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Eric Garner was standing on a sidewalk when police, who accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes, approached him.Garner, 43, told police that he hadn't sold anything and to leave him alone.
After a brief standoff, five police officers attempted to take the 400-pound Staten Island, N.Y., father of six down to the ground. Video footage from the incident shows Garner being choked from behind by one officer as the other officers attempt to handcuff him, the New York Daily News reports. Garner can be heard on the footage saying, "I can't breathe. I can't breathe."
Witnesses say that Eric Garner was breaking up a fight when police approached him about selling untaxed cigarettes. A struggle ensued, a police chokehold was applied and moments later, Garner was dead.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/video_ny_father_dies_after_being_put_in_chokehold_by_police.html
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)SamKnause
(13,106 posts)by the gangs in blue !!!!
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Makes me think we have too many officers searching for any excuse to relieve their pent up hostility toward 'civilians'.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Cops can be fucking brutal if they're in a bad mood and something rubs them the wrong way.
There is video evidence of it happening all over the place. Unfortunately for this guy and his loved ones, this time their brutality cost another life.
edgineered
(2,101 posts)we agree - I often read posts where you tell things the way they are, and I like it.
edgineered
(2,101 posts)The video will be deemed inadmissible for some reason. This will be called an unfortunate accident, etc, etc, etc.
There is no end in sight for the police state; be careful not to speak against it. Once again we will be reminded of how free we are, and lucky to be shielded from horrendous crimes like selling cigarettes.
It's happening before our eyes....smh
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Every. Goddamned. Day.
enough
(13,259 posts)Some anti-smoking nazis just get carried away in their zeal to get people not to smoke.
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)We have video proof over and over again and yet this kind of thing keeps happening. alive one minute, piled on by police and dead the next. How do they keep getting away with this?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Iggo
(47,552 posts)They're the best!
frylock
(34,825 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)bluesbassman
(19,373 posts)Then the result will be "justifiable" use of force and he'll be back on the street.
Hope Mr. Garner's family gets good representation for their civil suit.
ariesgem
(1,634 posts)They're probably on "paid suspension" aka vacation right now.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Yea Cops!!!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Please take action and demand that NYC Police Commissioner Bill Bratton immediately start the process to fire all the officers involved in this devastating police killing. Furthermore, Mayor Bill de Blasio and District Attorney Donovan have the power and the responsibility to hold the police department completely accountable.
Here's the letter we'll send NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan on your behalf. You can add a personal comment using the box provided.
I am deeply troubled by the outrageous conduct of the officers who choked Eric Garner to death in Staten Island. Garner is the latest in a long history of Black and brown New Yorkers who have unjustly had their lives cut short by police officers over the past decades. But this time the entire brutal encounter was caught on tape.
The officers involved can be seen using a violent chokehold to subdue Eric which runs counter to the NYPD's use of force policy. This brutal choking is yet another example of unnecessary police encounters resulting from policing policies and practices that target Black and brown communities, such as Stop and Frisk and now Commissioner Bratton's "broken windows" tactic. These discriminatory tactics subject Black and brown New Yorkers to constant harassment, violence and can can quickly escalate and turn fatal.
In order for these incidents to end, it is critical that a thorough and fair investigation be conducted, justice be served and all of the officers involved in the deadly altercation be held accountable.
We demand that these officers be held completely accountable for their outrageus conduct and excessive use of force.
Sincerely,
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