Yes, those who say Eric Garner was murdered by the police for selling cigs are perpetrating dangerous demagoguery. Recall the numerous assassinations of LEOs during Obama’s watch.
James Holmes slaughtered 10 people in a Colorado theater. He was taken alive, unharmed because he surrendered peacefully.
Eric Garner was a repeat offender selling individual cigarettes. He unilaterally decided that the law did not apply to him and was therefore entitled to fight the police. For that, he forfeit his life.
That the latter incident was racialized and used as an excuse to kill cops and beat up elderly veterans who happened to be the wrong skin-color is the real atrocity.
I don't remember him speaking up last summer when, all up and down the west coast, BLM and Antifa were having mostly peaceful gatherings.
I'm pretty sure the TODAY® show would have had a clip of him denouncing THOSE actions.
After all; who can resist Conan or the TERMINATOR?