If he possessed a small amount of marijuana in NYC, he would have received a ticket. How ironic that this happened for selling single cigarettes.
He was caught selling single cigarettes multiple times. He was a pest. He was arrested due to a tack record....not just a one time deal of selling a few ciggies
” Garner, a large 43-year-old father of six partially disabled by asthma, often sold loose cigarettes on Bay Street, a diagonal block that forms the ...”
How much you want to bet the he was a taxpayer supported porker via disability payments?
If the rational thing were done, and the cultivation and sale of tobacco and tobacco products were outlwed altogether, all the problems would disappear; all for the sake of our collective health, and this poor nut would be alive.
Why hasn't that happened yet?