> The police have no choice in the matter but to enforce the law. Anything less, and you get Baltimore every time. <
Agreed.
> Eric Holder’s medical condition was such that his death was inevitable, even if they didn’t use a choke hold to bring him down. <
Here we must disagree. The chokehold is prohibited in the NYPD. So the cops involved must, at a minimum, be fired. And it goes back to what you said. Laws - and regulations - must be enforced to avoid chaos.
And who can say if Garner’s death was inevitable? A chokehold is a nasty thing (I know from personal experience). There has got to be a way for multiple police officers to subdue a resisting man without risking killing him.
Yeah, his medical condition made him surprisingly fragile for such a big guy. If 6 officers had piled on him to bring him down, without the choke, he would have probably died from compression on his chest from those 6 officers.