Posted on 12/05/2014 6:50:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of a Staten Island grand jury's failure to indict New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the initiation of a retraining program for the entire New York City police force.
Eric Garner died as a result of neck compression from a chokehold that is banned by the New York City Police Department.
Bill de Blasio spoke on Wednesday night about the personal feelings he had tied with the grand jury's decision not to indict officer Panteleo, bringing up the painful talks he and his wife Chirlane have had with their black teenage son, Dante, whom they have cautioned on how to behave when encountering the police.
"I've had to worry over the years, Chirlane has had to worry: Is Dante safe each night?" said mayor de Blasio, as quoted in an AP article.
"And not just from some of the painful realities of crime and violence in some of our neighborhoods," he continued, “but safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors."
“People need to know that black lives and brown lives matter as much as white lives,” said de Blasio.
Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, as reported in the New York Times, has stated that the retraining program which will begin this month would require some 22,000 officers to complete a three-day course which will include "de-escalation” techniques. The program is modeled on the periodic required firearms retraining that all officers must undergo on a regular basis.
Following a night of protests over the grand jury declining to indict officer Pantaleo, Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, has promised a full investigation into the officer's role in the choking death of the 43-year-old man.
According to Reuters, a departmental investigation will most likely focus on whether Pantaleo indeed employed a chokehold that is banned by New York Police Department.
Which goes along with the fact that statistically the greater the percentage of minority cops, the more corrupt and incompetent the department.
It isn’t limited to either or, it can be both.
Reeducation Camp for you all !!!
That was not a choke hold, that was a head lock.
He didn’t die of “neck compression,” and it wasn’t a “chokehold,” which is an actual hold. The cop wrapped his arm around Garner’s neck to drag him off of the other cop Garner was attempting to strike, and then let him go; the coroner found slight superficial bruising at the area, but nothing that could have caused death or even injury. Garner was big and combative, but he had health problems, which of course only he would have known about at the time that he resisted arrest.
Btw, he had a long history of selling contraband (the other word for “tax free,” because the reason there’s no tax on them is that the goods are either stolen or smuggled by the mafia or various terrorist groups). He had been arrested over 20 times, without any effect on his behavior, so if they really wanted to save his life, they should have made his punishment more severe.
I think DeBlahsio should retrain the entire force for the better part of a year. This would necessitate an immediate tax increase on all who live in NYC, of course.
The NYC Police Dept. should give the ‘community’ a taste of what it feels like to not have them around quite so often.
The silver lining; NY’s finest will hate the commie mayor.
Dinkins was a”nice guy” in a city that needs a Leo Durocher.
The NYC police chief in the best Brooklyn accent:
“Mr. Mayor, it would be an absolute tragedy for any of the officers assigned to protect your son, wife or person to be distracted by the emotional pain of your recent comments toward the police brother and sisterhood. Just a few seconds of distraction could mean at least 2 deer slugs through the protected’s forehead causing further emotional trauma for that cop that is willing to lay down their life to protect and serve.”
That, too!!!
What an arrogant twit!
What the cops did in the 80’s and 90’s was just not respond to calls until after the crooks escaped unless it was an officer down call.
They have no intention of risking their lives for a communist Mayor and a hostile citizenry.
NYC just got insanely more dangerous.
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