Posted on 12/04/2014 3:37:33 PM PST by robowombat
Eric Garner Would Be Alive If He Was Not Obese, Says Rep. Peter King, Thanks Grand Jury For Decision By Suman Varandani@suman09s.varandani@ibtimes.com on December 04 2014 12:44 AM Dec. 3, 2014. Reuters/Stephen Lam Peter King
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said Wednesday that Eric Garner would not have died from the chokehold if he was not obese. Facebook/Peter King NY protests
Rep. Peter King said Wednesday that Eric Garner would not have died from a police chokehold if he had not been obese. (He was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 340 pounds.) King’s comments come after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death of Garner, a move that has triggered protests across New York City.
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The U.S. representative for New York's second congressional district reportedly said during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Garner’s health was to be blamed for his death. King also dismissed video evidence that showed Garner repeatedly saying he could not breathe as officers tackled him to the ground and choked him, stating that "police had no reason to know that he was in serious condition." The chokehold has been blamed for suffocating Garner, causing his death.
"If he had not had asthma, and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died from this," King reportedly said.
"The fact is if you can't breathe, you can't talk," King reportedly added. "If you've ever seen anyone resisting arrest, I've seen it, and it's been white guys, and they're always saying, 'You're breaking my arm, you're choking me, you're doing this,' police hear this all the time."
In August, the city’s medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide and one that was caused by pressure to his neck and chest. Garner’s acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity and hypertensive cardiovascular disease were contributing factors in his death, the medical examiner ruled.
Garner was allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes on Staten Island in July when NYPD officer Pantaleo put him in a chokehold.
King also took to Twitter on Wednesday thanking the grand jury for its decision.
Wednesday’s decision sparked unrest in New York City and has drawn comparisons with last month’s grand jury decision not to indict white Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri.
Protests continued Wednesday night as several demonstrators marched the streets of New York, while some blocked roadways and torched several vehicles, including a police cruiser. Police reportedly said early Thursday that a suspect had been taken into custody for setting fire to vehicles.
Police reportedly closed New York’s Triborough Bridge, officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, in an attempt to block protesters. Late Wednesday night, reports also emerged of police arresting protesters who were staging a sit-in on the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking traffic in both directions.
resisting arrest played a much bigger part
Where’s Michelle?? Why hasn’t she invited the family to a “Let’s Move” party.
So Bloomberg was on to something by banning junk food and large sugary drinks. Too bad this gentle giant didn’t get with the program.
"If he had not had asthma, and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died from this," King reportedly said. "The fact is if you can't breathe, you can't talk," King reportedly added. "If you've ever seen anyone resisting arrest, I've seen it, and it's been white guys, and they're always saying, 'You're breaking my arm, you're choking me, you're doing this,' police hear this all the time."More to the point, and despite claims by some FINOs in FReepmail that it is inevitable, I've reached my mid-50s without being in great physical shape, and NOT ONCE have I been put in a choke hold by a cop.
When cops are resisted, bad things can and do happen sometimes.
How would cops know this man hadn’t just committed a murder down the street? Or, that he had a reason not to be arrested.
Most racist post I’ve seen on Free Republic in a long while
Peter King is a dolt willing to go after the low hanging fruit but just remember where he stood when Ted Cruz was standing up for the country against Obamacare. King called Cruz a fraud and said he was bad for the party.
fwiw, it wouldn’t surprise me if Holder and Obama somehow manipulated this grand jury decision to keep their race narrative alive.
Fat and stupid is not the way to go through life, son.
So in other words keep yourself in shape so the police brutality doesn’t kill you.
There are so many laws on the books that all of us break many each year and it’s at the whim of cops and prosecutors which of us get busted and when.
Fair chance it’ll be you or your family one day. Maybe you’ll get a cop who keeps shouting “stop resisting!!!” when you aren’t resisting at all as they choke you out and you die from a heart attack. They say you didn’t die from asphixiation, but lack of oxygen can cause heart attacks.
When you die they tell your family it’s a real shame you were fat, or a smoker, or had complicating health problems.
At least they stopped the terrible crime of loose cigarettes, or improperly transferred firearms, or transporting a listed plant or degrading a wetland or...
Sorry if you don’t like the simple truth I get the displeasure of living around every day.
He’s absolutely right that when, in fact, you can’t breathe, you can’t SAY you can’t breathe! Been there too often.
Maybe because you don’t sell cigarettes.
He could not have possibly have said that.......he said that he would be alive if he was not obese? What does that have to do with anything. That is incredibly rude. Figures he is from New York.
When did this happen? Date and time please........
Are you a Christian?
Yep and see post #9, pretty well spells it out. I don’t like cops but I know when they say stop to do so. I do miss the days gone bye when the cops understood that they were there to keep the rabble like this heap of blubber from bothering the people who paid the cops their salary.
So now he’s a murderer? Maybe they should just shoot everyone on that basis.
Unfortunately it has been like this for awhile. Most FREEPERS here are Atheists....clearly.
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