So has Blaz dismissed his NYPD bodyguard then?
What a fun detail that must be.
De Blasio’s protection detail is on the order of latrine duty in Army boot camp. Assigned as punishment for infractions of some of the more egregious rules of the current City Hall cohorts.
If the officers in question had not been out there enforcing a rule set into place by the paternalistic City Council (prohibition against selling “loosies” or single cigarettes at a time), Mr. Garner would have just been doing a little “street capitalism”. No different, really than most other street vendors. Some of which have licenses to do so, others of whom do not.
But foolish or not, enforcing the prohibition was part of the law, and if you don’t like the consequences of the law, change it.