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BREAKING: NYPD Confirms # Eric Garner Was A Member of Organized Crime in Staten Island
gotnews.com ^ | Dec 3, 2012 | Charles C. Johnson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at gotnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chokehold; chokeholdtimeline; cigarettesmuggling; cigarettetax; cigerettes; crime; ericgarner; ericgarnervideo; organizedcrime; shakedown; strongarm; taxes
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To: Shimmer1

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.


121 posted on 12/05/2014 12:39:01 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
IMO, greed killed Garner.

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.

122 posted on 12/05/2014 2:53:56 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: ilovesarah2012

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.


123 posted on 12/05/2014 2:56:18 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: slumber1

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.


124 posted on 12/05/2014 2:57:48 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: kidd

They seem to be relatively new. Some Freepers doubt their credibility, but I will wait and see.


125 posted on 12/05/2014 2:58:55 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: jimbug

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?


126 posted on 12/05/2014 3:01:21 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234029/posts


127 posted on 12/05/2014 3:01:42 PM PST by samtheman
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To: HamiltonJay

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234029/posts


128 posted on 12/05/2014 3:02:39 PM PST by samtheman
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To: nascarnation
"Oh I though this meant he was an associate in the “Clinton Crime Family”"

This was a huge crime. It's not a petty issue like cocaine, perjury, or Whitewater.

129 posted on 12/05/2014 3:03:02 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234029/posts


130 posted on 12/05/2014 3:03:56 PM PST by samtheman
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To: armydawg505
"So the order went out to execute him?"

Do you seriously believe that is what happened.?

131 posted on 12/05/2014 3:04:57 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: MeshugeMikey
"meanwhile the Congressional Black Caucus is ready to HANG all the white people In NYC... "

Let them start with the White liberals first.

132 posted on 12/05/2014 3:06:08 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

I’m asking you that question since you wrote he was a “gentle giant”


133 posted on 12/05/2014 3:14:32 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

To my knowledge, there was no order to execute him. Do you have information which is different?


134 posted on 12/05/2014 3:23:21 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: tuffydoodle

I know he was not. I didn’t know how else to put that. I also know I bear some responsibility for choosing him. ;(


135 posted on 12/05/2014 11:55:49 PM PST by Shimmer1 (No punishment is too great for the man who builds his greatness upon his country's ruin.G.Washington)
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To: chris37

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.


136 posted on 12/05/2014 11:58:00 PM PST by Shimmer1 (No punishment is too great for the man who builds his greatness upon his country's ruin.G.Washington)
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To: Shimmer1

Wow...no excuses. I think I love you. I hope things are better for you now.


137 posted on 12/06/2014 2:59:21 AM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: HamiltonJay

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.


138 posted on 12/06/2014 3:07:32 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: armydawg505

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.


139 posted on 12/06/2014 3:09:36 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Shimmer1

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.


140 posted on 12/06/2014 7:24:34 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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