. I also think the taxes on gasoline should be severely restricted.
And if the Mayor of New York is really concerned about the dangers of the police to the public, he should issue an executive order to direct the police to quit enforcing the cigarette tax avoidance laws.
They seem to be relatively new. Some Freepers doubt their credibility, but I will wait and see.
I would like to see more on the organized crime angle. Is he really a “member” or is he just a regular customer who gets supplied by organized crime?
This was a huge crime. It's not a petty issue like cocaine, perjury, or Whitewater.
Do you seriously believe that is what happened.?
Let them start with the White liberals first.
I’m asking you that question since you wrote he was a “gentle giant”
To my knowledge, there was no order to execute him. Do you have information which is different?
I know he was not. I didn’t know how else to put that. I also know I bear some responsibility for choosing him. ;(
Oh BIG difference. Excuse me for feeling choked, cop knew my kids were in the car and had a baby 1 month old too. And he dragged me backwards across the yard by the neck hold, so I’m so sorry if it wasn’t quite a choke hold.
Wow...no excuses. I think I love you. I hope things are better for you now.
The kid was executed by an imbecile cop, should never have been shot and the imbecile needs to go to jail.
The guy in NYC had health issues and resisted arrest.
2 way different scenarios.
If you resist arrest, then cops WILL use whatever level of force necessary to subdue you. To do otherwise would mean that anyone willing to resist would be immune from arrest.
If you make the cops have to use force, then bad things can happen. In this case, the guy got a heart attack from the exertion.
Oh, my pleasure, because there is a big difference.
If you were in a choke hold, then you would have gone unconscious in a matter of seconds.
But since you didn’t go unconscious in a matter of seconds, it’s quite apparent to anyone who knows about choke holds that you weren’t in one.
So I figured I’d share some knowledge with you.
What especially since there is so much willful ignorance and blatant falsehood on this exact subject going around lately.
You’re welcome.
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