I was also at a peaceful pro-life event (in DC) where people were seriously maltreated by the cops simply for being there..probably at the express orders of Bill Clinton and the Democrat leaders. So I don’t automatically support the police - but they only do what they are told to do.
Eric Garner was just a multiple petty offender (although I believe he had a drug sales conviction in his background) who flipped out when he was being cited. The reason he was being cited was that the other BLACK residents of the neighborhood had asked NYPD to crack down on all the petty illegal activity on their street, because it was attracting thugs, dumb pre-thug minors, hookers, and the usual crowd and making it unsafe for reaidents.
Accoring to Al_Baby at #51, there are sometimes issues with blacks dying in chocking situations where a white person wouldn't die, because of 20x more blacks having Sickle Cell Trait than white people, and the Sickle elss impairs their ability to recover from constriction of arteries and so forth. Lord have mercy.
This is a case where I thing the Grand Jury should return an indictment just so the community can get all the facts. Not the whole purpose, but of the purpose of a trial, I think, is so that the citizenry can be satisfied that justice was done.